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The last game of the competition for Russia and Italy. After their draw yesterday, no doubt that today one of both teams will try to take away this match and to finish on the 5th place of this tournament.
From the beginning of the match, the Russians take the match in hand and impose their rhythm. Avid to confirm their best world classification, "Red" show themselves dangerous from the first minutes (3rd, 7th) on the Italian goal without succeeding however in opening the score.
The Russians are going to manage to free their meter in the 12th minute thanks to their captain, Alexandre PLATONOV who concludes from a beautiful deflection on an opening of LARIKOV ( 1-0 ).
Far from contenting itself with this purpose beforehand, the Russians don’t lower the foot and continue to attack; In spite of some shy Italian reactions, it is still the Russians who are going to show themselves the most dangerous..
In the 18th minute, ZHIRKOV is going to make the break in this match thanks to a backhand shot since the head of circle which deceives the Italian goalie ( 2-0 ).
2 teams make many technical errors which offers beautiful situations of counter-attack, as this Italian occasion to the 28th minute which CIOLI doesn’t succeed to concretize.
Half time score : 2-0
The second half restarts on the same bases as the first one with a Russian team which masters the match in front of an Italian team who hopes they can exploit some Russian errors.
At the 10th minute, it is all the same the Russians who show themselves dangerous with a backhand shot of KOROLEV which the Italian guard pushes away.
The Italians don’t manage to worry the Russian defence whereas these last ones look for the ideal position in the Italian circle to fire in the purpose.
The match ends on the score of 2 - 0 in favour of the Russians who end their tournament on 5th place.
