Saturday, July 13, 2013

Third straight loss

It was yet another loss for us today. Sweden went out as the stronger team and for the first 20 minutes Austria barely made it to their offensive half. Sweden played well and diciplined and whenever we lost the ball on offense, we got it back quickly. The goals kept on coming an Sweden was in the lead 4 - 0. When Austria went up in offense they still could not overcome the final obstacle, Pernilla in the Swedish goal. She made save after save until eventually Austria scored their first goal after a little over 20 minutes.

At that point the game turned around. Austria stepped up while Sweden fell behind. The secureness in play was now gone and Austria started to score goal after goal until they had taken the lead with 5 - 4 only a few seconds before half time.

Unfortunately the second half did not continue any better than the end of the first and Sweden never got back into the game. Final score Sweden - Austria 5 - 12.

Tomorrow evening Sweden will play against Japan, a game expected to be much tougher for us.

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