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so first Two quarterfinals set - -

"Radulov" Pospíšil scored another nice one. We pulled the goalie, no idea why and 3-7 is the final score

who know ? maybe too much "premotivovanosť" as many many many many and many times before in our games many youngs learning + that first goal after 30 seconds did not really help the confidence of the youngsters to be fair and both teams already qualified , you know sorta no pressure or avoiding injuries performance.

Martin Bučko of all players scoring his first carrers goal but nice shot though. 2-6

no mercy from the czechs today. 1-6 and still counting Italy with second goal against USA 2-4, first of the tournament for Stefan Giliati

what a dumb goal 11 seconds before the break, right when we started to really play Typical Czechs

Scores after 2nd Period Group A (Olympics Sports Center) Slovakia - Czech Republic : 1-4 (0-2, 1-2, -) 00:29 Filip ZADINA (Hájek, Moravčík) 0:1 15:04 Michael ŠPAČEK (Zadina) 0:2 22:49 Lukáš RADIL (Šustr) 0:3 26:53 Matúš SUKEĽ (Faško-Rudáš) 1:3 39:49 Libor ŠULÁK (Špaček) 1:4 Group B (Riga Arena) Italy - United States : 1-4 (0-3, 1-1, -) 06:54 Kevin LABANC (Shea) 0:1 10:33 Kevin LABANC (Beniers, Clendening) 0:2 19:45 Conor GARLAND (Robertson, Tennyson) 0:3 21:01 Luca FRIGO (Trivellato) 1:3 29:54 Conor GARLAND (Unassisted) 1:4

the eastern brothers on board. Our 2019 world champs top scorer Matúš Sukeľ somehow remembered he can score and with his first goal of the tourney reduced the score 1-3. Garland in Riga Arena made again a 3 goal margin for USA 4-1

Lukáš Radil made it 3-0 for the czechs, too much one sided game sadly. but fully deserved, czechs are still somewhere else than we are in Riga Arena, goal for Italy, Luca Frigo reduced the score 1-3 against USA

Scores after 1st Period Group A (Olympics Sports Center) Slovakia - Czech Republic : 0-2 (0-2, -, -) 00:29 Filip ZADINA (Hájek, Moravčík) 0:1 15:04 Michael ŠPAČEK (Zadina) 0:2 Group B (Riga Arena) Italy - United States : 0-3 (0-3, -, -) 06:54 Kevin LABANC (Shea) 0:1 10:33 Kevin LABANC (Beniers, Clendening) 0:2 19:45 Conor GARLAND (Robertson, Tennyson) 0:3

The kid has quite a day, scoring also the second goal of the match 2-0 USA

In Riga arena the son of Slovak parents Kevin Labanc opened the score. - 1-0 after 7 minutes of play

and we played only 29 seconds and Filip Zadina scored from the first action of the match CZE - SVK 1-0

Last day of the Preliminary Round continue with the afternoon session and... it is a DERBY TIME ALERT ! In Group B will face in their last game of the tournament already qualified and assured of the top 2 spots of the group B. However Yuesey are obviously huge favorites to win and advance to the quarterfinals from 1st place, will happen if they win in Regulation Time, any other result will send them to the Play-Offs from 2nd place behind Finland. Italy will try to avoid to leave the tournament pointless, so far the only team without single point is assured to finish last 16th in the tournament (however no relegation this year). Anyway any point against USA will be a big surprise and upset, but this is a tournament of surprises so who knows ? In Group A vs yeah, a match for nothing one would say, both are already qualified and will play only for who will go to the quarterfinals as 3rd and who as 4th seeded from this group (SVK has still a very slim theoretical chance of 2nd place) but.. yeah this is more than a match. this is derby. baby ! Both teams will play this game with many substitutes in their line ups today, top lines guys having very deserved rest, so it may be even more interesting and entertaining to watch. Both countries love each other as nobody else in the world, but again for 60 minutes the armistice is paused and the war start just now !

