Lithuanians won the first match of the championship at Twinsbet Arena. Our team beat the Spanish ice hockey players 3-0 on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Estonians suffered a painful defeat in the first match of the championship. Estonians lost 0:8 against Ukrainians.
We remind you that the national teams of Lithuania and Estonia met in a friendly match before the World Championship in Lithuania, where our team celebrated a 3:1 victory.
“Estonians have always been tall and physical guys. They are technical players, so I know it won’t be easy,” said Tadas Kumeliauskas, leader of the Lithuanian national team, before the match with the Estonian national team.
Sunday’s match progress (3:1):
The first goal of the match was scored 38th second of the match. Lietuvius took the lead Mark Kaleinikov.
The Lithuanian, who faced accuracy problems on Saturday, disarmed the Estonian goalkeeper early this time and put the Lithuanian national team ahead.
Unfortunately in the seventh minute of the match Estonian hands went up – Morten Jurgens taking advantage of the confusion in Mantos Armali’s field of defense, he directed the puck into the goal of the Lithuanian national team and equalized the result. At that time, Estonia had a majority of one player on the field.
Barely in a minute the Lithuanians also retaliated – Paulius Gintautas made good use of the opportunity and the Lithuanians, who played in the majority, punished the Estonians again (2:1).
14th min. after a rough mistake by the opponent, he doubled Lithuania’s advantage by playing ruthlessly Paulius Verenis. After the early third goal of the Lithuanians, the Estonian coach made changes – he changed the goalkeeper.
There were no more goals in the highly productive half – as the last minutes of the half ticked, Edgar Protchenko still rattled the crossbar, but the result remained unchanged.
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