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The Americans tortured the gold of the World Cup. But without Russia, this title is inferior
Jeremy Sveiman and hockey players of the US national team / Photo: © Eurasia Sport Images / Contributor / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru
The US national team in the overtime of the final beat Switzerland.
The US national team for the first time since 1960 became the world champion! The Americans in a tense finale against Switzerland produced victory in overtime and took the long -awaited title!
But success can hardly be called full-fledged, because the star-striped man managed to interrupt the “drought” without gold medals in the tournament without the Russian national team.
Historical opportunity for finalists
Switzerland tries to prove very much that he deserves the right to be in the list of top teams. Last year, Europeans reached the final, where they lost the Czech Republic, which accepted the tournament – 0: 2. At the World-2025 championship, the team of Patrick Fisher again had the opportunity to take a trophy for the first time in history. The Swiss shown ambitions already at the group stage, where they lost only the Czech team in overtime. But they confidently beat the same Americans – 3: 0.
As a result, Switzerland went out of the first place in the playoffs, where she did not feel resistance at all: at first the Austrians were beaten (6: 0), and then the Danes (7: 0). As for star-striped ones, they received a chance for the first time since 1960 to become world champions!
To finally pick up the trophy, the Americans brought players with solid experience and promising youth from the NHL to the tournament. In the group, the Ryan Barsof team suffered only one defeat and took second place. In the playoffs, the US team confidently figured out the Finns (5: 2) and the Swedes (6: 2).
– This is not at all good for us, we must begin to win this tournament. We have to play another game, ”commented on the Barsofsky thirst for Americans to win the World Cup.
Golden goal Thompson
In the first period, both teams acted quite accurately, so there were almost no really dangerous points. At the same time, the teams were thrown 11 times on target, but Leonardo Jenoni and Jeremy Sueimen hung locks on the gate. And the most interesting episodes were associated with the power techniques of Americans. At first, after a collision with William Smith, the defender of the Swiss Christian Marty flew overboard, and then Brady Shei harshly dropped Nino Netherler.
After the break, the US team had a real chance of opening an account and making the opponent play more open hockey-in the 26th minute, the Barsoff team earned a bullet. The representative of Vancouver Conor Garland went to the duel with Jenoni. The forward tried to put the goalkeeper on the shields with a fraudulent movement, but Leonardo read the situation and calmly caught the puck.
After Harland’s unrealized attempt, the game began to break into short segments. In many ways, the actions of the Americans who were not embarrassed to use the extensions influenced the pace of the match. Switzerland did not manage to benefit from the inflammations won in the opponent zone. But at the end of the period, the European team earned the majority. However, it was not possible to implement the superfluous.
In the third period, the US team began to act more actively and almost did not let the opponent go to the gates of Sueimen. But Jenoni had enough work, but the goalkeeper held Switzerland in the game. The Americans could make a serious application for victory when the majority earned in the 54th minute. With the draw, the excess star-striped with difficulty brought the matter to the shots and could not go forward.
As a result, the match went to overtime. In the 3 to 3 format, the Barsoff team felt confident and already in the 63rd minute was able to catch Switzerland on a counterattack. Tage Thompson calmly rolled into the zone and faded the transfer to Logan Kuli, who rushed to the far bar.
However, Thompson at the last moment took the game on himself and the gorgeous boob from under the defender struck the open angle-1: 0! The US national team for the first time since 1960 became the world champion!
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Jenoni performed 39 saves and did everything so that Switzerland would take the first trophy in history. However, this turned out to be few to avoid the second defeat in a row in the final. In total, since 2013, the European team has lost the fourth match for gold at the world championships.
Source: Sportbox
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