Tre Kronor is ready for the World Cup quarter-finals.
Then there is an opponent Johan Garpenlöv does not want to face.
– They are tough, he says.
Tre Kronor has had a great start at the World Cup in Finland. Johan Garpenlöv’s men are still undefeated after regular time, and overshadow the home nation in the group stage.
They want to avoid Tre Kronor
There is only one point that separates Tre Kronor and Finland when a match remains. The Finns thus have everything in their own hands about the most important first place, in order to get as affordable resistance in the quarterfinals as possible.
The teams you want to avoid from the other group are Canada and Switzerland. If Johan Garpenlöv can only choose a team he absolutely does not want to play against, it is the latter.
– I saw two periods of Switzerland-Canada and then Switzerland looked good. We met them in the Globe before we went and they have a good team that has received good reinforcements. If we were to meet them, we would get full. They are tough to face, he tells Dagens Nyheter.
Want to finish top-two
Tre Kronor only has Latvia left on the game schedule. And it is of utmost importance that Sweden wins that match. Not only for the chance to take home the group victory, you also want to finish among the top two in the group.
It offers more advantages before the quarter-finals than the possibility of a, on paper, simpler resistance.
– It means a lot to avoid moving and that we will probably have, if you may say so, a simpler resistance in a quarter, he says.
Tre Kronor plays against Latvia on Tuesday with a drop at 11.20.
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