Erikkson guides Sweden to semi-finals
BySportsbeat
Updated 04/04/2014 at 17:43 GMT
Sweden skip Oskar Erikkson concedes he still has big shoes to fill despite booking his place in the World Championship semi-finals with back-to-back victories in Beijing on Friday.
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First, Erikkson guided Sweden to a thrilling 8-7 victory in the tie-breaker to book a place in the play-offs and a 5-2 win over Switzerland.
It means that Sweden will face the losers of Saturday's clash between Norway and Canada for a place in the final against the winner.
Switzerland meanwhile, will await the losers of the semi-final in the shoot-out for bronze but after keeping his hopes of defending Sweden's world title � won by compatriot Niklas Edin � Erikkson was in bullish mood.
"It feels awesome to be in the semi-final," said Erikkson.
"Hopefully we can win two more games. It would mean everything to us, to win a World Championship. It's almost the biggest thing you can win in the sport, it would be really awesome.
"But I�ve got big shoes to fill."
Against Japan, the two sides exchanged doubles in the opening two ends before Sweden opened up an 8-3 lead with three ends remaining.
And against Switzerland a steal of two in the fourth end gave Erikkson and co a 4-1 lead they didn't look like relinquishing.
Erikkson added: "The Switzerland match was such a good game for us � getting that steal of two in the fourth end, that was really big. Then we could play simple curling."
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