The Blue-Yellows started the tournament brilliantly, destroying the Polish team in their opening match with a score of 6:1. And in the second confrontation, our team met with the hosts of the competition - Italians.

The match ended with a crushing victory of Ukrainian hockey players with a score of 6:3.

The beginning of the meeting was unsuccessful for the Ukrainians - the hosts hit the gates of our team twice. However, even before the end of the first period, the Blue-Yellows won back one missed goal..

At the beginning of the second period, the Italians again increased their lead to two goals.. And yet, the second period became a turning point in this meeting - the Ukrainians answered with their 4 goals, which put the Italian team in a difficult position.

In the final period, Ukraine scored another goal and put an end to this fight.

U-18 World Championship. Division 1B Italy U-18 Ukraine U18 – 3:6 (2:1; 1:4; 0:1) Pucks: 1:0 Luciano Zandejacomo (Mathias Kaslunger), 05:35; 2:0 Tommy Perdeller, 08:33; 2:1 Nikita Sidorenko (Ilya Dubsky - under.

), 14:07; 3:1 Albis Olmo, 20:45; 3:2 Demyan Tychenko, 21:56; 3:3 Anton Yatsishin (Sergey Stetsyura), 22:35; 3:4 Sergey Stetsyura, 25:31; 3:5 Nikita Sidorenko (bullet), 31:43; 3:6 Mikhail Kovalchuk (Demyan Tychenko), 43:57.

Standings Ukraine U-18 - 6 points (2 wins) Hungary U-18 - 6 points (2 wins) Slovenia U-18 - 3 points (1 win, 1 loss) Italy U-18 - 3 points (1 win, 1. The team that finishes the performance in the last position moves to the lower class - ІІА.