Finland will play in the World Championship bronze medal against the Czech Republic under the age of 18.
The Finnish boys’ under-18 national hockey team lost to the World Cup semi-finals in Landshut, Germany on Saturday 1-2 and will face the Czech Republic in Sunday’s bronze medal match.
Jonathan Lekkerimäki scored the winning goal for Sweden with a superiority in the last minute of the actual playing time. I sat on the ice Joakim Kemellwho towed the Finnish semi-finals to Thursday’s Canada match with his hat trick.
– Tight match. The guy was better at the goal. Let’s go get a medal for a bronze match. It has been a great trip and we will end in victory, disappointed Kemell in an interview with TV5.
“Great Hockey”
Finland dominated the opening round, but not Kemelli and Jere Lassilan despite good attempts, passed a Swedish goalkeeper Hugo Hävelidia. At the start of the second installment, Sweden took over the game, and Intake Stenberg took the lead to the western neighbor. The Little Lions sought equalization but ran into a tight defense.
In the final batch, Finland got the opportunity with superiority, after which Jani Nyman raised the Little Lions to levels.
Kemell’s Lekkerimäki caught everyone off guard with a great opening pass – but unfortunately Lekkerimäki was as surprised by the move as anybody else, and managed to miss the extraordinary opportunity. Topias Leinosen.
– Goal game. The team played great hockey. Both teams, head coach of Finland Mika Marttila underline.
– The third round was ours, as has often been the case in this tournament. In the end, the guy scored the goal with superiority.
The old ones are vomited in the yard
Sweden will face the United States in the final. Finland will play in the bronze match for the second year in a row. Last year Petri Karjalainen Finland lost the bronze medal match to Sweden. Defender of the current team Kasper Kulonummi and striker Kemell were already involved at the time.
Head coach Marttila, like Kemelli, emphasized that the team must once again load the bangs into the match and take the medal.
– Now we have to blow out that tomorrow (Sunday) the medal will be played. For boys, these are their first World Championships, and it’s always a tough thing to play for a medal. Work is being done on it.
– We have to sit down with the group and vomit old ones in the yard, Marttila underlined that the end of the Swedish match must be forgotten.
A year ago, the championship was taken by Canada, which won the finals of Russia. Finland has won gold in the boys’ U18 competitions in 1999, 2000, 2016 and 2018.