PARIS 2024

Tomas Axner about Swedish 7 on 6 tactics: We’ve practiced and not shown to anyone

By Editor

Posted on 26. July 2024.

Sweden made perfect the first day of the Women’s Olympic tournament in Paris by taking scalp of Norway 32:28 in the last match of the program.

Attacking play 7 on 6 with four-backline players was the “special tactics” which put team of Tomas Axner in front of the big rivals:

• It’s something we’ve trained for and not shown to anyone, an element of surprise that we could take advantage of. We followed the game plan to the letter, we got into good positions in almost every attack. It’s something we’ve practiced and not shown to anyone, an element of surprise that we could take advantage of and which is difficult to resolve in a match when you’re under stress. Then I am very grateful to have Carin (Strömberg) in the squad, who solved the position as middle six, it would have been difficult with five nine-meters – says Sweden’s national team coach Tomas Axnér.