A tailor-made start: Blue Team outclasses Romania

The national team had prepared for the Division IA World Cup for three and a half weeks. The World Cup adventure in England finally started on Saturday, at the end of which promotion should be made clear. With Romania, Marco Insam & Co. met the supposedly weakest opponent on Saturday. Anything other than a win would have been a huge disappointment. Without shining, the Blue Team did the job and won 6-2.

It is still early to say what shape the Azzurri are in. The Eastern Europeans offered too little resistance that evening. Romania was inferior in running, physical and technical terms. Only when Luca Frigo & Co. downshifted after the 4-0 win was the outsider able to keep up and score two consolation goals. Previously, the Azzurri appeared dominant – with momentum and a lot of effort towards the goal. At times they acted too playfully in the offensive zone, almost arrogantly - knowing full well that the victory cannot be taken away from them. The goals conceded came from mistakes that they will have to correct as much as possible in the coming games.

Thomas Larkin, who inherited the C on his chest from the absent Daniel Frank, was named man of the match. The Schwenninger Wild Wings defender scored twice within seven minutes at the start of the game - with two extremely precise shots. With another hard attempt he completed his hat trick. In addition to Larkin, the eye-catching Angelo Miceli also struck twice. Justin Fazio had a quiet evening in the box (only 18 shots) and was not to blame for either goal. The next game is on the program on Sunday, when the duel against South Korea takes place in Nottingham at 20.30 p.m. The highlights Dream start The game is only 59 seconds old when Thomas Larkin hammers a wrist shot into the corner. Goalkeeper Patrik Polc is powerless and a few minutes later concedes a photocopy of this goal to make it 2-0. With oomph Phil Pietroniro fights for the puck along the boards and lays it up for Pascal Brunner, who hits it precisely into the top corner from the slot. Less than a minute later, Angelo Miceli pokes the puck over the line after beautiful Tedesco preparatory work. Larifari Afterwards, the Azzurri started to slip: Zsombor Molnar was left criminally alone at 1:4, and Matyas Kovacs was able to storm towards Fazio alone at 2:4. It becomes clear Miceli and Larkin set the final point in this game: The HCB crack increased the score to 5:2 with a precise shot from the slot, before Larkin made it 6:2 with a shot from the blue line. Romania – Italy 2:6 Romania: Polc (Toke); Sallo-Gecse, Bors-Borysenko, Rasulov-Yemelianenko, Farkas-Creanga; Zoltan Molnar-Constantin-Zsombor Molnar, Balazs-Kovacs-Casaneanu, Fodor-Gajdo-Filip, Lymansky-Teamriuc. coach: Penzes

Italy: Fazio (Clara); Pietroniro-Trivellato, Larkin-Spornberger, Miglioranzi-Insam, Glira-Gios; Tedesco-Petan-Miceli, Zanetti-Mantenuto-Frigo, Brunner-Marchetti-Hannoun, Deluca-McNally-Traversa. coach: Keenan

Gates: 0:1 Larkin (00.59), 0:2 Larkin (7.55), 0:3 Brunner (25.58), 0:4 Miceli (26.51), 1:4 Zsombor Molnar (32.10), 2:4 Kovacs (47.20), 2 :5 Miceli (52.57), 2:6 Larkin (

The other results: Poland – Lithuania 7:0 South Korea – Great Britain (20.30:XNUMX p.m.)

The table Pos Country Games Points 1. Poland 1 3 2. Italy 1 3 3. Great Britain 0 0 4. South Korea 0 0 5. Romania 1 0 6. Lithuania 1 0

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A tailor-made start: Blue Team outclasses Romania

This is how head coach Mike Keenan imagined his team's start to the World Cup: Italy dominated harmless Romanians in Nottingham (England) on Saturday and thus successfully started their mission for direct promotion. Nevertheless, not all that glitters was gold.

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