In the 5th round of Group B of the European Zone of the World Cup Qualifiers, Porter's coaching of Sweden suffered a bad start. They were swept by Switzerland 1-4 in the away game. The team had not won a single victory after 5 rounds and was at the bottom of the group.

Porter said in an interview after the game: "The result of the game was painful for us. I thought we performed well in the first half. Switzerland started well. They are indeed a good team with some very good players, but I think we gradually adapted to the game. We scored a beautiful goal and had a good opportunity to rewrite the score to a 2-1 lead. In this case, sometimes you need to seize these small opportunities. In the second half, there were too many changes in the game. It was obviously our mistake to give the opponent a penalty, but the penalty was a bit rash, but we must do better."

"I told the players that we cannot enjoy the cheers of victory tonight, but we must achieve this in the play-offs in March. So far in the World Cup preliminaries, our performance has not been as good as expected. This is an issue that all of us need to reflect on, but the most important thing now is to look forward. We are very positive this week. Although the result of the game is not satisfactory, the performance in the first 60 minutes is worthy of our continued development. Considering that we are currently missing some key players and they are playing almost all the main players, this gap is understandable."

Porter said to remain calm about the team's collapse: "Again, I think we have to focus on what we want to do and have actually done. There were positives, I felt at halftime that we were still competitive, we were playing with strength and the team was keeping up with the Swiss team very well. But of course, that goal changed everything. As I said, Holm's injury affected us a lot, and Kraft only trained with us for one day, so we didn't want to put him in trouble all of a sudden, but the only way to build confidence and perform well is to focus on what you are good at."