Live Blog: Day eight at the ECC

Tomorrow we are back with the gold medal games in the A-Division and medal games in the B-Division.

Good night! 🌙

So much action today, and the bronze medals are already decided in the A-Division.

Read our summary of today’s medal games here.

“It’s a good medal, it’s a wonderful medal, especially the way we’ve played the entire week. The team was amazing! Of course we were aiming for something more than bronze the way we played this week, because we had a strong performance, but it’s a medal in a European championship! It’s never easy to medal in this type of competition. I’m so proud of my team and I’m pretty happy.”

“It’s always hard to keep a lead like that especially when you score big in the beginning, and you have opponents like team Sweden, who are very aggressive. It’s tough, you have to be really relaxed and have a good mindset.”

Oskar Eriksson’s promotion take-out didn’t go as planned, Italy stole a single and won the bronze medals.

Joel Retornaz played a perfect nose-hit for two with his last stone to go up, 9-7.

An absolutely amazing triple take-out for two from the most decorated curling Olympian!

Italy 7, Sweden 7, going into the ninth.

Joel Retornaz needed an excellent draw to score a single against three Swedish counters in the seventh. He executed it perfectly to go up by two, 7-5.

Great end for the Swedish team as they put two on the board to reduce their deficit to a single point.

Italy 6, Sweden 5 after six.

Oskar Eriksson played a difficult draw with his last stone to sit second shot. It prevented Joel Retornaz from going for a big score. Instead, he decided to play a draw for two. He just did that to re-set his team’s three-point lead.

Italy 6, Sweden 3 at the break.

A well-played end resulted in two points for Sweden who reduced their deficit to a single point.

Italy 4, Sweden 3 after four ends.

Joel Retornaz was forced to draw for one in the third end. After a measure, it turned out that he just did that and re-established his team’s three-point lead.

After a measure, Italy scores one after Joel Retornaz 🇮🇹 draws to the button! #ECC2022 #curling
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— World Curling (@worldcurling) November 25, 2022

Italy 4, Sweden 1, after three.

Oskar Eriksson drew to the four-foot for one.

Italy 3, Sweden 1, playing the third end.

After two uncharacteristic mistakes from Sweden, Italy scored three in the first end.

Italy and Sweden met in the second round-robin session last Saturday, and the Italians won by 8-7.

The two teams met in the semi-final of last year’s European championship. Sweden won that game by 6-3. Later on, Sweden claimed silver medals, while Italy took bronze.

The men’s bronze medal game starts in 30 minutes.

Click here to read our quick update from the men’s B-Division.

“I feel over the moon right now, I can’t describe it. After yesterday’s semi-final, that was just so tough. We really came back and we’re so happy to get that medal today. We just said to ourselves that our goal this week was to medal and we’re still in reach of that. We had to pick ourselves up and say ‘we haven’t missed our goal yet’, and that really helped. We’ve had some really strong games and come back in some games when we were down, and that just shows we’ve got something within our team. I can’t wait to keep going with it.”

Italy scored a single with Constantini’s nose-hit and then conceded the game after nine ends.

Stefania Constantini threw a difficult tap-back with her last stone to score, but it wasn’t successful, and Italy gave up another steal of one.

Italy 4, Scotland 9, going into the ninth.

Stefania Constantini’s difficult promotion take-out didn’t turn out the way she planned it, and Italy gave up two to Scotland.

Scotland are leading the game by 8-4, going into the eighth.

Two on the board for the Scots after two great draws by Morrison.

Italy 4, Scotland 6.

With a perfect hit-and-roll with her last, Stefania Constantini forced Rebecca Morrison to draw for one. Her draw was a bit heavy, and Scotland gave up a steal of one.

Tied at four at the break.

Stefania Constantini was forced to draw for one against three Scottish counters in the house.

She executed the task at hand.

Stefania Constantini 🇮🇹 keeps calm under the pressure of drawing against three to score a point! #ECC2022 #curling
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— World Curling (@worldcurling) November 25, 2022

Italy 3, Scotland 4, going into the fifth end.

Rebecca Morrison’s last draw wasn’t good enough for second shot, therefore, Scotland put only a single on the board.

Italy 2, Scotland 4 after three.

Scottish third Gina Aitken’s complete miss on her take-out attempt opened the opportunity for Italy to score two points back.

They just did that and are now trailing Scotland by one, playing the third end.

Italy’s Constantini was forced to draw for one, but was heavy, and gave up a steal of three to Scotland in the first end.

The two teams met last Sunday in the third session of the round robin.

At half time the teams were tied at 4-4, but eventually Italy won by 10-4.

Watch the action on the Curling Channel.

The men’s qualification and relegation games begin at 13.00 in the B-Division.

Follow the live scores here.

Click here to read our quick summary of the men’s semi-finals.

“We started out nervous, which is a bit sad, because we played so well throughout the week, if we had been a bit more cool in those first five ends it would have been good. We were lucky with some unusual misses [from Oskar], but we had a strong second half. It’s fun to play with our guys, they’re great sweepers and great at executing. We’ll be trying our best out there and we’ll see what happens [in the final].”

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Oskar Eriksson made a superb double take-out to blank the ninth end.

Switzerland 6, Sweden 3, playing the tenth.

“That’s a blow to Sweden!” from Sven Michel 🇨🇭 as he peels a guard and a stone in the rings 👏#ECC2022 #curling
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— World Curling (@worldcurling) November 25, 2022

Oskar Eriksson (with yellow stones) had to make a very difficult draw for one, which didn’t work out for him and Switzerland stone a single.

Switzerland 6, Sweden 3, playing the ninth.

Oskar Eriksson missed his hit-and-stay attempt with his last, as his shooter rolled out of the house and Sweden gave up a steal of two.

Switzerland 5, Sweden 3, going into the eighth.

Sweden blanked the sixth end and carried the hammer over to the seventh.

Switzerland were forced to draw for one in the fifth.

Benoit Schwarz made it, and tied the game at 3-3, going into the break.

“everything needs to be perfect and it is!” for Benoit Schwarz 🇨🇭as he draws to the button for one point 🔥#ECC2022 #curling
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— World Curling (@worldcurling) November 25, 2022

Benoit Schwarz missed his take-out attempt with his last stone to give up a single to Sweden.

Switzerland 2, Sweden 3, going into the fifth.

A well-played end by the home favourites resulted in two points for Sweden.

No mistake from Oskar Eriksson 🇸🇪 as he makes a nose hit for two points!#ECC2022 #curling
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— World Curling (@worldcurling) November 25, 2022

The game is now tied at 2-2 after three ends.

Oskar Eriksson’s double take-out attempt didn’t go according to plans and Sweden gave up a single steal to Switzerland.

Switzerland 2, Sweden 0 after two.

Sweden (playing yellow stones) forced Switzerland to take their single in the first end.

Benoit Schwarz threw his last stone away to make sure they indeed score their one, as the four-foot was pretty packed.

The two teams met on Monday in the round robin and Switzerland won that game, by 7-6.

Watch it on the Curling Channel.

Welcome to the second-last day of the Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships 2022.