Noa Vali played his first game of the tournament and the result was always a happy draw for the veskar.
Noa Vali played a clean sheet and received thanks from his teammates. PDO
The points balance of the Young Lions opened in the third match of the under-20 World Cup. Latvia fell clearly with numbers 4–0.
Finland’s goal scorers against Latvia were Jere Lassila (1+3), Jesse Pulkkinen, Kasper Halttunen and Oiva Keskinen.
There were many smiling faces in the booth on Friday early evening.
– It really was. We played a good game today and everyone feels better. There were two difficult games, goalkeeper Noa Vali said.
– There were quite a lot of smiling faces. At least more than after the last game, Ylöjärvi man Konsta Helenius stumbled.
Forced victory
Konsta Helenius already saw much better things in Finland. PDO
Vali played his first game in the tournament and a clean sheet. The massive knee pads were in the booth after the game – thanks to the teammates.
– Of course, the guys were a bit beat up, I guess that’s part of it. The opponent didn’t get a lot of chances today. My job was quite easy, I was able to be quite at peace. Jätkät played well, the TPS keeper, who saved 23 times, shared praise with his friends.
– Vali was very good in the goal today. Big kudos there. I myself had a lot of spots today, but I wasn’t able to vaccinate from spots, cage head Helenius said.
– We have to focus on that in the future. It looks good, we are going in a better direction.
Young Lions can no longer remain last in their group.
– Today we had to win, It didn’t matter how it came, Vali reminded.
Finland’s preliminary series ends on New Year’s Eve with a match against Sweden. Niklas Kokko played the first two games in goal, now it was Vali’s turn.
The coaching staff has a tricky place to fund a playing goalkeeper for the match against Sweden.
Is Vali in the goal?
– Don’t know yet. Let’s go one day at a time, we will hear about it for sure on Saturday.
The Sweden game starts on Sunday at 15:30. TV5 will show the match live.