Sweden 107 - England 117The first game of the european championship was against the host and it was a drama. Once again.
In the first half we outperformed them, thanks to Fredriksson. He was an offensive beast and scored 27 points untilt he break. Unfortunately he was cold as ice during the second half. Luke Innes who is England's best player wasn't stoppable. I switched the whole defense order and set Widerström as his direct opponent. But Innes scored like he wanted... Against our best inside defender. In the end England moved a little bit away and secured the win.
Again we missed it by a small margin. I went with more effort, the right GPD guess and the best possible line up and still... ten points made the difference.
Once again we are part of the chaos group. Russia was crunshed by Iceland. Hungary lost against Norway. So our friendly scandinavian neigbours did what they could to "help us"
The two losses of Russia and Hungary leaves us in a still good position. Both concurrents for the second place lost. The problem: we have to play against them during the next two weeks. And this leaves me with a lot of headache.
Like always I will wait until the friday update and set the line up on sunday.