New Zealand - Slovakia - 1:1 (0:0): Team Slovakia in their first match at this World Cup has failed to win a modest team of New Zealand.
Teams Slovakia and New Zealand - rare visitors at the world championships. For the European team this mundial will be the first in their history since the division of Czechoslovakia.
New Zealand could expect something more than the role of extras in group F. But a team of Slovakia are different. Some consider it of peasant accidentally shot in the qualification, while others expect from this Eastern European team out in the playoffs. In any case, to fight all converge in one - a match against New Zealand clearly should not have become a problem for the Trust Vladimir Weiss.
From the first minutes of Team New Zealand unexpectedly took the initiative in their hands, but as so often happens at this championship go on the attack players clearly did not intend. The islanders attacked in the main canopies from the left flank, and that's the ninth minute Fallon struck his head on the way the ball got someone from the defenders of the Slovak national team
Fifteen-minute rest did not change the balance of forces in the field, Slovakia began the second half active, and New Zealand is mostly played on the counterattack. In the 50th minute active Shestack arranged jerk on the right flank and hung in the penalty box,
The left wing began to attack the islanders, was followed by a canopy in the penalty box and defender Reid, logged into the attack, a brilliant stroke his head to give New Zealand's first points at the world championships.