Sweden wins the men's World Games final | Storylines to follow for both teams

Sweden beat Finland 2-1 in a low scoring affair to end the World Games tournament in Chengdu, China, getting their revenge for the loss in the WFC final a little more than half a year ago.

Let us have a look at how Sweden and Finland look now, and what they are up to.

All videos in this post from the IFF broadcast.

Let us have a look at a comparison between this game and the WFC final from 2024 in Malmö.

Remember that game where Sweden jumped ahead 4-0 and it all looked like they would coast to the gold medal but did not?

These were the numbers from that game.

And now the two power houses met again, though under different circumstances. Only 12 field players and a reduced playing time of 3 times 15 minutes.

This is how it looked this time.

Sweden for sure had a better showing this time. The most noticeable being that they limited Finland to zero high danger shot attempts, while producing three of their own.

In terms of scoring, the five-on-five scoring ended up 2-0 in favour of Sweden.

Of course, what we like to do here on xProgress is to not let the numbers be the only source for describing what actually happened during a game.

The most interesting thing for the eye is of course how it happened.

Let us have a look at some interesting things the teams did during the game! 👇