Swedish loss in the JVM premiere against the USA: "Absolutely sad"

On Wednesday, they won the rematch against the USA with 1-0 after Isabelle Leijonhielm scored the only goal of the match with barely three minutes left to play.

In goal, the Swedish goalkeepers Felicia Frank and Ida Henriksson, who stood half the match each, saved a total of 49 shots.

Incidentally, it was the first time Sweden beat the USA in the U18 context.

In today's JVM premiere, Sweden played a better match, at least offensively, but still lost.

At the end of the second period, the score was 2–2 after Swedish goals by Emma Rehn and Mira Hallin.

However, Peyton Compton's 3-2 goal a few minutes before the break was psychologically difficult for the third period.

And it didn't get any better when the USA scored both 4–2 and 5–2 within the space of five minutes in the middle of the period.

But Sweden refused to give up.

Just over a minute after the USA's 5-2 goal, Linnea reduced Night and Day and when Sweden got the opportunity to play the power play shortly afterwards, it was close to a 5-4 goal both once and twice.

But they never came closer than that and instead the USA was able to score the last goal of the match, 6–3, in an open basket.

- The USA is good, but I think that Sweden has put some grills in the heads of the American bench, it's not just showing the skates and winning against Sweden, says SVT's expert Maria Rooth.

Sweden's national team captain Andreas Karlsson:

- We are not satisfied after this match.

We did everything to win and it is a strength of the team to take change after change and work on catching up slowly but surely.

Now it didn't go all the way but it's something we have with us in the remaining games.

Tomorrow, Canada awaits in a match that will be broadcast at 20:00 on SVT.

- In order for us to have a chance against them, we have to follow what we agreed on and not invent our own things out there.

What we have decided is what we are going to do and that is what will take us far in this tournament, not that we start playing a little too individually, we have to play as a team, says Karlsson.