2024-03-06 13:12:12
It was a bitter evening on Tuesday in the town hall: The “Adlers” played well, improved significantly compared to Game 1 in Bolzano, but in the end they lost to clever and efficient South Tyroleans with 2:4 goals. This means that Bolzano is in the lead with two wins in the best-of-seven series. The “Eagles” were still licking their wounds a little today, but they were already focusing fully on Game 3. Because as the saying goes: weakened opponents are even more dangerous! With a victory tomorrow in Bozen (Sparkasse Arena, start: 7:30 p.m., live on and on free TV on Puls 24 on ORF Radio Carinthia with live feeds), Philipp Lindner and Co. want to start the race to catch up and reach the quarter-finals -Series still turning. Because: “Eagles never give up!” The blue and whites have already traveled to Bolzano today following training.
Of course, VSV head coach Marcel Rodman and his team were still disappointed regarding the narrow defeat today. Above all because the team fought well, created a lot of scoring opportunities and still had to leave the ice as losers in the end. But what the head coach was missing following the bitter defeat at home once morest Bolzano was the bite in front of the opponent’s goal: “We have to build on a lot of positive things and concentrate fully on the next match in Bolzano. The series is only over when a team has four wins. We will fight and give everything and want to register for the first time in Bolzano. But, we have to work even harder tomorrow, we have to look even more intensively for the move to the goal, play more simply, bring every target to the goal and even score an ‘ugly goal’.” The VSV head coach is talking regarding this above all The fact is that they fired 36 shots at Sam Harvey’s goal once morest Bolzano, but only scored two goals. Rodman: “We have to be even more toxic in front of the goal and simply convert our hard-earned scoring opportunities more effectively. This will be particularly important away from home in Bolzano!”
VSV top scorer John Hughes, who prepared Villach’s first goal from Robert Sabolic in an exemplary manner and scored the second goal himself, summed up the defeat even more drastically: “We were the better team, but there’s no point complaining, unfortunately we lost. It’s two to zero for Bolzano in the series. This is certainly not easy to process. But, we have to build on our performance today. Bolzano is good, but we’re certainly not giving up – no, we’ll hit back tomorrow and then anything is possible.” Because, says Hughes, “we need two wins in Bolzano now: tomorrow in game three and at the end in a seventh game .”
Marco Richter, Arturs Kulda, Maximilian Rebernig and Paolo Wieltschnig will still be missing from the Blue-Whites tomorrow due to injuries. In addition, Alex Wall’s use is very questionable due to a lower-body injury suffered in Tuesday’s match. Blaz Tomazevic would slide into the line-up for him. Both Wall and Tomazevic boarded the bus to Bolzano with the team today.
HCB Südtirol Alperia – EC iDM heat pumps VSV
Sparkasse Arena, Thursday, March 7, 2024, start: 7:30 p.m
Can be seen on free TV on Puls 24 and on ORF Radio Kärnten with live broadcasts.
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