Floorball match with everything that’s needed, that is a sign of Wednesday’s match between the Czech Republic and Finland. This demanding game was characterized by hardness, serenity and beautiful actions from both sides of the field. It was a Czech team, who led the score for long fifty minutes, but the Finns demonstrated a quick takeover, in which they scored two goals during one hundred and twenty seconds.
It was a careful start from both sides in the match of the day between the Czech Republic and Finland, which proves also a period of time, in which none of the goalkeepers caught the ball. The whole six minutes, an unexpected number for floorball, when ho shot hit the goal, but then the real battle began.
Finnish players tried first, but they hit only a goal post two times and the home team was way luckier because immediately after the second jingle of the goal post their opponent Adam Hemerka took the ball and showed a great individual action to a big audience. His shot to the right gallows of Finnish goal meant the first goal of the match and a Czech lead 1:0.
Sadly for more than one thousand spectators misfortune knocked on the Czech door too, as the home players gained a ball in their own shorthanded play, but missed a pass badly, which Finns penalized by tying the game.
The next minutes of the match between two big floorball nations were just one big battle for every ball. At 39:45 it was a Czech home team who scored a leading point again, but it was also the last goal from them in the whole match. While a 53rd minute hit the clock, it was Finnland who got the game, as they started their turnover. Three goals during three minutes from which two were scored by Matti Minkkinen meant that it were Northerners who could celebrate their first tournament win.
Czech republic 4:6 Finland (2:1), (2:2), (0:3)
goals: 7. Adam Hemerka, 20. Petr Majer, 29. Šimon Stránský, 40. Matěj Pěnička – 17. Waltteri Vesterinen, 27. Jere Koistinen, 39. Oliver Sillanpää, 54. Juuso Ahola, 56. Matti Minkkinen, 58. Matti Minkkinen; referees: Simon Broman – Martin Matti; penalties: 2:1; powerplay goals: 0:1; spectators: 1272; saves: Karel Hodík 18 – Juuso Jokisalo 20; po třetinách: 2:1, 2:2, 0:3;