After another 2: 3 defeat in overtime, forward Radan Lenc admitted that it was not easy for the psyche of Liberec hockey players to absorb Sparta’s return to the semifinal series, but also stressed that the chances are still open.
“It’s not easy to try. Again, we were close to doing it. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen, so we have to regenerate well and put everything into the seventh match, which he decides,” Lenc told an online press conference.
Even in the sixth match of the series, the White Tigers showed that the leadership of the opponent would not put them down and managed to return to the match.
“We don’t give up and we say to ourselves in almost every situation that there is still a chance. We feel that as a team we have the strength and we believe that we can succeed, until the last minute. We brought the match to overtime again, but unfortunately twice after did not work out, “the Czech representative regretted.
With the exception of the second duel in the series, Liberec never scored the opening goal. Lenc also acknowledged the importance of the goalie.
“Today we managed to equalize again, but it’s definitely not the style of the match we would like to play. It is not easy to catch up with matches and also against such a strong team as Sparta. It is very difficult for us not to be able to shoot first Therefore, I would like if we managed to break it in the seventh match and we had the match under control from the beginning, “the pupil wished Mladá Boleslav.
Sparta, which won the basic part and was the main favorite for the playoffs to win the title, also showed its strength in the sixth match of the series, and the North Bohemians could not change the promotion match for the third time. The series is thus moving to Prague again for the decisive seventh match.
“I don’t know if Sparta has reached its standard. The course of the series was clear at the beginning and everything looked rosy at 3-0. But if we look at it differently, we would definitely take 3: 3 before the start of the semifinals and we would like to that we have a chance to fight for the promotion to the finals, so we have to take it positively and prepare for the seventh decisive duel, “said Lenc, the best scorer of the elimination fights with ten assists.
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