Sweden vs France Prediction: It Is too Early to stop, Sweden

Prediction for the IIHF World Championship Sweden vs France match which will take place on May 20th. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available. 

The Swedish national team at the 2023 World Cup shows a fantastic game. This season is Sam Hallam's debut as the head coach of the national team, but the young mentor quickly got used to his new job and immediately began to give results. At the stages of the Euro Tour, the team won the overall standings, and now they began to beat everyone at the world championship. The defense is incredibly productive, but the attack is slowly growing. In the four opening meetings, they won Germany – 1:0, Austria – 5:0, Finland – 2:1, and Hungary – 7:1, which is still enough for second place in the standings of Group A.

The French national team at the 2023 World Cup has already delighted and disappointed. In any case, they will have their usual between the relegation zone and the cup place. In the first game of the tournament, Philippe Bozon's wards unexpectedly lost one point to the Austrians when they won them in OT – 2:1. But then France took one point from the Danes, losing (OT) – 3:4. After that, the French were utterly embarrassed, sensationally losing to Hungary – 2:3. In the last match, they tried to put up significant resistance to the Finns, but in the end, they lost – 3:5, dropping to 6th place in the Group A standings.

The Swedish national team has a great group stage for the 2023 World Cup. However, it is too early to stop at what has been achieved since they still occupy the second line in group A, but they should grow to the first place to get a more comfortable competitor in the quarterfinals. For this reason, it is unacceptable for Sweden to lose points in the game with the French. Fortunately, the statistics of personal meetings favor the Swedish team since they won the last seven matches in a row at the World Championships with a total goal difference of 32:8.

The fight between Sweden and France's national teams was ineffective in scoring events. In the five previous personal meetings at the World Championships, the opponents jointly forced out only 22 goals (4.40 on average per game), which is a very modest result. So now you should not expect an unbelievable performance since Sweden plays pragmatically at the 2023 World Cup, and France is much inferior to them in class.