Hockey: Finland Round of the campaign in the World Championship Group stage by beating Slovakia 2-1
Finland has given herself a chance to finish in second place in Group A in the Hockey World Championship as they defeated Slovakia 2-1 in Stockholm in their last preliminary match, moving to the first two places before Canada’s meeting with Sweden this evening.
A victory for fire exchange excessive Canada Last night not only ended up only to the invincible running of their opponents in the tournament, but first Finland close to three points of North Americans.
A victory within 60 minutes for themselves and for Sweden So he would see Finland get the race on the head -to -head record.
And the leijons made the ideal start within six minutes, when the ball turned back to Vili Saarijarvi Only inside the blue line, and its passage to the danger zone was moved to the net with professionalism by Patrick Puistolafresh by his draw against Canada yesterday.
SLOVAKIAwho could not reach the quarter -finals but are also safe from the waiver, were out to break the Finnish party and thought they had equalized less than a minute later when Robert Lantosi moved through the goal and fired the past Emil diversity.
However, after a challenge from Finnish coach Anti Pennanen, officials said Hair It had intervened in the variety as the shooting entered and the goal was not allowed. 1-0 was how it remained until the end of the first period, despite Slovakia leading the number of shooting in the goal.
However, in the second period it was Finland he showed the biggest offensive effort, though it took up to the last two minutes for it to count.
Finland patiently worked the ball around the Slovak area before Jan-Mikel Jarvinen accelerated the rhythm on the left side and found Waltteri Merla in the middle, which pierced his strike in the upper corner.
Slovakia finally found a way out again in the game with just over five minutes to play – in a Powerplay, The arrival found Lantos in space. He looked at the center for the passage of options, just to catch the variety outside the guard and to select the smallest gaps between the goalkeeper and the tubes.
The Slovaks threw everything in Finland late, but the variety denied them a late comeback and Finland held further And he moved to second place at the moment, at least, with 16 points out of seven games.
Slovakia comes out of the competition with a finished sixth conclusion in Group A, with two wins, an overtime loss and four wins at the time of adjustment.
Today’s Early Faceoff in Group A was a showdown for fourth place and the last place of the play off, however the match was much more biased than expected, as Austria beat Latvia 6-1.
Austria was 3-0 ago Eduards Tramax drew a goal back for Latto eight minutes in the second period but one second of the match each for dwarf AND Vinzz Rohrer There were two of the three Austria captured in the third period to navigate the victory.
It is a first 8 -year appearance for Austria in over 20 years, while Latvia ends the group phase in fifth place and nine points for the second year in a row.