Swedish fans are against released Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic being recalled to the national team.

Former Sweden coach Lars Lagerback, who is now in charge of Norway, said ahead of Tuesday's friendly between the Scandinavian rivals that Ibrahimovic would only make the team stronger.

"If Zlatan was at the level he was at before he was injured then Sweden would have been even better now," Lagerback said at a news conference on Sunday. "Zlatan is a unique player. If you have a player like that it give you an enormous advantage, as long as there isn't a fixation."

But in an online poll for newspaper Aftonbladet, 65 per cent of the more than 100,000 people who responded said they do not want the team's all-time leading scorer to return.