Ice Hockey World Championship
Match start: 15:15 (GMT+1)
The meeting of two grandees of the European and world hockey which will draw great attention in frames of the World Cup is of great importance if we speak about the tournament aspect. Czech Republic and Sweden are one of fashion-makers in the world of hockey therefore in this battle we will enjoy a lot of stars of world hockey.
Sweden
Rikard Grönborg is going to the World Cup with a great number of hockey players that makes Sweden one of the main favorites of the tournament. Sweden takes the third place in the top-list of the hockey national teams and in frames of Euro round the team demonstrated hockey of the highest level. Sweden has come to the World Cup 2018 in its best possible squad in which there are also the stars of NHL and the stars of KHL. Leaders of the tournament are going to become: Ekman Larsson, Klingberg, Lindholm, Backlund, Zibanejad and Nyqvist. We are waiting from Sweden the bright game and good results.
Czech Republic
Under the leadership of Roman Červenka, the Czech Republic will try to show as much as possible as one of the best hockey national teams of the world. Though the squad doesn’t consist entirely of the stars from NHL but under adequate tactical training and to high-quality building of the gaming links, this national team is capable of doing a lot of things. Such players as Gudas, Voraček, Plekanec, Řepík and Chytil became the leaders at this tournament.
Match prediction
Traditionally matches between Sweden and Czech Republic are played in an aggressive manner and possess high indexes of effectiveness. That is why we wait for a large number of the thrown pucks and we choose classical total over.