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Match No. 238 - Wednesday, 19th November 1947

England 4 - 2 Sweden
Friendly
Highbury, London

Stan Mortensen, 12'

Tommy Lawton, 18' (pen)

Stan Mortensen, 26'

Stan Mortensen, 90'

1
Frank Swift

3
George Hardwick (c)

4
Phil Taylor

7
Tom Finney

10
Wilf Mannion

11
Bob Langton

Gunnar Gren, 19'

Gunnar Nordahl, 68' (pen)

1
Torsten Lindberg

2
Knut Nordahl

3
Erik Nilsson

4
Sune Andersson

5
Bertil Nordahl

6
Rune Emanuelsson

7
Malte Mårtensson

8
Gunnar Gren

9
Gunnar Nordahl

10
Nils Liedholm

11
Stellan Nilsson

Notes

Penalty: Tommy Lawton: 2nd scored from 2 taken. "Then came Lawton's penalty after Mortensen had been tripped from behind."

Sources

Western Daily Press "England maintain supremacy", Thursday 20th November 1947, page 2.