Athletistic/Football. Today, May 15, the first high-level match of the Ice Hockey World Championship will take place. The Czech Republic will play against Sweden.

Athletistic will broadcast a live online text broadcast: Hockey. World Cup 2022. Czech Republic – Sweden. Direct

At this world championship, the groups are a bit disproportionate. If in group A there is a better team – Canada, and all others will fight for second, third and fourth places (Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, France, Slovakia, Italy and Kazakhstan), then in group B Sweden, the Czech Republic, Finland and the United States. And Norway, Latvia, Austria and Great Britain have almost no chance in the qualifiers. Therefore, the main question is which of the best will reach Canada in the quarter-finals. And in order not to mess with the “maple leaves”, you need to win head-to-head matches, because everyone is expected to beat the underdogs.

In the first round, the Czech Republic beat Great Britain, while Sweden saved their strength in the match against Austria and won only 3:1.

For today’s match, the Czech Republic have fielded the following team:
Weimelka
Gronek, Shimek, Blumel, Chervenka, Kreychi
Kundratek, Skotka, Vrana, Gertl, Shmeikal
Irzhichek, Sklenichka, Stransky, Spaczek, Simon
Jordan, Zohorna, Chernokh, Fleck.

Sweden team:
Hogberg
Larsson, Dahlin, Bemstrom, Walmark, Nordstrom
Gustafsson, Ekman-Larsson, Friberg, Kellman, Asplund
Lindholm, Temmernes, Klingberg, Bengtsson, Brome
Aman, Lang.

Hockey. World Cup 2022. Czech Republic – Sweden. Direct