The Russian national team defeated the Austrians, scoring eight goals

The Russian national team with a score of 8:4 defeated the team of Austria in the last match of the group stage of the World Championship, which takes place in Sweden and Finland.

During the meeting the Russians gave way in the lead, but were able to win.

Goals in the Russian team scored eight different players. Distinguished Alexander Perezhogin, Ilya Kovalchuk, Ilya Nikulin, Alexander Radulov and Sergei Mozyakin, Sergei Soin, Nikita Zaitsev and Evgeny Kuznetsov. The best player of the match in the Russians was recognized Nikulin.

Do Austrians goals from Matthias Iberer, Thomas Vanek, Michael Ruffle and Florian Iberer. Conceding two goals at the start of the match, the team of Austria was able to fight back and even come out ahead. In the middle of the second period, the score was 4-4 but after that the goals are scored only Russians.

Austrians performed 36 shots on goal against Russia. Russian hockey players threw on goal only 18 times.

The Russian national team in seven matches of the group stage scored 15 points and became the leader of the group H ("Helsinki"). However, its final place in the group depends on the outcome of matches Slovakia - U.S. and Latvia - Finland. As for the Austrian national team, it is with five points ranked last in the group and in 2014 will not be playing in the world championship in the top division.