The Tyresö Royal Crowns (4-1) will travel south to face the Kristianstad Predators (1-4) as the Swedish Superserien enters the second to last weekend of the 2024 regular season.
The game is important to both teams. Tyresö needs to keep pace with the Stockholm Mean Machines while the Predators need a win to have any chance at all of making the playoffs.
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Kristianstad fell last week to the Örebro Black Knights 48-2 after dropping a 35-28 decision to the Oslo Vikings the week before. They were beaten by the Stockholm Mean Machines 41-18 prior to that. They had earned their first win the week before, 21-20 against AIK Stockholm. The Predators had suffered a tough opening day loss in their first game back in Sweden’s top league since 2015, when they were trounced by the Carlstad Crusaders 42-6.
Tyresö opened the season by downing the Vikings 56-37 but then dropped a tough 24-21 decision to the Carlstad Crusaders. They then blanked the Griffins 35-0, downed the Black Knights 47-29 before beating AIK 35-7 a week ago.
The odds are in the Royal Crowns’ favor but Kristianstad is playing at home and desperate. Anything can happen then.