An important victory of the Turkmen hockey players over the Luxembourg team at the World Cup in Sofia
From April 22 to April 28, 2019, the World Ice Hockey Championship among the teams of the third division is taking place in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. At the end of the tournament, the team that won first place will receive the right to play in Group B of the second division of the World Championship 2020.
The championship is attended by six national teams - Turkmenistan, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Turkey, Taiwan and South Africa.
The national team of Luxembourg came from the second division, as dropped in rank at the end of last year. Then she took the last sixth place in the group, and the Turkmen team won the qualification of the third division.
It was the Luxembourg national team, having experience of playing in the division with a rank higher, for the Turkmen hockey team to be the most dangerous in the group. Turkmenistan team played with her on April 26.
After the first period, as a result of the unsuccessful actions of the Luxembourgers Massong and Kannon, the Central Asian team lost with the score 0:2.
In the second period, the Turkmenian Pavel Barkovsky reduced the backlog, having куфсрув a numerical advantage.
The time on the scoreboard is 29:12. By points for assists Soyunov and Geldymuradov фвв to their scores. In the 32nd minute Dovlet Soyunov compares the score - 2:2. But after two and a half minutes all the same Massong brings the Luxembourg national team ahead.
The draw score lasted just over five minutes and after that the player of the Turkmenistan national team, the author of the first puck of the team in this match, Barkovsky, gives an assist to Ishan Veleev, who turns out to be accurate. Again draw.
The third period begins. And 16 seconds before the end of the 46th minute of the match, Begench Dovletmuradov with the transfer of Kuliev takes the national team of Turkmenistan ahead. The score is 4:3.
Until the final siren, the score has not changed. The Turkmen national ice hockey team gains a very necessary and important victory, leaving quite good chances of reaching the second division of the World Championship. But for this it is necessary to take only the first place in the group.
The next game of the Turkmen hockey players with the Turkish national team will be held on April 28.
