If the Imports concede the goals: EHC Olten loses to EHC Winterthur 2:4
EHC Olten lost to EHC Winterthur 2:4 in front of 2052 spectators. Worrying: In three of the four goals conceded, the Olten parade line with imports Guillaume Asselin and Eric Faille is on the ice.
Unlucky in the end, non-existent in defensive play: more can be expected from top scorer Guillaume Asselin at EHC Olten.
The mood in the stands among the 2,052 spectators had long since reached zero when the disc was in the opponent’s goal once again. 22 seconds before the end, Mattheo Reinhard reduced the score to 2:4, and the joy of the Oltner audience at the second goal of the evening amounted to a mocking cheer. EHC Olten lost 2:4 in front of their own crowd against sixth-placed EHC Winterthur.
Above all, the way in which this 8th defeat in the 13th game of the season came about must give EHC Olten a lot to think about. The EHCO literally overran the Winterthur team for a whole third, the goal scoring statistics were 13:5 after the first twenty minutes and yet the Olten team had to be content with a 1:1 at the first break. After a remarkable goal from Weder on a pass from Sterchi, Winterthur’s Hornecker somewhat fortunately equalized the game with an unstoppable deflected shot.
The Oltner top line tries to score the goals, but gets them.
The hair-raising negative balance of imports
It seemed as if, contrary to the course of the game, this situation was reason enough for the Oltner team structure, which is currently so fragile, to fall apart as the game progressed. Because in the middle section the EHCO suddenly acted without ideas and without a recipe. He didn’t want to succeed anymore – coherent game combinations? None.
An unclean pass was followed by a bad puck reception, countless bad decisions were followed by dozens of puck losses. And so the EHCO fell behind with an announcement: Lucas Hedlund gave Winterthur a 2-1 lead with a powerful wrist shot (26th).
EHC Olten, who competed without the injured Horansky, remained committed and tried to fight their way back into the game with intense physical play. But the only chances that were created were the Oltner parade line, which was extremely unfortunate in the end. Symptomatic of the current situation at EHC Olten, Faille, Asselin and Rehak worked out a 3:2 situation, but one pass landed on the skate of a Winterthur player, whereupon 2:1 goal scorer Hedlund eliminated all five Olten players on the ice with a pass Lehmann ideally staged it. Winterthur’s top scorer coldly won his one-on-one against goalkeeper Rötheli to make it 3-1.
Finally, ex-Oltner Devin Muller punished EHC Olten in the final third for a bad flying change to make it 4-1. It was the end of the extremely efficient Winterthur goal spectacle.
EHCO top scorer Guillaume Asselin fails one-on-one against Winterthur’s goalkeeper Damian Stettler.
The particularly worrying thing about the whole thing: Olten’s parade line was on the ice in three out of four goals and was given a real lesson in how simple ice hockey could be played. Guillaume Asselin ended the game with a minus-3 balance, Eric Faille even with a minus-4 because he stepped onto the ice just as the fourth goal was scored on the counterattack.
After the game, the EHCO players found it difficult to find words for the low point. This game is symbolic of how their season has progressed, says Simon Sterchi at the end in the stadium interview. “But I think it doesn’t start with the goals conceded. We lead 1-0 and then we take things up a notch. “For me it’s incomprehensible,” he says.
Defender Janis Elsener stated disappointedly that “a certain emptiness” could be seen in the dressing room at the end. And Dominic Weder looked for the reasons for the inexplicable change in momentum after the first third, “as if we had suddenly completely forgotten how to play ice hockey,” said the 1-0 goalscorer and explained: “We make so many wrong decisions, try to Principle hope to play a pass. But once it’s a 50/50 pass, you just shouldn’t play it anymore. In addition, we are never present on the ice as a five-player unit. If even one person doesn’t move well, you’ll lose to every opponent in this league. We have to get this under control better yesterday than today.”
On Sunday, away at EHC Chur, EHC Olten completed a 9-point week, the main goal of which was already missed on Tuesday in the 3-2 defeat against Bellinzona: to finally usher in a turnaround with convincing performances. But instead of admiring goals from the Olten parade line, the Olten audience witnesses how the Imports score the goals.
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Olten – Winterthur 2:4 (1:1, 0:2, 1:1)
Kindling. – 2052 spectators. – SR Potocan/Weber, Ammann/Dufner. – Goals: 5. Neither (Sterchi, Obrist) 1:0. 13. Hornecker (McShane, Muller) 1:1. 26. Hedlund (Lekic, Ortenszky) 1:2. 37. Lehmann (Hedlund, Warmbrodt) 1:3. 48. Muller (Embacher) 1:4. 60. (59:38) Reinhard (Madaschi, Kaser) 2:4. – Penalties: none.
Olten: Rötheli (Liechti); Elsener, Oejdemark; Kurt, Antonietti; Wyss, Schmuckli; Moser; Rehak, Faille, Asselin; Obrist, Weder, Sterchi; Sever, Reinhard, Jabola Prada; Kaser, Melnalksnis, Madaschi.
Winterthur: Stettler (Von Burg); Koster, Ugazzi; Steiner, Landolt; March, Ortenszky; Quinn, Warmbrodt; Hornecker, McShane, Muller; Hedlund, Lehmann, Lekic; Kaufmann, Ogi, Vlcek; Antenen, Embacher, Staiger.
Comments: Olten without De Nisco, Burger, Horansky (all injured) and Meier (ill). Winterthur without Neumann, Betschmann, Furrer (all injured). 53. Crossbar shot Hornecker.
