Italy suffered a defeat in their last World Cup game

Italy could not defend its “clean slate” and lost 0-3 to Kazakhstan in the last group game. It was the first defeat in the title fights in Budapest for the cup team, which will return to the world group together with today's opponents and will compete at the next world championships in Minsk.

Pokel lined up Andreas Bernard in goal on Saturday afternoon. Marco Insam was missing from the attack due to muscular problems and was primarily replaced by Giulio Scandella. Dave Borelli, on the other hand, moved into the second line of attack as center and played together with Nate Di Casmirro and Rob Sirianni.

Italy set the tone in the first third. The “Azzurri” shot from all positions, but the bell rang for Kazakhstan in the first situation with the advantage. Talgat Zhailauloy lost to Andreas Bernard after 10.54 minutes. As a result, the Italians had a few good chances to equalize, but the puck wouldn't go into the goal.

Italy lost a lot of ground in the middle third and had to accept the 24.40-0 defeat by Roman Starchenko after 2:21 minutes. Afterwards, Pokel's players acted nervously, but Bernard was able to fend off a total of XNUMX shots on goal and saved his team from major damage.

The Kazakhs remained in control in the final period of the game, finally closing the score with a 119-0 lead 3 seconds before the end of regular time. After the game, there was great disappointment among the Hungarians, who had hoped for a victory for the “Azzurri”.

Italy – Kazakhstan 0:3 (0:1, 0:1, 0:1)

Italy: Andreas Bernard (Adam Dennis); Christian Borgatello, Armin Helfer, Dan Sullivan, Trevor Johnson, Armin Hofer, Stefano Marchetti, Alexander Egger, Andrea Ambrosi; Markus Gander, Anton Bernard, Giulio Scandella, Nate Di Casmirro, Dave Borrelli, Rob Sirianni, Nicola Fontanive, Diego Kostner, Pat Iannone, Vince Rocco, Luca Felicetti Coach: Tom Pokel

Kazakhstan: Vitali Kolesnik (Pavel Poluetkov), Vitali Novopashin, Yevgeni Blokhin, Roman Savchenko, Alexei Troshinski, Andrei Korabeinikov, Vladislav Kolesnikov, Yevgeni Fadeyev; Viktor Alexandrov, Dmitri Upper, Roman Starchenko, Talgat Zhailaulov, Fyodor Polishuk, Vadim Krasnoslobodtsev, Andrei Korabeinikov, Vladislav Kolesnikov, Andrei Spiridonov, Konstantin Pushkaryov, Konstantin Romanov, Ilya Solarev, Konstantin Savenkov, Maxim Belyayev Coach: Vladimir Krikunov

Referee: Bergamelli (Fra), Sergeev (Rus), Brown (Usa), Nemeth (Ung)

Gates: 0:1 Talgat Zhailaulov (10.54), 0:2 Roman Starchenko (24.40), 0:3 Roman Starchenko (58.01)

Shots on goal: Italy 22 (9, 5, 8), Kazakhstan 40 (6, 21, 13)

Results Ice Hockey World Championships, Division I, Group A - Budapest (HUN)

1st matchday, Sunday, April 14, 2013 Japan - Kazakhstan 2:5 (1:1, 1:2, 0:2) South Korea - Italy 0:4 (0:1, 0:2, 0:1) Great Britain - Hungary 2:4 (1:0, 1:3, 0:1)

2nd matchday, Monday, April 15, 2013 Italy - Japan 4:1 (1:0, 2:0, 1:1) Kazakhstan - Great Britain 5:0 (2:0, 1:0, 2:0) Hungary - South Korea 4:5 nP (3:0, 1:1, 0:3, 0:0)

3rd matchday, Wednesday, April 17, 2013 South Korea – Japan 5:6 (0:1, 3:3, 2:2) Italy – Great Britain 5:1 (1:1, 1:0, 3:0) Kazakhstan – Hungary 1:2 (0:0, 1:1, 0:1)

4th matchday, Friday, April 19, 2013 Kazakhstan – South Korea 4:2 (3:0, 1:0, 0:2) Japan – Great Britain 4:1 (1:0, 1:0, 1:1) Hungary – Italy 1:2 (1:1, 0:0, 0:1)

5th matchday, Saturday, April 20th South Korea - Great Britain 4:1 (0:1, 3:0, 1:0) Italy – Kazakhstan 0:3 (0:1, 0:1, 0:1) Hungary – Japan 1:0 (1:0, 0:0, 0:0)

The table:

1. Kazakhstan 12 (18:6) 2. Italy 12 (15:6) 3. Hungary10 (12:10) 4. Japan 6 (13:16) 5. South Korea 5 (16:19) 6. Great Britain 0 (5:22)

Kashstan and Italy return to the Top Division, Great Britain is relegated to the 1st Division, Group B.

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