Slovakia defended well and will try to attack one more time.

Offside called against Slovakia, faceoff in the middle third.

Timeout for Team Slovakia.

Pravlikova got to the deflected ball infront of the Italian net, fired over the bar.

Zuziakova saves, faceoff on her left.

Zuziakova pulls of a glove save after Delenardo´s shot from the right.

D´ambrogio wanted to find one of her teammates in the middle of the rink, only found the stick of one of the defenders.

Pravlikova got the ball to the attacking period, the power-play is almost over for Italy.

Slovaks cleared the ball only as far as Friesen on the attacking blue line.

Petra Jurcova turned around her defender and got the shot away, ball deflected off of a defender.

Icing Italy.

Slovakia is still attacking, Pravlikova with the ball next to the right barrier.

Zaborska´s shot from the blue line, Paniccia saves easily.

Chance for Italy, noone from the Italians managed to get a shot off.

Gaurikova pressed the Italian defence well and won the ball for Slovakia.

Shot from the blue line by Iveta Frühauf hit Paniccia´s pad, Slovakia on the ball in their own period.

First shot of the period by the Italians by Brittany Friesen saved by Zuziakova.

Slovakia cleared the ball only as war as Samantha Delenardo.

Gaborcikova got to the ball behind her net faster than the attacker and setting up Slovakia´s attack.

The two Furletti Blomberg sisters got into a counter attack, Carley´s shot wasn´t accurate, but Alicia was trying to get at the end of it but didn´t quite manage that.

Dzurinova squared the ball to the middle where Stasova was free, her first time effort was saved by Paniccia.

Slovakia is slowly waking up, but they still didn´t have that many good shots.

Silvia Kochanova got to the ball infront of the net between the circles, Paniccia saves with problems.

Carley Furletti Blomberg didn´t pas accuratly to her teammate, Italy is still in the attack.

Nice individual run by Martina Strasova, she got past three defenders, shot on goal, didn´t hit the target.

This finally changed for the Slovaks, Klucikova got a shot off between the circles, hit the goalie´s pad,

Slovakia once again didn´t keep the ball in the attacking third, the defence of Italy is working very well this match.

Italy was putting pressure on the Slovaks, then Italian players got called for a hand pass.

Patricia Dzurinova was on the floor after a hard challenge from the defender, she shook it of and will be ok.

Ball went out of play, faceoff in the Italian third.

Michaela Vrskova won the ball of the defender in the middle period but then didn´t manage to catch it before Friesen.

Slovakia got the first attack of the period, Italy won the ball back in the middle third.

Zuziakova saves a shot from the right barrier.

Mormile got the ball in an interesting position, got the shot off, Zuziakova saves with her shoulder.

Samantha Delenardo got the ball to Italian third, lost it behind Zuziakova´s net.

Italy managed to escape from the Slovakian attack, cleared the ball only for icing.

Klucikova´s shot from the blue, went wide, Slovakia still in the attacking third.

Antother shot from the blue line, this time by Lucia Zaborska, saved by Paniccia.

Barbora Kezmarska got the ball on the left, missed badly.

Slovakia will now spend some time attacking as they have a powerplay.

Dzurinova sent the ball to Klucikova in the middle, she swang for the ball but missed it.

Slovakia can´t get out of their defensive third, when they do, they lose the ball quickly.

Barbora Gaurikova got to the attacking third too early and is called for offside.

Alicia Furletti Blomberg tried getting through three defenders, but failed at the last hurdle.

Icing Italy, faceoff next to Paniccia´s goal.

Slovakia is still under pressure, shot by Delenardo from the blue line only hit Zuziakova, who then covered the ball.

Italy is still on the attack. Alicia Furletti Blomberg´s shot from a though angle went wide.

Another Italian shot from the blue, Friesen´s effort went just wide of the post.

Italy started active, Rocchina Burdo shot from the blue line, Zuziakova saves easily.

Lalikova won the ball behind Zuziakova´s net, Slovakia in the attack.

Icing Slovakia.

Alicia Furletti Blomberg tried getting around the Slovakian net, but the defender got in her way.

Starting lineups:

Italy: Paniccia (Belissimo) – Burdo, Friesen, Russo, Sampogna – P. D´ambrogio, C. D´ambrogio, Delenardo, Fioccola, Foti, C. Furletti Blomberg, A. Furletti, Mazzarello, Mirarchi, Mormile, Paniccia, Piccitto

Slovakia: Zuziakova (Risianova) – Zaborska, Frühauf, Horvathova, Lalikova, Pravlikova, Gaborcikova, Zitnanska, Kezmarska – Kapustova, Jurcova, Gaurikova, Kochanova, Dzurinova, Vrskova, Görögova, Gajdosova, Stasova, Findova, Klucikova.

Slovakia played it´s last game yesterday, when the Slovaks beat the United Kingdom 4:0. Out of four games, they only won two, lost one in the shootout and one after 45 minutes.
Statistics from the last game:

Slovakia – Great Britain 4:0

Goals and assists: 21. Görögova, 27. Kochanova (Zitnanska), 38. Gaurikova, 40. Zitnanska

Slovakia: Tomcikova (Zuziakova) – Zaborska, Frühauf, Horvathova, Lalikova, Pravlikova, Gaborcikova, Zitnanska, Kezmarska – Gaurikova, Kochanova, Krajnakova, Dzurinova, Vrskova, Görögova, Gajdosova, Stasova, FIndova, Klucikova

Italy is definetly the outsider in this one. They only got one points after a loss after shootout against USA, then they lost against Czech Republic and Great Britain, 0:7 and 0:1 respectively. italians only scored two goals, they were by Fiore and
Statistics from the last game:

Italy – Portugal 1:6

Goals and assists: 39. Fiore (Verrelli, Pagendam) – 3. J. Cabral (Camara, Pires), 14. MacBeth (Senra, Camara), 26. Monteiro (Duare, Cerqueira), 30. David (Pires), 40. Pires (David), 41. C. Creador

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

Good evening from Pardubice. Today is the last day of the women groupstage part of the World Championships, the last
group game will be play between Italy and Slovakia.

Welcome. Game starts at 21:30.