Sweden vs. Finland: constantly with the same winner    (16. 8. 2007, (16.8.2007, florbal.cz – bink, translated by Eva F Novak))
It’s almost a valid rule. When Sweden plays against Finland, the country of three crowns (Tre Kronor) always wins. As well as it was today in the duel between Pixbo Wallenstam and Tapanila Erä. Last year’s winner of Fortuna Czech Open beat the Finnish rivals 2:1.

A meager result could be much better, but the Swedes gave away several promising chances from breaks, which the Finns enabled them due to their leaky defense.

So already at the beginning of the tournament, a third team of Finnish Salibandyliigy lost a very important match that might decide an order at the top of the group A.