With a defensive battle for the perfect weekend

It is likely to be as a scene, the Langnaus coach Heinz Ehlers’ had to beat hearts higher: Well over two minutes were still to play, the Freiburger rushed for a game center continuously, and as your Topskorer Julien wanted to shoot into the net Sprunger from the best Position to 2:2, threw himself Anton Gustafsson in the shot.

He did so, his special discipline, unorthodox: is head-on as a Stand-up Goalie from the eighties – the purists among the friends of the blocked shot, the hair may have stood to mountains. What was more important: Gustafsson did it, he reminded the hockey game otherwise, rather of the artist as a craftsman, blocked the shot Sprungers without regard to losses, prevented the compensation. Who is the style based interested?

And smiled, Ehlers and a few minutes later, satisfied, as he "was allowed to emphasize the combative performance". What got him most happy, had been the question. O Yes, a battle had been, this 3:1 in Freiburg, which was completed a few seconds after Gustafsson's Block with one hit Pascal Berger's into an empty net.

A battle, often a spasm, not always a good spectacle, with many Interruptions, Offsides, Icings and inaccuracies, the Latter especially in the case of Gottéron, and the Auer mixture of legs, sticks, again and again in this yellow-and-red, long, skates and upper bodies ran.

Big sacrifice

"defensive battle" called Larri Leeger, one of these long-Auer defenders, who were free citizens always in the way. Three shot blockages Leegers included the statisticians, no one came on this evening. He scored the game winner, 2:0, it was his Torpremiere as a long-Auer, Leeger moved last summer from the train to the Tigers. Of course, I look forward to him Leeger said. But his "main job" he had done even without a personal goal, because he was no goal on the ice. A typical long-Auer quote.

Ehlers has managed, more or less a whole team ticking. "Everyone's prepared to sacrifice himself for the other, because he knows that this would do it for him", describing it Leeger. You see small things like this, things would not have come to the most big. Here, only the don't be a Hero, the three gates, shoot, but also those of the three shots, blocks, goals stop. "The causes just as much, it relieves the Goalie, is all energy."

The Goalie, of course he has to be mentioned. Damiano Ciaccio, since Ivars Punnenovs failure not more goalkeepers 1a or 1b, but is the undisputed number 1: 71 of 72 shots he's to be held this weekend. So, the question is not whether the newly employed second Goalie, Viktor Östlund, soon will make its debut. "As long Ciaccio so good plays, it does not come into question to change", says Ehlers, clip and clear.

A swatter as a Motivation

With all the fight and commitment, discipline and sacrifice needed, it is also goals. The 1:0 by Stefan Rüegsegger and Leegers 2:0 fell, as Langnaus fourth storm line on the ice. This was Ehlers: "For a while skorten almost only the foreigners."

And so, the tiger with 3:1 in Freiburg won in that hall, in which they had conceded at the first visit, in mid-November with a 3:10 is a rare swatter. Yes, he had once again spoken about this game, said Ehlers, immediately before the game: "I said that this 3:must be 10 Motivation." 18:36 was at the end of the shot ratio, 3:18 in the middle third, which was still 1:0 to Langnau. Here, too, was at the end: Who is the style based interested?

(Berner Zeitung)

Created: 13.01.2019, 21:34 PM