U20: Preview Against Italy

Márton Vas and his coaching staff made a switch in net as Martin Szeles will get the start in net with Dávid Kovács serving as the backup. There were was one change in the lineup as Péter Andor will be on the first line with Bálint Horváth and Nátán Vértes, with Alex Kovács being the 13th forward, the rest of the lineup will be the same.

Itay started the tournament with a 3-0 loss to Slovenia, and beat the host nation Poland by the score of 3-1. For Italy Davide Fadini has started both games, on defence all seven players for Italy were in Budapest when Hungary faced them along with 11 of the forwards. Hungary took the November game by the score of 6-2. The head coach for Italy is Giorgio Bettin, who is also an assistant coach for the senior Italian national team, assisting him will be Fabio Armani and Roberto Scelfo. The leading scorer for Italy is Spinell who has a goal and an assist through two games. Other players to keep an eye on are Deluca and Kasslater, both are productive forwards who are playing in the Swiss U20. Italy has about half their roster playing in Switzerland or Germany in the junior leagues. The rest of the roster plays in Italy in the Alps League where they are going up against adult player, which is much like the Hungarian players playing in the ERSTE Liga.

Lineup against Italy
Péter A., Horváth B., Vértes  
Szalma, Papp, Mihály              
Révész, Császár, Madácsi
Péter D., Kreisz, Dézsi
Kovács A.

Sándor, Fejes
Kiss, Vas
Bugár, Seregély
Horváth M.

Szeles (Kovács D.)

World Championships Schedule
HUNGARY-Japan 3-1
HUNGARY-Ukraine 9-3
December 11th, 13:00: HUNGARY-Italy
December 12th, 20:00: HUNGARY-Slovenia
December 14th, 16:30: HUNGARY-Poland

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