USA – Italy | 7:4 (end) | | | Hong Kong – Lebanon | 5:0 (end) | | | Cayman Islands – Great Britain | 4:2 (end) |
Switzerland – USA | 1:2 (end) | | | India – Finland | 4:1 (end) | | | Armenia – Bermuda | 3:2 (end) |
Italy – Portugal | 1:6 (end) | | | Haiti – France | 0:1 (end) | | | Canada – Slovakia | 0:3 (end) |
Slovakia – Great Britain | 4:0 (end) | | | Italy – Canada | 1:4 (end) | | | USA – Czech Republic | 0:3 (end) |
Derek OBrien
Goals and assists:
39. Fiore (Verrelli, Pagendam) – 3. Cabral (Camara, Pires), 14. MacBeth (Senra, Camara), 26. Monteiro (Duarte, Cerqueira), 30. David (Pires), 40. Pires (David), 41. Creador
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Italy:
Campisano (Cusimano) – Verrelli, Divizio, Ferilisi, Fiacconi, Musto, Antoniali, Cerone, Colin Di Giacomo – Pulicicchio, Fiore, Phil Di Giacomo, Bernardo, Bowers, Velenosi, Peragine, Bonanno, Carroccia, Pagendam, Dentamaro, D´Ettore, Novielli, D´Elia
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Coach:
Portugal: Cruz (Medeiros) – Aragao, Carreira, Cerqueira, B. Creador, C. Creador, R. Leal, Queiroga, Rocha – J. Cabral, P. Cabral, Camara, Carvalho, David, Duarte, Gallant, Goncalves, M. Leal, MacBeth, Monteiro, Pires, Pontes, Senra
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Coach:
Portugal: Cruz (Medeiros) – Aragao, Carreira, Cerqueira, B. Creador, C. Creador, R. Leal, Queiroga, Rocha – J. Cabral, P. Cabral, Camara, Carvalho, David, Duarte, Gallant, Goncalves, M. Leal, MacBeth, Monteiro, Pires, Pontes, Senra
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Attendance:
ITA – Colin DiGiacomo
POR – Matthew David (20:37:53)
And another one just 49 seconds after the last one. Fantastic individual effort from captain CHRIS CREADOR, who fought off a check in the corner, cut to the front of the net and tucked the ball between the pads of Campusano.
Unassisted.
They restore their 4-goal lead just 43 seconds later, as RICARDO PIRES gets his third point of the game.
Assist: Matthew David.
On their third straight power play chance they finally score. Cruz stops the initial shot but it bounces off the foot of ALBERTO FIORE, who was stationed in front.
Assists: Michael Verrelli, Tanner Pagendam.
Third straight penalty to Portugal this period.
3rd period begins at 20:14 CEST.
A very nice move by MATTHEW DAVID to fake out the Italian defenceman, then beat Campisano with a high wrister.
Assist: Ricardo Pires.
DiGiacomo had just left the penalty box but was not back into the play, so it was still essentially a power-play goal, though not officially. TONY MONTEIRO sent a high slapper through a crowd and past a screened Campisano.
Assists: Paul Duarte, Chris Cerqueira.
Penalty for Italy (Verrelli – 2 min., Holding an Opponent).
Penalty for Portugal (Camara – 2 min., Holding the stick).
2nd period begins at 19:35 CEST.
DUSTIN MacBETH is able to go directly to the front of the net unmolested, where he takes a pass with nobody around him and fires it past Campisano, who really had no chance from point blank.
Assists: Nicholas Senra, Eric Camara.
They cash in on the power play, as the ball gets moved to JUSTIN CABRAL, and he snaps it upstairs from the faceoff dot.
Assist: Eric Camara, Ricardo Pires
Italy: Campisano (Cusimano) – Verrelli, Divizio, Ferilisi, Fiacconi, Musto, Antoniali, Cerone, Colin Di Giacomo – Pulicicchio, Fiore, Phil Di Giacomo, Bernardo, Bowers, Velenosi, Peragine, Bonanno, Carroccia, Pagendam, Dentamaro, D´Ettore, Novielli, D´Elia
Portugal: Cruz (Medeiros) – Aragao, Carreira, Cerqueira, B. Creador, C. Creador, R. Leal, Queiroga, Rocha – J. Cabral, P. Cabral, Camara, Carvalho, David, Duarte, Gallant, Goncalves, M. Leal, MacBeth, Monteiro, Pires, Pontes, Senra.
Italy is designated as the home team for this game and is wearing their "double blue" jerseys and shorts, with dark blue socks and white helmets. Portugal is warming up in white shirts, but they will probably wear their turquoise jerseys and shorts, with dark coloured socks and white helmets.
In their first two games, Italy lost 12-0 to the Czech Republic and 6-3 to Switzerland -- a game they led 3-0. In their first two games, Portugal lost 3-1 to the USA and 5-3 to Switzerland -- a game they also led 3-0.