AMBRÌ – LANGNAU
(0-2, 1-1, 2-1)
Rarely: 13’51 Saarela 0-1, 17’44 Rohrbach (Saarijärvi, Kristof) 0-2, 24’24 Flavio dirt (Julian Dirt, Riikola) 0-3, 30’30 Cuban (Virtanen, Dwarves) 1-3, 47’37 Heed (Bürgler) 2-3, 52’04 From Luke (Heed, Curran) 33. 53’18 A peso (Guggenheim) 3-4
Note: Gottardo Arena, 6,509 spectators
Referees: Hebeisen, Tscherrig; Cattaneo, Schlegel
Penalty: Ambrì 2×2, Langnau 4×2
Absent: Rocco Pezzullo (injured), Janne Juvonen, Jonathan Ang, Team Muggli, Simone Terraneo, William Hedlund (supernumerary)
AMBÌ – It definitely was the least convincing Ambrì Piotta of the season the one who came out beaten on Friday in the match against Langnau, and even if in the third period the Leventina players seemed to have found a way to still obtain a positive result from an evening that was born wrong, ultimately the team of Cereda he received the lesson he deserved.
In fact, it took too long to see the blue and whites make their legs the right pace to impose your game on Langnauwho for his part was good at making the most of the exceptional performance of Charlin between the posts. Guests have indeed hit as soon as they had the opportunityscoring in the first period after a mix-up by the Leventina team and taking advantage of the first powerplay of the evening shortly after.
However, Ambrì Piotta’s start to the match was too timidwho was unable to impart his rhythm to the match and was also held back by several inaccuracies, with a couple of offensive opportunities but within the scope of a rather messy maneuver with little involvement physicist.
Things certainly improved in the central period, when the intentions of the blue and whites of start checking the game they immediately appeared evident, although the heavy 3-0 he extremely complicated a situation he had seen Cereda modify practically all its lines.
At that point another possible decision also came from the bench to try to shake up the game, that is, the early closing of the evening Gilles Senn – not guilty of the three goals conceded – and the insertion of Davide Fadani. The Italian goalkeeper, making his seasonal debut after several matches in Bellinzona, performed well and also made some complicated interventions.
The match then started to change with the “stone” with which Cuban he struck Charlinwhich however showed off at least a couple of interventions in the central period highlights which prevented Ambrì from getting the evening back on track at that moment. Things didn’t look too promising in the third half. but a goal that came a bit out of nowhere Heed – who showed good offensive ideas, but in defense he is still far from his best form – and then a perfect touch in front of goal from From Luke they suddenly turned on the Ambrì.
At that juncture the team however Too bad a bit of calm and maturityshe got caught up in the moment – which actually seemed propitious for completely turning the result around – and was punished in an instant. With the team unbalanced forward, Heed he let it slip A peso who went on to score the decisive goal, an episode from which Ambrì was never able to recover, appearing too drained to try for a new equalizer in the final.
All in all, a fair result, at the end of a performance that was the least convincing so far of the Leventina people – not a disaster, but too many things got stuck – and also in individual terms practically no one was able to shine or stand as a protagonist.
Who knows if the evening opaque of different elements will give way to Jonathan Ang to find space again after finishing as supernumerary for five consecutive games, or if the future holds a different shirt for him.
We’ll see. In the meantime, Ambrì will have to start again from the reaction shown to the difficulties of this match, but on Saturday in Lausanne he will have to demonstrate pace and determination from the first substitution. Furthermore, in the last two issues we have seen how high the price can be for an entry into the subject that is too timid.
Stephane Charlin: Only time will tell if the current Langnau goalkeeper really has what it takes to sign an NHL contract, but in the meantime Charlin continues to show off exceptional performances and the Tigers owe a lot of their success to him. Especially in the central period he made some really complicated interventions, key results for the inertia of the match.
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