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After the Augsburg Panthers had safely left grains in Wolfsburg on Friday (they turned a 0: 4 to win points after regular time), there was still enough strength to beat the Nürnberg Ice Tigers 3: 1 (1: 0, 2: 0 , 0: 1) to wrestle down.
With the Panthers in goal was Markus Keller, who had to replace the injured Olivier Roy. Research this week will show how the Augsburg team’s first goalie is doing. Keller had definitely had a very good evening and just missed the shutout. The team played forward with a lot of vigor and you quickly noticed that Nürnberg was also inferior in terms of physical play. The fact that it was only 1-0 after the first third was more than flattering, but it was also due to the Augsburg team’s poor exploitation of chances. Only Vinny Saponari was able to place the disc in the goal of the Ice Tigers.
Nuremberg developed clearer chances at the beginning of the middle section and was now determining the game. In this pressure it was the Augsburgers, more precisely Chad Nehring, who worked the puck into the Nürnberger Tor. That wasn’t enough, 23 seconds later Adam Payerl hit the crossbar to make it 3-0. Shortly afterwards, Keller was also lucky enough to be able to do well when a man from Nuremberg just hit the post. So you went into the dressing room with a reassuring three-goal lead.
It was not surprising that the Panthers managed the result in the last part of the game rather than playing on attack. It was called saving strength and so it came to the honor hit of the Ice Tigers by Blake Parlett. Nürnberg took their goalkeeper off the ice two minutes before the end to try anything more with a field player, but no more goals were scored on either side.
The Augsburg Panthers receive the championship leader from Munich on October 15th, while Krefeld welcomes Nuremberg.
Augsburger Panther – Nürnberg Ice Tigers 3:1 (1:0, 2:0, 0:1)
Tore: 1: 0 (15:26) Saponari (Graham, Magnus Eisenmenger); 2: 0 (37:29) Nehring (Puempel); 3: 0 (37:52) Payerl (Campbell, Clarke); 3: 1 (42:20) Parlett (Kislinger, Ustdorf).
Penalties: Augsburg 4, Nuremberg 4.
Sascha Ratzinger
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