After losing three out of four friendly fixtures at the start of his reign in the managerial hotseat, Jon Dahl Tomasson recorded a maiden competitive victory as Sweden head coach at the first attempt on Thursday night, securing a 3-1 success over Azerbaijan in Baku to begin the 2024-25 Nations League schedule.

Following their relegation from League B during the last edition, Blagult possesses some of the hottest attacking talent in League C this time around, with Alexander Isak bagging a brace and Sporting Lisbon talisman Viktor Gyokeres finding the net to seal a win over Fernando Santos's troops.

That being said, Sweden took a while to reach top gear in Baku and could have found themselves behind just before the half-time break, when Stoke City goalkeeper Viktor Johansson denied Azerbaijan's Ramil Sheydaev from the penalty spot, with the 25-year-old replicating his good performances from the Championship in recent years.

Blagult will be looking to avoid a repeat of their most recent home fixture on June 8, when Sunday's hosts welcomed Euro 2024-bound Serbia to Friends Arena, with the visitors securing a three-goal victory courtesy of strikes from Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Aleksandar Mitrovic and Dusan Tadic.

Whilst under the interim stewardship of Under-21s coach Daniel Backstrom in January, Sweden recorded a 2-1 friendly win over this weekend's opponents, with Sebastian Nanasi and Isaac Kiese Thelin finding the net for the hosts.

With Slovakia and Sweden residing in the four-team section, Estonia face an uphill task as they aim to secure a top-two finish in this season's Nations League, with Sunday's visitors to Solna suffering an opening-round defeat at the hands of Francesco Calzona's side in Tallinn on Thursday.

Creating just 0.16 expected goals and enjoying only 39% possession, it was a difficult evening for the Blueshirts last time out, with a second-half strike from Slovakian winger Tomas Suslov, who currently plays for Hellas Verona in Italy, securing maximum points for one of England's Euro 2024 victims.

After narrowly missing out on a result earlier in the week, Estonia are back on the road in a competitive sense for the first time since a sobering night in Warsaw during March, when Thomas Haberli's side suffered a 5-1 defeat to Poland in their Euro 2024 playoff semi-final.

Following a trophy-laden six-year spell in charge of Estonian powerhouses Flora Tallinn, Jurgen Henn is now in control of the national team, with the 39-year-old tasked with keeping his country afloat in a tricky-looking League C section.