Late yesterday, it became clear that Sweden is on to the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
France is waiting there, which won Olympic gold this summer.
After group games and the main round, Sweden comes to the final game as the national team that contracts second most in the entire World Cup, 95 times.
Only the Netherlands has been better with 106.
- It is clear that that number looks great and it is the type of handball that we want to play.
It is a success factor right now in handball, says Nathalie Hagman to SVT Sport.
- We want to stand well behind and run and get simple goals.
I know for myself how frustrating it is to let go of those goals.
This is something we have put a lot of focus on and I think it looks very good.
Contract in half of the goals
Just Hagman has been successful in the Swedish counterattack game.
She tops the World Cup's shooters with 62 hits - half of them, 31, have come on the counterattack.
- It's my way of playing handball, one of my good qualities.
I like to run and get the ball and the matches that have been played in the championship have suited me well, says Hagman who scored 19 goals against both Puerto Rico and Kazakhstan.
France has reaped great success in women's handball in recent years.
World Cup gold 2017, European Championship gold 2018 and Olympic gold this summer, among others.
Approached France
The last time Sweden beat the French team was seven years ago.
But Sweden has approached, in this summer's Olympics there was a draw in the group stage and a narrow loss (27-29) in the semifinals.
How important is it that the adjustment game works against France?
- Very important.
I think it is a big contributing factor to the fact that we have played well in the last championships.
- France is a team that concedes very few goals but also scores very few goals.
So it's about us running with them and trying to scoop in some goals and hopefully stand close behind as well.
So hopefully we will win.
The quarter final between Sweden and France will be played at 5.30 pm on Wednesday.