Football: Sweden v England - in pictures

England's manager Roy Hodgson always gets a warm welcome in these parts after so many years of success as a manager in the domestic Swedish league with Malmo and Halmstads earlier in his career. Here he is meeting the incumbent Sweden boss Erik Hamren Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

The venue for tonight's match, named the Friends Arena, is a 50,000-seater stadium with a retractable roof which has been closed tonight in order to keep out the chilly evening air Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

Liverpool's Jamaican-born striker Raheem Sterling is earning his first cap for his country tonight Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

He's playing alongside Manchester United's Danny Welbeck Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

After 20 minutes, Sterling is looking rather desperate - and that's because Zlatan Ibrahimovic has just scored for Sweden Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

Ibrahimovic deftly poked the ball into the top corner of Joe Hart's goal from 12 yards after his initial shot was blocked Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

But two goals in three minutes for England spin the match around ... Welbeck gets the first by racing onto Ashley Young's cross and volleying home from close range at the far post Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

He's delighted ... Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

And then the debutant Stephen Caulker follows suit, bundling Steven Gerrard's whipped free-kick home at the foot of the opposite post Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

So, unlikely as it may have seemed at one stage, England lead 2-1 at the break Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Amid all of the substitutions in the second half, the tempo of the match is somewhat lost ... Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

But with quarter of an hour remaining, Sweden suddenly equalise. The new boy Ryan Shawcross (pictured), who has only been on the field for a minute, is partially at fault as he allows Ibrahimovic to drift over his shoulder, chest down a floated ball and volley past Joe Hart Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Then Ibrahimovic scores a long range free-kick to complete his hat-trick and put Sweden 3-2 up Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

Hart really should have stopped that one Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Wow! As if a hat-trick wasn't enough Ibrahimovic produces something truly stunning to end the match - an opportunistic overhead-kick from 30-yards out which loops perfectly into the net Photograph: NewsPics Ltd/ITV

The Swedish talisman has made tonight his own. Hart gave him the opportunity to score his fourth goal with a poor headed clearance outside his penalty box, but boy did Ibrahimovic punish him with a moment of magic. Final score: 4-2 Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images