The German hockey players rewrote history and beat Finland 4:3 in their first appearance at the 2024 U20 World Cup. “Suomi” lost for the second time in a row and significantly complicated the situation in Group A.
news-item-description">The hockey players of Germany surprisingly won the under-20 world championship over the favored peers from Finland 4:3.
The goalkeeper laid the foundation for the German victory Philipp Dietl, who faced 43 pucks heading between the three posts in the meeting. He maintained a save success rate of 93.02% and was deservedly named the best German player of the match. Since the 2022/23 season, he has caught only 28 duels at the club level.
It was a historic victory for the Germans, who claimed their first ever win against Finland at the junior championship. Before being selected from the country of a thousand lakes, they lost 25 times in a row. They crossed sticks for the first time in 1977 and until yesterday they had not lost once with a fantastic score of 141:31.
At the start of the second half, the match was bursting with goals, when 5,077 spectators witnessed three accurate shots within 98 seconds. He put Finland in the lead for the first time Kasper Halttunensubsequently equalized Niklas Huebner and restored the leadership of “Suomi”. Samu Bau. From the 24th minute, however, the above-mentioned goalkeeper Philipp Dietl pulled the blinds and resisted the high shooting activity of the Finnish finishers, who sent 20 shots at the German goal in the middle part and outshot the opponent by a ratio of 17:5 in the third period.
Only the German hockey players were on the offensive, and they repeated the hussar feat of the Finns 10 minutes later and scored twice within 91 seconds. He scored the winning goal Veit Oswald. Only 19-year-old attacker, thanks to two accurate hits immediately in the first meeting of the tournament, equalized the two-point gain from the previous junior championship, where he started in five fights. At the club level, he works in the German DEL in the EHC Munich team. In the national team, he wears the number 13 on his jersey, paying tribute to his father’s career. He is a member of the EV Landshut team, which brought up a pair of German representatives Tobias Rieder and Tom Kühnhackl for the NHL.
The introduction to the tournament is not going well for the Finnish team to Niklas Kokk. The second-highest drafted 2022 goaltender from the Seattle Kraken has a poor save percentage of 87.72% after two games, and in yesterday’s game he made 24 saves with a below average success rate of 85.71%.
The Finns’ elite attack in the composition also falls short of expectations Konsta Helenius – To be Hameenaho – Janne Naukkarinen. They sent 14 shots at the opponent’s goal in the course of two meetings, 10 of which were aimed at the German sanctuary. Despite the fact that the first two names are the team’s busiest forwards, the members of the first offensive formation continue to wait for the opening Canadian point.
After two meetings, the Finns have 0 points with a score of 5:9, and in the next part of the “20” championship, Latvia (December 29 at 2:30 p.m.) and home Sweden (December 31 at 2:30 p.m.) await them.
2023-12-28 10:34:52
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