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The Swedish Football Association (Swedish FA) will report to the police after their striker Marcus Berg was victim to a storm of abuse on social media for missing an open goal in his side scoreless draw with Spain at Euro 2020 on Monday. Several abusive comments were posted below pictures on the 34-year-old’s Instagram account after he skied a second-half shot over the bar with the goal at his mercy before being substituted along with Alexander Isak who made the chance.
Martin Fredman, the security chief of the Swedish team said, “I have spoken to Marcus just now, we’ve set down and collected what’s on the internet, or what we can find, and it’s more than enough to feel that it has gone over the boundaries that we can accept. So the next step is to go further with a police report, and the police are prepared to hear from us.” Berg’s team defended him strongly after Swede’s dour but effective stifling of Spain in their Euro clash.
Swedish goalkeeper Robin Olsen told reporters, “It’s so ridiculous, I’m not even going to invest energy in it. I and everyone else in the team know how important ‘Mackan’ (Berg) is for the team. It’s incredibly low to be carrying on like that. He knows that I and the rest of the team have his back.” The Swedish team will face Slovakia on Friday.