The Latvian men’s hockey team will play the world championship quarter-final match against Sweden on Thursday in Riga.
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The start of the game in “Arena Riga” will be at 20.20 on Thursday.
It has already been reported that on Tuesday Latvia beat Switzerland 4:3 in extra time and took third place in Group B, ensuring a fight with Sweden, the owner of the second place in the group tournament held in Tampere.
Still in Riga on Thursday, at 4:20 p.m., Switzerland, the winner of group B, will meet Germany, the winner of the fourth place in the Finnish group.
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On the other hand, in Tampere on Thursday, at 4:20 p.m., the winner of Group A, the USA, will play against the fourth-placed Czech Republic in Riga, while at 8:20 p.m., the home team, Finland, will meet Canada, who took second place in Riga.
It has already been reported that Switzerland collected 19 points in seven games in Group B in Riga, Canada has 15 points, and Latvia and the Czech Republic have 13. 11 points were collected by Slovakia, seven by Kazakhstan, six by Norway, but Slovenia ended the World Championship without scoring any points.
In group A in Tampere, USA won with 20 points in seven games, Sweden got 18 points, Finland got 16 points, Germany got 12 points, ensuring all of them a place in the playoffs. Eight points were collected by Denmark, four by France, three by Austria and Hungary, which must leave the elite division.
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It has already been announced that in the first matches of the group, the Latvian national team lost to Canada with 0:6 and Slovakia with 1:2, won the Czech Republic with 4:3 in extra time, Norway with 2:1, Slovenia with 3:2 and Slovenia with 7:0 Kazakhstan.
The last time Latvia reached the quarter-finals was in Denmark in 2018, when they lost 2:3 to Sweden.
The 16 teams competing in the tournament were divided into two groups, with the four best teams of each group entering the quarter-finals, while the weakest teams of both groups left the strongest division and Poland and Great Britain played in the top 16 next year instead.
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Last year, the Finns won the world championships, beating Canada in the decisive match.
The World Championship, which is jointly hosted by the Finnish city of Tampere and Riga, will take place until May 28.
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2023-05-24 04:53:00
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