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Sweden cement spot on final weekend
Sweden joined the line-up for the final weekend in Ljubljana as they defeated Croatia 31:27 in the second-to-last main round game for group I.
The Scandinavian side took command from the end of the first quarter on and powered to a clear victory, securing third spot on the group I table with the result and with that a place in the 5/6 match on Friday. Croatia managed something of a comeback, reducing the gap to three goals in the second half, but the half-time deficit was too much to recover from.
Of course it was hard. We saw the result (of Hungary vs Slovenia) and we knew what it meant to us. We also knew we could not do anything about it. The most important here is that we still win this game despite everything that happened before the game. We want to win the next game, also. We need to focus on ourselves.
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