Tre Kronor is boiling.
The loss would sting violently. Pasi Liesimaa
The Swedish team was extremely hot after losing the quarter-finals of the World Cup to Switzerland 1–3.
From the locker room corridor, you could hear one of the players slamming his bat violently against the wall.
Tre Kronor was irritated by the sentences of Finnish judges Riku Brander and Mikko Kaukokari – or the lack thereof.
Switzerland’s Dean Kukan got sent off after hitting Ivar Stenberg in the face with a cross stick, but Timo Meier, for example, escaped without a game penalty after executing Oskar Sundqvist.
The Swedes were of the opinion that Meier was guilty of a knee tackle.
Sweden called for Timo Meier to be sent off. Pasi Liesimaa
In addition, the yellow shirts are protesting the leg sweep with which Nino Niederreiter, in their opinion, brought down Oliver Ekman Larsson.
Sundqvist and Ekman Larsson were injured in the match.
“They were afraid to whistle”
– The judges were scared. They were afraid to blow the whistle correctly, Stenberg said.
The young man with a cut across his face had a swollen lip.
Mattias Ekholm calculated that Switzerland could have had three outs in the first two sets.
Emotions boiled over in the rink. Pasi Liesimaa
The experienced defender signed Viaplay’s expert Ville Nieminen’s view of the match. Nieminen said that it was “the dirtiest World Cup match ever”.
– I agree, one hundred percent. In which other World Cup game do you get three fouls in 40 minutes, for which you could give a time out? One team was dirty, and the other wasn’t, Ekholm snapped.
Albert Johansson also listed fouls that Brander and Kaukokari should have whistled in his opinion.
– As a player, you just hope that the referee does his job, he said suggestively.
