dahlkvist is a central midfield player whose main strength is her range of passing. uefa.com wrote that dahlkvist also reads the game well and takes responsibility during matches, a trait apparent even when she was a youngster. during the 2011 fifa women's world cup, the "dagens nyheter" newspaper described the industrious dahlkvist as a "tough workhorse in both defence and attack". she is seen as a player who thrives on the big occasion and won praise for calmly converting her 2011 world cup penalty past the united states' celebrated goalkeeper hope solo, a feat she repeated in the rio olympics.