John Guidetti fires home Sweden’s third goal against Wales in yesterday’s friendly match.

Goals from Emil Forsberg, Mikael Lustig and John Guidetti helped Sweden thump fellow Euro 2016 finalists Wales 3-0 yesterday in their final friendly before the tournament.

Captained by Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden named a strong side, while Wales coach Chris Coleman chose to keep attacking talisman Gareth Bale on the bench until the second half.

Ibrahimovic combined with winger Forsberg to cause no end of problems for the Wales defence in the first half and the latter slotted home the opening goal five minutes before the break after good work down the left by Ibrahimovic.

Striker Marcus Berg almost doubled Sweden’s advantage after the restart but James Chester got back to clear his chip off the goal-line.

Wales goalkeeper Wayne Hennessy then made a superb double save to deny Lustig and Erik Johansson from a corner. Lustig, however, rattled the ball home at the third attempt to make it 2-0.

With Aaron Ramsey pulling the strings in midfield, Wales defended well for long periods and broke forward at speed when given the chance, but they lacked penetration up front and seldom managed to trouble Sweden goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson.

The introduction of Bale as a second-half substitute injected some much-needed pace and power into Coleman’s side and the Real Madrid winger went close with a dipping, swerving shot that flew just wide.

The 26-year-old had another chance to reduce the deficit 10 minutes from fulltime, but he was thwarted by a last-ditch tackle from Ludwig Augustinsson.

Sweden substitute Guidetti outran the Wales defence to fire home their third in the final minutes, with the ball bouncing home despite Hennessy’s efforts to keep it out.

Bale had one more chance to restore some Welsh pride with a powerful free-kick from a tight angle but his effort flew wide.

Wales kick off their Euro 2016 Group B campaign against Slovakia on Saturday before meeting England and Russia, while Sweden will contest Group E against Ireland, Italy and Belgium.

Elsewhere, the Czech Republic suffered a 2-1 defeat by South Korea in their final test before the European Championship, playing the last half hour with 10 men.

The Czechs are counting on a mixture of youth and experience to get them out of a tough Euro 2016 Group D in France that includes Spain as well as Croatia and Turkey.

Spain trounced the South Koreans 6-1 in their friendly on June 1.

The Czechs were upset after 25 minutes when goalkeeper Petr Cech failed to clear Yoon Bit-garam’s shot from a free-kick.

Czech skipper Tomas Rosicky fired just wide minutes later.

Playmaker Rosicky, 35, missed half of the Czechs’ qualifying campaign and almost the whole season for Arsenal through injury.

And it was Rosicky who lost the ball in his own half, inspiring a quick break and a goal by striker Suk Hyun-jun, who blasted a shot from close range to give Korea a two-goal lead five minutes before the break.

The Czechs had several decent opportunities but they were snuffed out by the Koreans, who were able to get to the ball in one-on-one situations and threatened the goal from quick breaks forward.

The home side had a better start to the second half, Marek Suchy taking a shot from distance that was deflected into the net by Korean Kwak Tae-hwi just after the interval.

But the Czech revival was stemmed an hour into the game when defender Theodor Gebre Selassie hit an opposing player in a mid-air clash, earning a second booking and a sending-off.