Football Soccer – Euro 2016 – Sweden Training – Parc des Sports Leo Lagrange, Saint-Nazaire – 8/6/16 – Sweden’s players attend training. Photo: REUTERS/File
PARIS: Ireland and Sweden meet in the Euro 2016 Group E opener at the Stade de France on Monday where a win would go a long way to redeeming their past failures in the championship and getting them to the knockout stage.
Drawn in a tough section with Belgium and Italy, a victory is of paramount importance to both sides’ fortunes.
“The team that wins this game has a very good chance of progressing,” Swedencoach Erik Hamren told …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times
