Sweden prepare for Austria showdown

Sweden are preparing for Wednesday's friendly with Austria with a few players from the american tour called up. 

This squad includes 3 home-based players with veteran Daniel Andersson (Malmö) and Rasmus Elm (Kalmar) included. Their is a call-up for Adam Johansson of IFK Göteborg who impressed during the tour last month. 

However Henrik Larsson and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are not in the squad. Olof Mellberg is included along with Andreas Grandqvist and Erik Edman. 

Viktor Elm is also included following an impressive start to his Heerenveen career. 

Mexico 0-1 Sweden 29th January 2009

Mexico 0-1 Sweden

Sweden ended their American tour with a narrow 0-1 win over continental heavyweights Mexico in Oakland. Sweden opted to start John Alvbåge in goal and the Orebro no.1 made a few saves. Mexico managed by fellow Swede Sevn-Goran Eriksson threatend and fielded a strong line-up that included Matías Vuoso. But both sides were using the game as an exercise with Mexico facing the USA in the world cup qualifiers later. 

Mexico: Oswaldo Sanchez (g.k): Diego Martínez, Leobardo López, Edgar Dueñas, Fausto Pinto: Lucas Ayala, Pavel Pardo, Leandro Augusto: Alberto Madina, Matías Vuoso, Israel Martínez subs: Guillermo Ochoa (g.k): Juan Carlos Valenzuela, Julio Cesar Dominguez, Zinha, Carlos Ochoa

Sweden: John Alvbåge (g.k): Patrik Anttonen, Mattias Bjärsmyr, Rasmus Bengtsson, Adam Johansson: Daniel Andersson, Alexander Farnerud, Andreas Johansson, Rasmus Elm: Daniel Nannskog, Martin Ericsson subs: Johan Dahlin (g.k): Markus Jonsson, Marcus Lindberg, Samuel Holmén, Andreas Landgren, Andreas Dahl, Max Von Schlebrügge, Denni Avdic, Mickael Dahlberg, Gustav Svensson