Sweden fell against the Olympic champion – Sport

Three crowns, including eleven newcomers, scored their first 3-2 victory against the Czech Republic on Thursday. But now, the resistance class was another level against a Russia that had eight players from the OAR team who won the Olympic gold medal in Pyeongchang. The Russians neutralized Finland and won 3-0 in the first match.

Three Kronor opened with optimism, but after an expulsion from Sweden after just over half of the Russians, they crossed and gave a very difficult match to the Rikard Grönborg team.

There were long gameplay in their own area, and the Russians were able to create a variety of hot target chances with fast mobility and fast paced instances.

Club members joined

World Cup goalkeeper Magnus Hellberg received more than half of the match every day in the big Russian club SKA St. Petersburg, but was eventually captured.

In addition to a member of the trio club. Rear Dinar Chafizullin found Alexander Barabanov who bypassed the Swedish goal and found Andrej Kuzmenko at the far post. He could push 1-0.

Hellberg had no chance to hear in the long run.

The Swedes also performed exhibitions on a regular basis, but managed to eliminate them and earned a numerical advantage at the end of the second period.

Goal in boxplay

That ended with dividends – for Russia. Jevgenij Ketov covered Mikael Wikstrand's shot at the blue line defense, took the puck and was able to defeat Hellberg by the Swedish goalkeeper and raise 2-0.

The address of the Ketov club? Be on The club has eight players in Karjala, including the colleague of Hellberg goalkeeper Igor Sjestijorkin, who won the duel.

A pocket watch Three Crowns struggled to be attacked, the Russians played aggressively in their own zone and most swedes quickly tried their luck.

The Djurgården channel with Jacob Josefson, Daniel Brodin and Jakob Lilja created litegrann, as well as Djurgårdsforwarden Jonathan Davidsson.

The jump was on when Lilja, the same goalkeeper against the Czech Republic, was reduced to a high position after 5.18 in the third period, perfectly executed by Lukas Bengtsson.

Five minutes later, the Russians lost, also in the high position, when Kuzmenko scored his second goal for the match. Andrej Loktionov corrected 4-1 in the empty box.

Sweden finishes Karjala against the team of Finland, tomorrow.