Chiellini can be a swine - Ekdal
Sweden international Albin Ekdal has fond memories of his time alongside Giorgio Chiellini at Juventus, but has warned the defender can be "a swine" on the pitch ahead of his country's euro 2016 encounter with Italy.
Ekdal joined Juventus from Brommapojkarna ahead of the 2008-09 campaign to become team-mates with Chiellini, before leaving the Turin side for Siena the season after.
"Chiellini treated me, maybe not as a little brother but like a youth team player," Ekdal told Expressen.
"He drove me to training when I didn't have a driving licence and so on.
"On the pitch he can be a swine, though. He knows that himself but then everyone wants a player like that.
"We will have to try to wind him up but he is not an unwise swine. He doesn't do much off the ball but he likes to play-act and influence the referees. It's classic Italian stuff. I guess we will have to try to do the same."
That should be a good match tomorrow; I know Sweden often doesn't come on strong, sort of like England. They were a very good team at the '94 USA World Cup though.
These are good announcers in this game, this fellow may be Northern Irish.
Northern Ireland Scores! 1-0
I can’t believe I got soccerway.com’s live graphics saying the goal was scored before the tv coverage.
Almost seems like a 10 second delay; quite a bit. Maybe less.
Now, Ukraine’s work is really cut out, they haven’t show much spark in my view.