Sweden's players have had their World Cup preparations hindered by a hotel fire alarm.

The Daily Mail says the country's star footballers were turfed out of bed before breakfast, after a fire alarm was activated at 8am (local time) in their five star hotel in the centre of Samara.

England's Harry Kane and his team were tucked up in their beds a few miles away, oblivious that their opponents preparations for the big match had been disrupted.

Members of the Swedish team gathered in the lobby of the Lotte hotel as alarm bells rang out, looking bleary-eyed and confused.

Unsurprisingly, one of the players was overheard saying: "We could do without this today."