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After the historically first loss to Austria at the World Hockey World Championships, disappointment prevailed in the Czech team. Captain Roman Červenka was austere during the evaluation of the duel, it was difficult to extract continuous sentences.
Despite the 1: 2 loss after the raids with the paper outsider, however, they do not think that they would make anything easier for their teammates in Tuesday’s B-group match.
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“We should have decided earlier not to have to play until the last minute. Then it fell there. I don’t know, I can’t judge if our performance was lax. We have created some chances. I don’t know if there were enough of them. They didn’t play badly, but we probably had to score more goals so that it didn’t turn out the way it did. We have to shake and move on. We will definitely sit down and talk about today’s loss. We will deal with it. ” quoted Červenka idnes.cz.
The Czechs ran lukewarmly and got little to the end. Two minutes before the end of the first period, Červenka added the first goal of the championship to the six assists, but in the further course the Austrians did not let the enthusiasts of the Finnish coach Kari Jalonen under constant pressure.
With a disciplined performance, they finally brought the match into power play and Brian Lebler equalized 38 seconds before the end of regular playing time. In the overtime, Filip Hronek chose a trick among the skates in a huge chance, failed and they ended up in the raids of Hertl, Červenka, Blümel, Smejkal and Krejčí.
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For the first time in the history of the World Cup, the Czechs did not win over this opponent, before that 17 times in due time and 22 times including the Olympic Games. According to Červenka, however, these are not the worst moments he experienced during the national team. “The tournament is long, but we definitely need to improve. I’m not happy when it loses. Well, I don’t think anyone would do that. We already went to the raids mentally broken, “ added the 36-year-old forward of the Swiss Rapperswil.
The Czech media did not spare criticism after the surprising loss. “Blamáž, the outsider settled in the end and managed the raids,” reported the headline of the sports section of the idnes.cz portal. “An unsuccessful duel with a rookie. Schneider decided in the raids, “wrote blesk.cz. “Shock, historical embarrassment. Barren Czechs succumbed to the Austrians. The former player of Kometa scored a decisive hit for them, “added sport.cz.
Bronze over gold. The French almost demolished the Piešťany stadium with joy:
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