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We couldn't keep up with the Latvians.

photo: Latvian metou.

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Yesterday's game against Latvia was the eighth match in the round robin competition of the 2018 European Championship. We gained the advantage of the last stone and led 3 : 2 after half time. Despite a number of well played situations, we failed to score with more stones and last time we were leading 4 : 3 after seven ends. After that, only the opponent scored. A deuce in the eighth and a deuce in the ninth sent Latvia ahead by three. The excellent situation in the tenth when we had two stones behind the corner guard took its toll after a blindly thrown clearing by the opponent, when he happily knocked out the guard and with him both our stones, and also took with him a stone that was in the back of the circles from the beginning and we could have used later. Then it was all in vain and the Latvians brought the tenth end to a successful end. Tomorrow we have the Finns.