It is crunch time for Sweden.

They have played four World Cup qualifying matches, but have just one point to their name. Direct qualification is already out of the question - Switzerland or Kosovo will take that.

On October 14, Jon Dahl Tomasson was sacked as head coach. "Football is results-based and we have reached a point where results are not enough," said Kim Kallstrom, the nation's Head of Football.

Now, to have any chance of securing a place in the play-offs in March, they must win both of their matches across the next week against the Swiss and Slovenia.

"At the beginning of the campaign, there was such a positive sense about Swedish football," former Sweden defender Jonas Olsson tells Sky Sports .

"We have probably the best team since Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Freddie Ljungber

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