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To open this year’s World Cup, Sweden hoped for a straightforward contest against, on paper, the easiest team to beat in Group G in South Africa. It didn’t go that way, with the Swedish escaping that contest Wellington by the skin of its teeth with a win. Sweden needed a 90th-minute Amanda Ilestedt goal to get all three points. With Italy and Argentina on the horizon, the Swedish were thought to have a bumpy road to even reach the…
