Bortalaget varken skjuter eller gör mål.

Bortalaget means the away team.

It is made up of:

• borta = away
• laget = the team

Swedish often forms compound nouns as one word, so bortalaget is the normal way to say the away team.

Also, -et at the end of laget is the definite article, so lag = team, but laget = the team.

In Swedish, the definite article is usually attached to the noun as an ending.

So:

• lag = team
• laget = the team

That is different from English, where the is a separate word. In this sentence, bortalaget already includes the idea of the.

Varken ... eller means neither ... nor.

In this sentence:

• varken skjuter eller gör mål = neither shoots nor scores

This is a very common Swedish structure for connecting two negative alternatives.

Examples:

• Han dricker varken kaffe eller te. = He drinks neither coffee nor tea.
• Vi såg varken filmen eller serien. = We saw neither the film nor the series.

Because varken ... eller already makes the sentence negative.

So Swedish does not normally add inte here.

• Bortalaget varken skjuter eller gör mål. = correct
• Bortalaget varken skjuter inte eller gör mål. = incorrect

Think of varken ... eller as already doing the job of neither ... nor by itself.

They are both in the present tense.

• skjuta = to shoot
• skjuter = shoots / is shooting
• göra = to do / make
• gör = does / makes

Swedish verbs do not change depending on the subject the way English verbs sometimes do. So the same present-tense form is used with I, you, he, we, they, etc.

For example:

• Jag skjuter
• De skjuter
• Bortalaget skjuter

All use skjuter.

Göra mål is the normal Swedish expression for to score or to score a goal.

Literally, it looks like do/make goal, but you should learn it as a fixed expression:

• göra mål = score
• gjorde mål = scored
• har gjort mål = has scored

This is very common in sports language.

Because göra mål is an idiomatic expression. In this phrase, Swedish normally uses mål without an article.

So:

• göra mål = score / score goals

It does not have to mean exactly one goal. It often means scoring in general.

If you want to be specific, you can add a number:

• göra ett mål = score one goal
• göra två mål = score two goals

But in a general statement like this one, gör mål is the natural choice.

In a sports context, skjuter usually means shoots or takes shots.

It does not need an object here, because the meaning is understood from the context. The sentence is saying that the away team is not even taking shots, and also not scoring.

So in English, depending on context, you might think of it as:

• neither shoots
• neither takes any shots
• neither gets any shots off

The subject comes first:

• Bortalaget = the away team

Then comes the paired negative structure:

• varken skjuter eller gör mål

This is a normal Swedish word order in a main clause.

You can think of the sentence as:

• Subject: Bortalaget
• Predicate: varken skjuter eller gör mål

The varken comes before the first of the two coordinated parts, and eller introduces the second one.

No. It can connect many kinds of things, not just verbs.

For example:

• varken kaffe eller te = neither coffee nor tea
• varken stor eller liten = neither big nor small
• varken idag eller imorgon = neither today nor tomorrow

In your sentence, it connects two verb phrases:

• skjuter
• gör mål

Yes, eller normally means or.

But when it is paired with varken, the full expression means neither ... nor.

So:

• eller alone = or
• varken ... eller = neither ... nor

That is why you should understand eller here as part of the larger structure, not by itself.

Yes, that is a very natural translation.

Depending on context, it could also be understood as:

• The away team neither takes shots nor scores
• The away team is neither shooting nor scoring

The exact English wording may vary a little, but the Swedish grammar stays the same.