Probably because most people in the football world have a good grasp of the still only 21-year-old attacking jerk after he scored goals for Dortmund in recent years, which meant that he will play in Manchester City from next season.

But the Swedish national team's opposing guards Tom Prahl and Roger Sandberg, who were present at the Marakana Stadium in Belgrade, will probably have a lot to share with national team captain Janne Andersson ahead of Sweden's meeting with Norway in the Nations League at Friends arena on Sunday.

Left volley

For example, that it is not possible to give Norway such areas as in the 27th minute.

In a quick attack along the right wing, right-back Marcus Holmgren Pedersen, Feyenoord, came forward.

The 21-year-old's input on the empty surface was perfect.

There came an onrushing Erling Braut Haaland, who had no problem scoring a national team goal number 16 in the 18th international match with the help of a left-wing volley.

Already nine minutes earlier, however, Haaland could, and perhaps should, have cracked the goal zero.

He came completely free, but did not get the ball right and the right shot went over.

In the 67th minute, Norwegian national team captain Ståle Solbakken chose to pick out his attacking star.

Probably with Sunday's Sweden meeting in mind.

Norway and Sweden will then also meet next Sunday in Oslo.

Ineffective Serbia

Serbia, which Sweden in between will face at home next Thursday, then?

Well, national team captain Dragan Stojkovic's team - which, unlike both Norway and Sweden, qualified for the World Cup in Qatar - clearly had the most of the ball, won the corner statistics with 12-0 and created the most chances.

But the efficiency of Serbia, with Fulham star Aleksandar Mitrovic at the helm, loose with his absence this time.

Norway, on the other hand, closed quite deservedly again on the defensive, not least thanks to goalkeeper Ørjan Nyland, and was able to pack a nice premiere victory before the meeting with Sweden

Shared pot in the Iberian summit

A Portugal without Ronaldo in the starting eleven against Spain at home in Sevilla.

It turned out to be a good match and ended in a rather unexpected draw.

But the Spaniards were closest to victory and had 1-0 until the 82nd minute when Ricardo Horta equalized for Portugal.

Spain played the best football and took the logistical lead after a pattern attack where in the end Morata was able to roll the ball behind


Diogo Costa.

Morata also had bids for more goals.

With 64 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending.