The mentality of both teams this match will surely be focused on attacking and trying to score GOALS.

An Italian team playing offensive? Surely you are joking. :>

My money is on draw!

do swedes even play football ? :>

Of course we do. Made the final playoffs in the last world championship in Korea/Japan, beating out Argentina and England.

we won it in 94 too =)

that was bronze right?

no that was gold, -94 in USA

wtf are u smoking? Swedes won the World Cup? Haha, funny guy, Brazil won in 94 beating Italy 3-2 on penalty kicks.

They were third though.

erhm...im prolly mixing things up here which would be pretty imberrasing, what the hell did we win in -94 then?

Olympic hockey :) and bronze in world cup soccer. those were the days..

no, no im really embarresing myself now but sweden did won gold in soccer in some event which i apperantly have forgotten in USA -93 or -94.... you know the song, när vi gräver guld i usa... just tell me the event so i can take it all back or edit my damn posts =)

(prolly the olymic, wouldn't suprise me)

hehe, vi gräver guld i usa was the song when we won the bronze in soccer world cup. they wrote the song before the event so they didnt know we would just finish 3rd you know =)

why the hell would we be so proud and cheery over a stupid bronze? swedes r stupid when it comes to sport i tell ya

Err, bronze, don't make us look like fools please.

You are t3h crazy!

bronze it was.

Well bronze in world cup soccer is still pretty impressive, esp for sweden.

YOU GUYS GOT OWNED BY BELARUS IN HOCKEY SALO SUX, HAHA =/

Yea but the fact of the matter is that Sweden are through to semi finals and russia.. where are they? :P

You talking about this years hockey world championship?

I don't really give credit to those, I was talking about last years olympics, those were exciting. These world championships basically come down to whoever has the most NHL'ers on their team, therefore slovakia, sweden, czech republic and canada are in the final four. I think Slovakia will take it again since they are the most packed team (nhl-wise). Russia only had 2 solid nhl'ers on the roster (Datsyuk and Kovalchuk), and both are very young with not a lot of experience, thats why Russia didn't go far.

Russia haven't won ANY big tournaments since -92 (with NHL players or not). So plz.

the juniors won last year :)
that was all fare, no nhl players on any team there.

true, I'm sure they will many gold medals for you in the future :)

and also, at least russia could beat belarus at the 02 olympics unlike some other team i know...

Go Juve! :)