Injured Amanda Zahui and Regan Magarity and covid-affected Louice Halvarsson are already missing, all over 1.90 long and important pieces under the baskets.

Sweden has been forced to switch to a smaller team, with basically four guards and a larger player, with a quicker game and shooting from the outside. It also means more pressure on established names like Kalis Loyd and the twins Elin and Frida Eldebrink, the latter with 136 international matches and one of the leading scorers of all time in the national team.

"It's uncomfortable"

Today's morning training, however, had to be carried out without the Spain professional, who limped into bath slippers with a nasty abrasion under his left foot and a clear pain.

- It is uncomfortable, not entirely optimal to train on.

It has been a week or so ago, she says and shows a real redness in the hollow foot.

"Had it been the European Championships, I would have run on"

Now it becomes airing, relieving and treating with ointment.

However, the European Championship premiere in Valencia is eight days away, a key match against the group's perhaps weakest opposition Slovakia, which still gives hope for a good cure.

She can not train fully, but will still have time to test some sessions in the future.

- And if it had been the European Championships right now, I would have driven on.

It's a bit at half speed right now, but I do not feel worried, says Frida Eldebrink to SVT Sport.

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Frida Eldebrink.

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