On February 14th, the Starbulls Rosenheim met the polar bears from Regensburg in the ROFA-Stadium.
The tension before the top game was great.
The message in the wording:
Rosenheim
- The Star Bulls Rosenheim have the polar bears Regensburg on Sunday night in the home ROFA Stadium
5: defeated 2
.
Thanks to the convincing appearance, in which the green-whites were
not irritated
by the 1: 2 deficit in the meantime
, the Starbulls even sat at the
top of
the
table.
Just like Regensburg, the Rosenheim team has now captured 66 points after 27 games, but has the better goal difference.
The summit meeting between the Starbulls and the polar bears will be held again on Tuesday,
then in Regensburg (8 p.m.)
.
The Starbulls team were back in the top game with defender Tobias Draxinger and striker Kyle Gibbons, who had been spared two days earlier in the 8-0 win against bottom-of-the-table Landsberg.
Striker Kevin Slezak and defender Benedikt Dietrich, who are in training, were still missing.
The guests had next to the injured striker Tomas Gulda on Captain Peter Flat
forego
the einhandelte on Friday evening for unsportsmanlike conduct, a game misconduct, as the Regensburger home game against yourself Wolves (5: 4 after extra time)
already finished
was.
You can read the live ticker from the top game of the Starbulls Rosenheim against the Eisbären Regensburg here (plus article).
The intense top game between the Starbulls and the polar bears was
on the knife edge
until the beginning of the
last third
.
The Starbulls took the lead shortly before the first third break.
Michael Baindl and Alexander Höller had
few options
against four opposing players in the Regensburg zone
, but thanks to assertiveness and a bit of luck, Höller hit flat from five meters through the schooner of the visiting goalkeeper to make it 1-0 (19th).
Concentrated from the start
It was the reward for a committed Rosenheim appearance from the
very first minute
.
And at the beginning of the second half of the game, the home side could have scored more goals.
Enrico Henriquez-Morales had the greatest chances to do so, twice from a central position, he failed once against the good guest goalkeeper Patrick Berger and once
missed
the empty Regensburg gate
(23rd).
The
home side were punished
for missing the chances
.
In a Regensburg outnumbered phase, Thomas Schwammberger, who started from his own third, was not disturbed on his journey across almost the entire ice surface and Rosenheim's goalkeeper Andreas Mechel
did not cut the happiest figure
with his wrist shot in the short corner
- 1: 1 (27th).
However, Mechel had previously reacted splendidly when Lukas Heger went it alone and prevented a Regensburg underpayed goal.
Both teams well prepared
There were now some
big chances on both sides
.
In a shot by Dominik Daxlberger, which Curtis Leinweber deflected, the post prevented Rosenheim's lead again (30th).
Instead, the guests were able to cheer again, because the Starbulls defended too aggressively or
switched too risky
, so that Richard Divis was able to complete a quick Regensburg counterattack with a dry low shot to 1: 2 (34th).
Again it was an overpayment goal for the guests from the Danube, but again not
a typical power play hit
.
The Starbulls were completely
unimpressed and remained vicious
- the quick equalizer was the logical consequence.
Kyle Gibbons showed all his class and sank the puck after a nice pass from Michael Baindl placed in the left corner to make it 2-2, although he was surrounded by three opponents (36th).
A minute later, the post saved again for the guests, this time after a solo by Tobias Meier (37th).
The score and the résumé of the game let
us
expect
an
exciting final third
, but it turned out differently.
The guests, who had previously shown a patient, serene, but always dangerous style of play, were
hardly
able to put themselves in the limelight against the extremely safe and concentrated offensive from Rosenheim
.
Above all, the green-whites did not make any mistakes, but took advantage of
the opponents' inadequacies as ice cold
.
Regensburg defensive had no chance
Enrico Henriques-Morales licked Petr Heider at the blue line of the Rosenheim zone, picked up the pace, shook off Nikola Gajovsky, who was chasing him, and
sank technically brilliantly in front of goalkeeper Berger
to make it 3-2 (44th).
In the majority, Dennis Schütt increased with a wrist shot from the blue line in the upper left corner to 4: 2 (47th), when the Regensburg defense
acted less quickly
than in their four outnumbered challenges in the first two thirds of the game.
And the fact that Kyle Gibbons was able to dust off the 5-2 final score (55th) after goalkeeper Berger was still able to save against Daxlberger, had the origin of a
bad pass
from Richard Divis in his own third in an actually unspectacular situation New edition of the top game, then in the Regensburg "Stadtwerk.Donau-Arena".
First
Bully is at 20 o'clock
.
Press release Starbulls Rosenheim eV