A nightmare start and a nightmare finish resulted in Sweden’s JVM loss with 4-5 after penalties against Finland.
– It was a very bad first period but we will come out and have a really good second period. Then it’s sad that we lose the lead, but this is the kind of thing you learn from, says Felix Unger Sörum to SVT Sport.
– In the third period, I think we close the match, but they manage to score six to five, says Unger Sörum.
The Finns dominated the first period and it didn’t take long before Sweden conceded the first goal of the tournament.
2-0 was a fact in the first break – but then it was another team that came back out on the ice.
Won after a penalty shootout
In the middle period it was instead Sweden that was superior and scored a total of four goals. With 40 minutes played, the Swedes had turned and led 4-3.
In the final minutes, Sweden had the chance to punctuate the match with a great position. A situation that SVT’s expert Jonas Andersson believes should have resulted in a Finnish two-minute.
– He just has to put the puck into the open goal and then Lassila pounces. For me, it’s an expulsion every day of the week, he says.
But after missing the opportunity, Finland’s equalizer was not long in coming.
The decision came first on penalties, to Sweden’s first loss in the tournament. However, the group victory was never in danger and is blue and yellow despite the loss.