Having won the previous two championships, TPS has the opportunity to celebrate the Finnish women’s floorball championship again. The team leads the F-League finals with 3–2 wins.
On Saturday, TPS claimed a 6–2 away win over Classic and thus leads the women’s floorball league finals with a 3–2 win. The championship is for TPS, who won the previous two championships, with a break already on Sunday in Turku.
Classic coach Jarkko Rinne wants the team to win for the third time in Turku. The first came 5–0, the second in overtime 7–6.
– It is only good from our point of view that the match is already played on Sunday without any breaks. We haven’t lost away from home. The game has gone better there than at home, today we were too cautious at the beginning, Rinne admitted.
Classic had to mess up the formations of the defender Sofia Lahten to have been banned from the game. Also another defender Julia Woivalin was on the sidelines. I saw the attacker Kristina Kauppila played as a defender.
– The absences were visible in the game. There were too easy setbacks, Rinne said.
The guests Jenna Saario scored the opening goal and the last empty goal, i.e. two goals. A guy in the first chain Meri-Helmi Höynälä your size powers 0+3. He clearly leads the points market in the playoffs with 13+12=25.
The screw can still be turned
Head coach of TPS Aki Vilander doesn’t falter, even though Classic has been looking for away wins in the finals.
– The game trend in the team has been rising all the time. This is also where you can afford to tighten the screw. The team is in good physical condition, Vilander emphasized.
The ideal composition of TPS was missing again Milla Nordlund. Last spring, Nordlund scored a playoff single-season record of 35 points.
– His situation is examined day by day, but no one is put on the field half fit. And it doesn’t make sense for his future to put him on the field, Vilander reasoned.
18 last spring’s champions have played in the TPS playoffs this spring, and no fewer than 15 of them celebrated gold in 2022, after TPS knocked out PSS at the time.
The championship on Sunday would not be a surprise, as TPS already beat Classic 3–2 in the final match of the Finnish Cup in Lahti. Four wins are needed for the championship.