SLOVAK ROAD TO TOKYO 2020 - SLOVENSKÁ CESTA DO TOKIA 2020 UPDATED POST 22nd Qualified Athlete Barbora BALÁŽOVÁ - TABLE TENNIS (W SINGLES) (+ MIXED DOUBLES with Ľubomír PIŠTEJ) Uzavreli stolnotenisový olympijský rebríček Barbora Balážová si zahrá na olympiáde v Tokiu aj dvojhru Stolnotenisový zväz s radosťou oznamil, že BARBORA BALÁŽOVÁ získala okrem miestenky na OH TOKIO 2020 v zmiešanej štvorhre s Ľubomírom Pištejom aj miestenku v súťaži jednotlivkýň ! Podarilo sa jej postúpiť na základe umiestnenia v rebríčku. Slovenská reprezentantka v stolnom tenise Barbora Balážová sa kvalifikovala na olympijské hry v Tokiu aj vo dvojhre. Rozhodlo o tom jej umiestnenie v rebríčku olympijskej kvalifikácie. Pod piatimi kruhmi sa predstaví aj v mixe spolu s Ľubomírom Pištejom. Už predtým si vybojoval miestenku vo dvojhre Wang Jang. Pre Barboru to bude už druhá olympijská skúsenosť vo dvojhre, v Riu 2016 vypadla v druhom kole po dramatickom sedemsetovom súboji s Li Fen zo švédska, predtým v prvom kole hladko 4:0 na sety vyradila mexičanku Yadiru Silvovu. zdroj: sstz a sošv

Final Scores Group A (Olympics Sports Center) Switzerland - Great Britain : 6-3 (2-1, 4-1, 0-1) 10:31 Gregory HOFMANN (Corvi) 1:0 11:08 Liam KIRK (Unassisted) 1:1 16:42 Romain LOEFFEL (Scherwey, Siegenthaler) 2:1 25:34 Liam KIRK (Richardson, Hammond) 2:2 30:07 Santeri ALATALO (Corvi, Hischier) 3:2 30:20 Christoph BERTSCHY (Scherwey) 4:2 36:09 Christoph BERTSCHY (Diaz, Scherwey) 5:2 37:45 Nico HISCHIER (Kurashev) 6:2 53:58 Brendan CONNOLLY (Kirk, Hammond) 6:3 Group B (Riga Arena) Canada - Finland : 2-3 After PSO (1-0, 1-1, 0-1, Overtime: 0-0, Penalty Shoot-Out: 0-1) 01:30 Brandon PIRRI (Vilardi, Ferraro) 1:0 21:11 Arttu RUOTSOLAINEN (Unassisted) 1:1 28:18 Maxime COMTOIS (Brown, Mangiapane) 2:1 56:00 Arttu RUOTSALAINEN (Lundell, Ojamaki) 2:2 the Winning Penalty Shoot-Out scored by Arttu RUOTSALAINEN 2:3 After PSO

Finland won in shoot-Outs. is at 17 points now and move on top of the group B, but will very likely finish 2nd. Canada is at 10 points and is now 3rd ahead of Kazakhstan who is already eliminated. CAN must now hope the last game vs will not end by a draw after the 60 minutes, this "eventual agreement" will qualify both of them and send Canada home.

2-2 after Overtime. Penalty Shoot-Out to decide the winner in Riga Arena. CAN now on 10 points just like KAZ, favorable head to head result 4-2 but GER & LAT behind both at 9 points are the threat, tonight they play the last game and a draw may do some real mess

Anton "the Great" Lundell produced and directed the second goal at 16:00 4 minutes to go. CAN in troubles but still alive, remember 2 points are enough for them

Updated as of June 1st, 2021

Scores after 2nd Period Group A (Olympics Sports Center) Switzerland - Great Britain : 6-2 (2-1, 4-1, -) 10:31 Gregory HOFMANN (Corvi) 1:0 11:08 Liam KIRK (Unassisted) 1:1 16:42 Romain LOEFFEL (Scherwey, Siegenthaler) 2:1 25:34 Liam KIRK (Richardson, Hammond) 2:2 30:07 Santeri ALATALO (Corvi, Hischier) 3:2 30:20 Christoph BERTSCHY (Scherwey) 4:2 36:09 Christoph BERTSCHY (Diaz, Scherwey) 5:2 37:45 Nico HISCHIER (Kurashev) 6:2 Group B (Riga Arena) Canada - Finland : 2-1 (1-0, 1-1, -) 01:30 Brandon PIRRI (Vilardi, Ferraro) 1:0 21:11 Arttu RUOTSOLAINEN (Unassisted) 1:1 28:18 Maxime COMTOIS (Brown, Mangiapane) 2:1

You are allowed to have 3 athlets in each individual event, it does not matter if all 3 are with qualifying standards or all 3 via ranking or 1-2 or 2-1. So yes even if you have 1 athlete qualified directly you can add 2 if they are in the cut-off in the ranking

Two goals in 13 seconds send to a comfortbale 4-2 lead

Maxime Comtois Power Play goal. 2-1 Canada, the powerhouse is again closer to the play-offs.

Liam in her Majesty secret services Kirk sored his 7th goal of the tournament. 2-2 between SUI and Great Kirkain