Austria messes up the start of “B-WM-Ersatz”

Austria’s national team started the “Beat Covid-19 Ice Hockey Tournament” in Ljubljana with a 1: 3 defeat against hosts Slovenia. On Monday (1:00 p.m. live on ORF Sport +) Poland is waiting for the team of team boss Roger Bader at the replacement tournament for the Division IA World Cup, which was canceled due to the pandemic. The other opponents of the ÖEHV team are Ukraine, Romania and France.

Mistakes ruin your dream start

The Austrians got off to a perfect start against the Slovenes thanks to Bernd Wolf (5th), but acted defensively but indisposed. Only 25 seconds after the 1-0 win, Ziga Pesut managed to equalize. Less than two minutes later, Gregor Koblar (7th) made it 2-1 after Kickert had messed up the puck. While Austria subsequently expressed major problems in building up the game, the Slovenes, with many players from Jesenice and Olimpija Ljublijana returning to the ICE League, accepted another invitation from the Austrian defense in the form of Blaz Tomazevic to lead the 3-1 lead (15th). .

Red-white-red increased from the middle third, but with all the effort, there were hardly any good opportunities to shoot and ran in vain against an increasingly defensive opponent until the end. “We certainly had slight advantages from the second third. Unfortunately we didn’t take our chances. We have to correct this for the next games and find our way into the game better right from the start, ”said team boss Bader.

Test run for Olympic qualification

For the players this week, the main aim is to recommend themselves for the Olympic qualification tournament from August 26th to 29th in Bratislava. Several experienced and long-time team players are missing from the internationally inexperienced squad of team boss Roger Bader, above all the injured team captain Thomas Raffl. But neo-Salzburg Peter Schneider made his comeback after recovering from injury.

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