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Euro 2016 Ireland Vs Sweden 13th June Preview Kick Off Time Head To Head Prediction

Ireland will face the Sweden in their first match of Euro 2016 on June 13 at the Stade de France in Paris. Both these teams are from group E.

Republic of Ireland v Sweden - 2014 World Cup Qualifying European Zone - Group C

Ireland will enter their third Euro tournament but never has managed to qualify for the knockout stages. This Irish team’s biggest acheivement came way back in year in 1990 where this team managed to appear at the 1990 FIFA World Cup Quater final.

Ireland Vs Sweden 13th June Preview

In 2012 group stages Ireland lost all the matches of group stages and had a very dissapointing Euro Championship 2012.

Meanwhile, Sweden will be participating in their 6th Euro Champioship Cup and this is the 5th successive Euro Cup for Sweden since 2004. This time Sweden would like to give some solid performance in this year’s Euro Cup.

Ireland is unbeaten in their last 5 matches and has managed to score single goal in their last 11 matches. Ireland has played 3 warm up matches, out of that 2 matches against Netherland and Slovakia resulted in the draw but they were defeated in their last warm up match against Belarus.

Whereas, Sweden are undefeated in their 9 last matches out of 10 matches and this is a good performance from this team.

IRELAND PREDICTED LINEUP( 4-3-2-1)

Randolph – Brady, Clark, O’Shea, Coleman – McCarthy, Whelan, Hendrick – Hoolahan – Long, Walters.

SWEDEN PREDICTED LINEUP(4-4-2)

Isaksson – Olsson, Lindelof, Granqvist, Lustig – Forsberg, Ekdal, Kallstrom, Durmaz – Berg, Ibrahimovic.

HEAD TO HEAD

These both teams have faced each other for 10 times and out of that Sweden has won 5 matches, while Ireland Has won 3 matches and the remaining 2 matches resulted in draw.

PREDICTION

Ireland is the team who is in good form and just loses two matches since November 2014.

Sweden depends heavily on their big gun Zlatan Ibrahamovic who need to fire if Sweden want to open their account in this tournament with a win.

Meanwhile, My prediction is a draw for thsi match as both the team can surprise each other will their good display of play.

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