“Shaqiri is not Neymar, Xhemajli is not Coutinho, must be eliminated Switzerland”

It's so good to be true. Sweden is on the face of sixteen finalists and will meet Switzerland. Are we dreaming?

We don't want to show disrespect, we know that the Swiss have a good team on this World Cup. But Switzerland is not Brazil. Gerdan Shaqiri is not Neymar, Blerim Xhemajli is not Coutinho and Manuel Akanji is not Theago Silva. We really believe Switzerland is a team that needs to be defeated. From our perspective, we are the favourites, Blic “reported”, the Periscope broadcast.

In recent years, Swedish football has been strange. When Zlatan Ibrahimovic resigned and Janne Andersson took the lead in Sweden, we thought we would wait long to participate in the big tournaments. Maybe we'll defeat Norway or Finland, but not anymore. We've had problems with Ibrahimovic, how could we play without him?

But something happened. Janne Andersson, this typical Swedish coach who's always been in Swedish league, created a team spirit we've never seen before. Players like Ola Toivonen and Sebastian Larsson, who were formerly subjected to jokes, have suddenly become giants. Andreas Granqvist is in defense like Franz Beckenbauer once. It's magic!

And yes, we beat France in qualifications, eliminated Italy and now we've won the death group. We still don't know how everything happened. But now we are full of faith. Now we can beat any team.

When it was clear that we'd meet Switzerland in round 16, we laughed about it. Because we're supposed to go against Brazil. And frankly, we were convinced that we had beaten Brazil. We're so crazy right now. Because now we know, we're better off without Zlatan. We'll show you next Tuesday. /Periscopi/