Bruce Mouat insisted his rink are “in a great spot” for February’s Winter Olympics regardless of Scotland having to accept bronze on the European Curling Championships in Finland.
Rebecca Morrison’s rink has certified for Saturday’s ladies’s last, however Mouat’s world champion rink misplaced 8-5 of their semi-final regardless of having sailed by the round-robin section with a 100% report.
It means the Swedes, led by former world champion Niklas Edin, will go for an eighth European title towards Yannick Schwaller’s Switzerland, who misplaced to the Scots on this season’s world last, on Saturday.
In the meantime, the Scots beat Joel Retornaz’s Italy, who had misplaced 8-7 to the Swiss of their semi-final, 9-3 in Friday’s third-place play-off.
Mouat, runner-up final yr and a four-time winner, mentioned: “It was a great week and we have been upset that we did not handle to cap all of it with two wins within the play-offs.
“However we knew that we have been enjoying nicely. We did not play our greatest within the semi-final – that was the frustration – however all of us simply regrouped fairly nicely, had a good chat over some meals and determined we needed to return away with one thing from the week.
“I’m very proud of the place we’re. We dominated the spherical robin and we’re probably going to be enjoying seven of them on the Olympics.
“We’re in a great spot and, if we flip up on the Olympics and play like we did right here, we’re going to be a troublesome staff to beat and we simply have to ensure we’re doing that in each sport reasonably than 10 out of the 11.”
The Italians scored one on the opening finish towards the Scots, however Mouat’s rink have been all the time in management after a two on the second and threes on the sixth and eighth ends secured bronze.
Earlier, the Swedes, who misplaced three of their opening 9 video games, took two within the seventh and ninth ends to steer 7-5 towards the Scots and Mouat couldn’t prolong a tense tie when he was a fraction out together with his last stone.
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