Finland’s under-21 national football team defeated Sweden

Finland had a bad start to the match, when the Allsvenskan’s top team Sirius Neo Jonsson took the blue and yellow team into the lead already in the second minute of the game.

Take the Glue however, leveled the match in the first period, and the second half was clearly dominated by the Finns.

Julius Körkkö scored a 2–1 lead at the beginning of the second half. He was responsible for the most beautiful hit of the evening Matias Siltanenwho shot the ball beautifully over the crossbar and into the net in the 67th minute.

On the other in the half, the game was affected by player changes, which both teams made a big deal of.

Pikkuuhkajat changed all ten of its starting field players and Sweden’s nine men on the field.

Sweden’s ranks had thinned drastically even before the match, as no fewer than twelve players from the group that was originally called together were left on the sidelines.

Sweden’s head coach Daniel Backström five national team debutants of the age group were included in the starting line-up.

Little brats will meet on Monday next week in Norway’s away field.

The qualifiers for next year’s European Championships will continue in the fall. Finland is second in its group behind Spain. It still faces Spain at home and Romania and Kosovo away.

The group winners and the best group runner-up go directly to the European Championships, the other group runners-up advance to the further qualifiers.

Sweden, which is fourth in its own group, has already lost its chance to qualify for the European Championships.