Germany becomes seventh team and Netherlands eighth in the World Championships. It was the result of the first placement game today. The game was very smooth until in the middle of the second half. Then Germany took over the game and could quite easily win. The game was not just a fight about the placements. The losing team also falls out of the A-group and will play in the B-group next year. Instead, Estonia will play in the A-group when the next World Championships 2020 is played in Russian Irkutsk.
Goals in the game:
1-0 Michael Dunaev (3 mins)
1-1 Alexander Cras (9)
2-1 Own goal (10)
2-2 Sverre Tveitan (12)
2-3 Alexander Cras (13)
3-3 Johan Koch (14)
4-3 Own goal (31)
4-4 Twan Stallion (45)
5-4 Johan Koch (56)
6-4 Jonathan Wang-Norderud (48)
6-5 Alexander Cras (51)
7-5 Alexander Kuznetsov (52)
8-5 Johan Kock (64) Penalty stroke
9-5 Own goal (69)
10-5 Own goal (71)
11-5 Alexander Kuznetsov (79)
12-5 Valentin Wang-Norderud (87)
12-6 Twan Stallion (91