USA vs Canada, 12.15 GMT
Our Pick: Canada Win @13/8
The United States team punched its ticket on Thursday with a 6-1 quarterfinal win over Slovakia. The Americans opened the tournament with a 2-1 loss to the defending champions from Finland, but have since won seven games in a row.
The Canadians have bounced back after a very slow start, when they scored just two goals in their first three games. They opened with a 2-0 shutout loss to the tournament hosts, marking the first time that Latvia had ever beaten Canada at the World Championship. Three days later, after Canada was humbled in a 5-1 loss to team USA, Germany also earned its first-ever win over the Canadians, by a score of 3-1. But now Canada are up and running can they be beat?
Finland vs Germany, 4.15 GMT
Our Pick: Finland win @4/6
The teams faced each other on May 29 in the group stage of the championship. The match turned out to be tense, because both teams were fighting for first place in the table and ended with a football score of 2:1 in favor of the Finnish national team. The Finns were the first to open the scoring in the seventh minute-Lundell converted the majority, and then, as expected, went on the defensive. However, the German squad restored parity in the eighth minute (Holzer). Ruatsalainen scored the winning goal (after Lundell’s assist) in the 52nd minute.
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