Olympic table tennis men's team semifinals Sweden eliminated Japan 3-2, and after the game, Sweden's hero Moregard's words were quite heartwarming for Japan.
In this semi-final, Japan came up to a 2-0 lead, with Shinozuka Daito / Hayasuke Togami 3-1 Kolberg/Carlsen in the first doubles and Tomoto and Moregard 3-1 in the second singles.
However, in the third singles, Hayasuke Togami 1-3 Magnusson, followed by the fourth singles Shinozuka Daito 1-3 Moregaard. The two sides fought a decisive match, the fifth singles, as Japan's single Tomokazu Zhangmoto played, facing his opponent Colberg, who was far inferior to his ranking, Tomokazu Zhang suffered a big reversal, lost 2-3, and in the end, Sweden also staged a big turnaround.
This defeat broke the defense of Tomokazu Zhangmoto, and after the game, he collapsed and fell to his knees, frustrated to the extreme, as if they thought they would be able to beat their opponent, but they lost so badly that they couldn't accept it.
But in reality, Sweden was not afraid of Japan at all, and Moregard said after the game, "We wanted to go further and when we saw the draw we really felt that it was possible [to reach the final]." Now we do. The implication is that when the Sweden men's team saw the draw results and avoided China, they had a premonition that they could reach the final.