With a net worth of 460 million euros, he lost three consecutive games in the preliminaries. Sweden was humiliated and placed at the bottom. The two top players were humiliated.

Written by Han Bing The team has a total worth of 460 million euros (the same below), ranking 9th in Europe. It has two forwards, Isaac (120 million euros) and Jokelesh (75 million)... Such a luxurious Swedish team actually suffered 3 consecutive losses in the World Cup preliminaries group stage. After losing 0-1 at home to Kosovo on October 13, they only accumulated 1 point in 4 rounds, completely missing the top two in the group. Although it can still rely on qualifying for the UEFA Nations League to participate in the qualifying play-offs, the sluggish state makes it difficult for Swedish fans and media to hope.

This summer, Isaac (145 million + 11.5 million floating clause) joined Liverpool with a total of three transfer fee records for Liverpool, Premier League and Swedish players. In addition, Jokelesh joined Arsenal with a transfer fee of 63.5 million + 10 million, making the value of Swedish players reach unprecedented heights. In October, the Swedish team was worth as much as 460 million, higher than the Norwegian team with Haaland and Serlot, slightly lower than the European Red Devils Belgium, and maintaining its leading position in the second tier of European national teams.

However, the Swedish team, with its two forward superstars worth a total of 200 million euros and transfer fees, actually suffered a humiliation of 1 draw and 3 losses in the World Cup preliminaries group stage. The home loss to Switzerland, ranked 17th in the world, was excusable, but the double defeat by Kosovo, ranked 91st in the world, was completely intolerable. On October 13th at home in Gothenburg, the starting 11 of the Swedish team, led by Isaac and Jokelesh, were worth 326 million, which was 8.6 times that of the Kosovo team (43.8 million), but they ended up losing three games in a row.

The Swedish team had the upper hand in ball possession (67%), shots (13 to 7), shots on target (6 to 4), and corner kicks (12 to 0), but could not knock on the door of the Kosovo team. On the contrary, in the 32nd minute of the first half, Aslani, a forward from Kosovo worth only 8 million, scored the winning goal. The Swedish team's legendary Danish coach Tomasson made three substitutions at halftime. Ilanga, who joined Newcastle United for a high price of 61.5 million this summer, and Barcelona's 19-year-old star Badji (worth 10 million) played, but it still didn't help.

Isak, whose net worth and transfer fee are both "100 million+", together with Jokeles, the three-time Golden Boot winner in the Portuguese Super League, UEFA Nations League and Europe last season, were in terrible shape throughout the game. Isaac had 6 shots and 2 on target, and Yokelesh had 2 shots and 1 on target, both of which were goalless. Both players only had one dribble and lost the ball as many as 12 times. The two great forwards have scored and assisted twice in 3 consecutive games. The Swedish team also suffered 3 consecutive defeats with zero goals in the same period. They have been winless in 4 games and are at the bottom of the group with only 1 point. This is the first time that the Swedish team has participated in the World Cup and European Cup qualifying group matches for a total of 36 times since the 1934 World Cup. It has lost four consecutive games and has the worst record in history.

The Swedish team with two strikers at the front only has stars but no team. The whole team has almost no decent cooperation, and the midfield creativity is lackluster. The two forwards made transfers in the summer, which seriously affected their form. In the year from June last year to June this year, Isaac had 6 goals and 2 assists in 8 games for the Swedish team, and Keles had 9 goals and 3 assists in 6 games in the UEFA Nations League group stage. His form was completely different from the last 3 games. Although the Swedish team has locked in the play-off qualification through the UEFA Nations League results, the top priority is to defeat Slovenia at home in November to avoid the historic humiliation of finishing at the bottom of the qualifying group stage.

Coach Thomason was wildly criticized by the Swedish media and social media after the game, but he insisted on not resigning and "blamed" the poor record on the team: "We conceded goals that we shouldn't have conceded and seemed to have forgotten how to score goals. The team's poor performance was due to everyone. "It's the responsibility of the coach." When asked whether it was the coach's responsibility to ensure that the team played at the appropriate level, Thomason actually said: "It is my responsibility, but I cannot play for the players."

As a traditional second-tier team in Europe, the Swedish team has only qualified once in the last four World Cups, in 2018. This time, even with two rounds left in the qualifying group stage, it has created the worst result in the qualifying rounds in team history. In the last World Cup qualifiers, the Swedish team entered the play-offs with 5 wins and 3 losses from 8 games, and was eliminated by the Poland team led by Robert Lewandowski. In the European Cup qualifiers two years ago, the Swedish team also ranked third in the group and missed the qualification. If the performance continues to decline this time and stops in the play-offs, it will not only create the team's worst performance in the World Cup with only one appearance in five consecutive World Cups, but will also miss the finals of the competition three times in a row for the first time since 1984-1990.

The Swedish star's value and transfer fee have skyrocketed, but what awaited him is the free fall of the Swedish team's performance. It is really an irony that the contrast is too strong.