Elise Kellond-Knight says an ‘everyone is a winner’ mentality sets up failure on the big stage.
Sweden are perennial tournament bridesmaids, with their shattered captain Kosovare Asllani lamenting - after her team’s 2-1 semi-final loss to Spain - that she was “so tired of crying championship tears”.
They are also familiar opponents to the Matildas, having knocked Gustavsson’s side out in the semi-finals at the Tokyo Olympics, as well as facing Australia on three other occasions in recent years.Elise Kellond-Knight thinks Sweden has a big chink in their armour.“Everyone is a winner and having that mentality as a kid going through your youth processes, you don’t have that added dog edge to you and that’s what you need. You need the killer instinct,” she said.
“It’s a mentality thing. I spoke about this on the Seven commentary. Both teams get a player of the match.“They’re a socialist country where everything is OK and everyone wins at the end of the day … and I think just not having that added mentality we see with the Americans or the champion teams, they are missing that link.The value of the tournament’s penultimate match, which will be held at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium on Saturday, is often debated.
England delighted in claiming third place in 2015 but, after losing to Sweden four years later, then-coach Phil Neville declared it a “nonsense game”.
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