Sweden took a terrible revenge on Finland in the WC final in bandy in Pori.
After the loss in the group stage, Sweden won with a crushing 9–1 – and goal machine Christoffer Edlund scored five goals.
A Finnish expulsion at the end of the first half was decisive.
The Swedish players wore gold helmets after the World Cup final in front of packed stands, 3,000 spectators.
They got to see a hot and rough first half where Sweden took a 3-0 lead.
It ended with that Finland’s Ville Hämäläinen, on a daily basis in Nässjö, dropped Sweden’s Martin Landström with a nasty elbow tackle to the head.
Landström got really groggy and had to be helped off the ice by teammates.
Hämäläinen had to see the red card and Finland had to play the rest of the match with one man less.
When the second half started, Landström was back on the ice and booed by the home crowd every time he touched the ball.
Sweden struck straight after the break against their decimated opponents, scoring four goals between the 50th and 57th minutes.
The WC final was over and the rest became a blue-yellow parade.
Goal shooter Christoffer Edlund, 38 years old, was the big match winner with five goals and was responsible for three of the first four Swedish goals in the World Cup final.
The lanky forward from Villa-Lidköping has scored over 1,000 goals during his career and last year became the most Swedish national team goalscorer in history when he passed Patrik Nilsson’s record of 110 goals.
The five goals also meant that he won the WC’s shooting league with 24 complete hits – one goal ahead of debutant William Arvidsson, who was goalless in the final.
Christoffer Edlund took his sixth WC gold in his career, the most in the Swedish team. In total, Sweden has won 15 WC gold medals throughout history.
Finland won the group stage meeting last Friday night with 4–3, but after the expulsion was ultimately without a chance in the final.
