A total of 13 Swedish players participated during this morning's match warm-up in Riga, just before eight o'clock Swedish time.

Mainly those who did not get the chance against Denmark yesterday, but also all three goalkeepers and other current names such as Max Friberg, Klas Dahlbeck and Magnus Nygren.

- We were disappointed after the match yesterday but have tried to put it behind us.

Now it's a new match today and it's just a matter of reloading, says NHL forward Adrian Kempe to SVT Sport.

- We want to find our way back to our game and must have more chemistry in the chains.

That is probably the biggest thing we need to do better today, I think.

Garpenlöv promises change

Federal captain Johan Garpenlöv on the question of what he wants to see Tre Kronor do against Belarus today:

- I want us to take hold of the match picture and come up in our game.

What will be the keys?

- Actually, it is in the game with the puck, that we start the game faster in our own zone so that the opponents do not have time to line up.

That we are stronger in the close matches, get pucks towards goal better than yesterday and above all that we have more people in front of the goalkeeper.

Will there be any changes in the chain formations or on the goalkeeper side?

- There will be changes.

Who?

- You'll see that this afternoon.

Belarus, or then Belarus, is an opponent that Swedish fans have bad memories of.

Bad blue-yellow memories

No one will ever forget the 2002 Olympics when the light quarter-final on paper developed into a nightmare and perhaps the biggest Swedish Olympic failure in modern times.

- I remember that we lost that time, but we must of course make sure not to do that today, says Johan Garpenlöv and continues:

- We have seen at the World Cup that all teams that are here can win against everyone.

Especially a year like this with corona and so on.

So we have full respect for the opposition.

Adrian Kempe, who was born in 1996, does not have as clear memories of the classic Tre Kronor loss.

- I do not remember much from it. I've probably seen it, but I'm actually not a huge hockey fan if I do not play myself. But today, in any case, Belarus has a good team with a lot of Minsk players from the KHL. If we just go out and play the hockey we've talked about, we can beat all the teams, says Kempe.