Finland wins the first ever women's World Games | Storylines to follow up to the WFC

Finland beat Sweden in the women's World Games final game in Chengdu, China. Obviously, this is a very interesting matchup to follow, leading up to the WFC in Czechia later on this year.

I will do my best to give you some things to look at, to make this national team season even more exciting.

This was how the match looked from a numbers perspective.

We see that there is no reason to believe that Finland stole this game from Sweden at all. There is more or less a draw in big scoring chances (chances from high and mid-high danger shots), and then Finland almost doubles up Sweden on mid danger shots.

Expected goals are slightly in favour of Finland, and they also have more unblocked shots (Fenwick).

Though it is also easy to change perspectives and say that Sweden for sure could have won this game, especially looking at them creating some dangerous scoring chances in the third, through pressing and six-on-five (and the numbers above are only five-on-five play).

Let us have a look at how it actually looked on court. What plot lines are there to follow up on? 👇