Welcome. Game starts at 21:30.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Icing Slovakia.

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

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

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

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

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

Icing Italy, faceoff next to Paniccia´s goal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zuziakova saves a shot from the right barrier.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Slovakia cleared the ball only as war as Samantha Delenardo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Icing Italy.

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

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

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

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

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

Zuziakova saves, faceoff on her left.

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

Timeout for Team Slovakia.

Offside called against Slovakia, faceoff in the middle third.

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