Despite a qualifying campaign in which they slumped to four defeats and finished bottom of their group, Sweden are one game away from qualifying for the World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada thanks to a process that offers teams a number of second chances, Reuters reported. 

Sweden were so bad in Group B that they finished fourth behind Switzerland, Kosovo and Slovenia, with whom they drew twice, and they flopped so badly in their first four games that coach Jon Dahl Tomasson became the first men's head coach to be sacked by the Swedish football association (SvFF).

"It just feels like an amazing opportunity. We have the opportunity because what the team did in the Nations League. So we are where we are, and now we've got one game to play to get to the World Cup, which is a dream," Graham Potter, who took over after Tomasson, told a media conference on Monday.