Timeout for Britain.

Also Britain wants two points in the end. So the game is very hard in this moment.

France want definetly take a lead in this game and they are staying in british defence area. But Britain clear the dangerous.

Hayden Johnson had to lie into the shoot from French forward to save it.

The ball was flying up to French net, by the save from defender.

Team France is playing at full strength.

Another great chance for Great Britain. Different thing is now, that it wasn't too hard work for French's keeper.

French team started a quick attack, but they were sended back from the blue line. Also in the same time started the attack from british players.

The ball got somehow close to british keeper, but quickly returned back to centre side the floor, from there was send close to French keeper, where british players were trying to score.

On the other way, France operated in British zone to much. But british defence is doing ale the best to safe it.

The borders between French and Great Britain are not yet in English Channel, but at Blue line before French defence area. The borders are guarded as much as its needed and no British immigrant should run to French area.

France started attacking with combination in their defence zone, later they find a freeway to british defence zone. There the ball doesn't stay as much as France needed, because Britain has already send it to opposite side of the rink, where is it now.

French team is playing at full strength.

Britain doesn't stop in attacking, even they have just one player more in game. Defence of France does make everything they need to save them by another goal.

Brian Marchetti saved the ball back to net and passed it to his teammates in center area.

Adam Hagg couldn't pass the ball away from the corner close to British net.

Hard fight of ball won French team and started to attack. But they must as quick as possible return to their keeper, because Britain make here problems for defence.

French keeper must watch the area close to himself very carefully. Britain attack looks very dangerous. But his teammates cleaned the area and made it safety.

But Britain don't want to let everything be and pushed the ball to icing.

Second period begun similar as the first finished. With a big pressure form France.

Team Britain is playing at full strength.

Hard work is waiting for Britain. France occupied their defence zone and trying to score. Britain does its work as good as its needed, so France is not able to score.

The ball is mostly in the middle of the pitch. Sometimes take it british team to attack French's keeper. Sometimes take it French team to doing the same at opposite.

Team England is playing in full strength.

Team France is playing in full strength.

A big chance form british team. Their attacker missed very close the net.

One of british players is now lying on the pitch after hard attack with French player.

Britain in full strength.

In the corner of the rink we saw a fight which continued in next penalty for France.

France is doing everything for scoring, but English defence is hard and doesn't make any free place for French forwards.

This game is going up and down and it's quite fast. Just now was some of French players caught in offside, when he ran alone to british keeper.

Last minute the game was concentrated by British's keeper. Like France earlier, also Brian Marchetti did everything to make his net without dangerous.

A big fight started as soon as possible. British team won the ball and after small episode close to their keeper, started with attacking the opponent. But there were catch in offside.

British team in now going to the court with loud scream of their fans. French team suprisly doesn't have so big applaus as the british one.

The game will start in a few moment.

Squads:

France: Laferte, Lion – Ballet, Bornand, Colotti, Dissegna, Dumont, Favarin, Proutat – Abramov, Bacul, Benbekhti, Capet, Domian, Leroux, Martel, Peltier, Slupski, Tanguy, Wallet

Great Britain: Marchetti, Pearce – Adamec, Cooke, Gaunt, Graham, Hirst, Johnson, Tulip, Wilson, Wright – Brown, Bull, Cole, Ellard, Ferrington, Hagg, Kristof, Morrison, Mort, Porubsky, Slack

Referees: Simbera, Berezitzky.

Great Britain

Britain's history of hockeyball world championship has been started at the year 2005 in Pittsburgh, which they finished at seventh place. Next tournament was in Ratingen in Germany. For Britain, it was very sad. They finished at last, eighth place. Not much better result british team had in Plzeň at 2009. Worse than them were only Cayman Islands, so Britain ended the tournament at fifteenth place. Quite a better feeling should Britain team have from tournament in Bratislava at 2011. There they were at fourth place in B-pool (fourteenth in whole table). In St. John's two years later british team wasn't.

Britain came back to main tournament at 2015 in Zug. They started in group C like France. But they finished it only with one point. That sends the team to relegation battles, where Britain beated Armenia and France, but lost with Haiti. But it was enough for fifteenth place.

France

French national team firstly visit hockeyball world championship in Bratislava at the year 2011. There they met in group stage Pakistan, Hong Kong and Spain. They won it with six points. In elimination France wasn't beated up to final match with Pakistan. Very rich match for goals looked in the end better for national team from Middle East. Pakistan won B-pool part of championship in extra time 6:5. French team ended at twelfth place.

Two years later in Canadian St. John's French team started in in group B with Portugal, Czechia, USA and Switzerland. It was very difficult part of tournament, in its end France didn't have any points. They played later between Pakistan of nineth place and they loose 3:5. French team was sent to last, tenth place.

At last Championship in swiss town called Zug, France started in group C with India, Cayman Islands and today's oponent from Great Britain. They entered the tournament with lose 1:3 from Cayman Islands. After this match, France played with India and she also lost. Result of second match was for French team little bit more horrible. India send up to keeper's back nine goals, on the other side nobody was able to score. Last match in group stage French team played with Great Britain. Hapiness was in French side, so they beated their opponent 5:3 and were from third place in group sent to fights of thirteenth until eighteenth place, when they beated Hongkong 3:2, but they loosed with Cayman Islands 2:4 and Great Britain 2:7. It sends French team to sixteenth place at this tournament.

Good aftenoon from Pardubice. As the first match in "B1" group, we will see an interesting fight between France and Great Britain. Now, let me introduce both national teams.

Welcome. Game starts at 14:00.