Semifinal B-pool: Netherlands - Germany 4:6 (1:4, 1:2, 2:0)

After they played a very pleasing premilary round, the Dutch team acted very bad in that B-playoff semifinal. Germany had no problems to keep an early lead after two terrible goalkeeper mistakes which lead to a 2:0 for the German team after seven minutes. Finally, Germany beat the Netherlands 6:4 and will have to improve to be relegated to A group against Poland or Hungary.\oint