MHC ladies German runner-up: bad luck and luck in the penalty shootout

Hockey. The Final Four 2021 for the German field hockey championship for women and men on the grounds of the Mannheim hockey club will go down as a special event in the history of hockey in this country, after all, due to the Corona regulations, no spectators were allowed on site and the fans were thus shifted Possibility to be part of the live stream offer from twich.tv/trops4. A possibility that by far not only die-hard hockey fans made active use of at the weekend.

After the top event planned for 2020 at the MHC had to be canceled due to Corona and therefore no German champions were determined in 2020, the seasons 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 were merged into one season 2019/20/21, which last Sunday after 609 Days with the German championship titles of the Düsseldorf HC (women) and Rot-Weiss Köln (men) in the MHC Arena on Neckarplatt came to an end. The MHC women came closer than ever to their first title win in field hockey, as it was 1: 1 (0: 1) in the final against Düsseldorf after 60 minutes after Emma Hessler with the Düsseldorf HC in half time from the penalty corner Had shot 1-0 (18th) in the front, while the MHC women also scored the 1-1 (57th) from Florencia Habif’s penalty corner in half two.
After the 60 minutes had expired, the penalty shoot-out had to decide who would win the championship cup and after five shooters the decision was made 2: 3 to the detriment of the MHC women, who thus defeated the Düsseldorfer HC 3: 4 in the DM final ( 1: 1, 0: 1) had to admit defeat after a penalty shootout. For the women of the blue-white-reds, immediately after the defeat in the final, it was no consolation that, as German runner-up, like the champions Düsseldorf, they bought the ticket for the European Hockey League (EHL) and will probably lose it at Easter 2022 play the European club crown in field hockey.

What it feels like to win a penalty shootout in the Final Four, the team had learned from MHC women’s trainer Nicklas Benecke a good 24 hours beforehand. Because the MHC women defeated Rot-Weiss Cologne 5: 4 (1: 1, 0: 0) after a penalty shoot-out and moved into the DM final. MHC goalkeeper Lisa Schneider defused the sixth Cologne penalty, which is why the blue-white-reds won the shootout 4: 3, which in the overall billing given the hits in regular time by Rebecca Grote for Cologne (47th / seven meters) and Sonja Zimmermann for the MHC (49th / Strafecke) meant the 5-4 victory for Mannheim. The Düsseldorf HC also had to go to the penalty shoot-out in their semi-finals and eliminated the defending champions Club on the Alster Hamburg on Saturday after 60 minutes of goalless play with 3: 2 (0: 0, 0: 0).

In the men’s semifinals, too, there was a penalty shootout between Mannheimer HC and defending champion Uhlenhorst Mülheim and this will not be remembered well at the MHC, as the blue-white-reds gave the decision in the shootout on the fifth attempt, which then happened should avenge already in the first additional couple, when Timm Herzbruch shot the Ruhrstadters to 6: 5 (2: 2, 1: 1) victory after penalty shootout.

In the regular season, MHC penalty corner specialist Gonzalo Peillat had twice equalized the Mülheim lead. The dream of winning the German championship title on their own facility, as in 2017, was over for the MHC men, who at least managed to get number three in the EHL. In the DM final on Sunday, Uhlenhorst Mülheim faced west rivals Rot-Weiss Köln, who prevailed 6: 4 (2: 2) in the semifinals against Berlin HC. After the titles in 2018 and 2019, the Mülheimers didn’t win the championship cup this time, because Rot-Weiss Köln won it for the ninth time with a 1-0 (0-0) final victory.

Masters Cologne and runners-up Mülheim have also qualified for the EHL, although it remains to be seen, especially for the men, which mode will be used in the EHL season 2021/2022, which could then also affect the size of the field of participants . will

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