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Italy rises to third place in the standings and sees the playoffs close thanks to two important successes on the penultimate day of the group. The Azzurri will play the final phase with the United States, Scotland and Switzerland.
Friday 8 April 2022 3 minutes reading time
Thanks to the best team performance offered so far (88%) at the World Cup in Las Vegas, the men's national team wins a very important match against Switzerland. Italy dominated more than the final score suggests (W / L at 5-3). In the second and fourth end, the Azzurri deserved to score more than one point. In particular, there were two decisive failures by Jöel Retornaz: the double in the eighth to avoid the stolen hand and the surgical promotion in the tenth, which forced the opponent skip, Yannick Schwaller, to burn the final stone, unable to score 2 points. To underline the performance of Amos Mosaner, simply devastating. If he rises with blows, we can really have fun after the 12th session of the group, full of surprises (Holland beat Scotland 5-4 and Canada lose the North American derby 10-6)
With a painful victory, at the extra end, after having risked a comeback from 4-1 ahead in the sixth, Italy beats the Czech Republic 6-5 and 2 games from the end of the group is third with a tie with 3 others national. Already qualified for the head-to-head stage Canada and Sweden with one day to spare. Up 1, with one man down and 3 potential opponents points at home, the promotion of Jöel Retornaz with the last shot in the tenth kept the challenge and the race for the dream called playoffs open. Equally important were the two stones placed very well in the house and the double fail on Sebastiano Arman's guards in the extra hand. Our second also threw the stones of Simone Gonin, previously expelled from the game for hitting and breaking the broom. One piece (the pad) ended up on the nearby track where the American skip was shooting. Today at 6 pm there is Norway and at 4 am the US to close the group stage.
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