Villages are only one point away from staying up

Created: 03/01/2022, 09:45 am

By: Georg Brennauer

Celebrated hero: ESC goalkeeper Luca Endres and the Red Blue Army fans are happy about a saved penalty and his shutout.

© Dominik Findelsberger

One point from six more games – ESC Dorfen should be able to do that.

Maybe on Friday against TSV Erding.

Dorfen

– For the puck hunters of ESC Dorfen, staying up in the Bayernliga is within reach.

After four wins in a row, the Ice Pirates were slowed down slightly with a 3:4 defeat after extra time in the second leg in Königsbrunn (we reported).

But at least the Dorfeners took a point home from Swabia and increased the points account to 13 points after six games.

Theoretically, the Isenstadt team only need one point from six games if Königsbrunn should win two games against Geretsried and Erding in the last two games.

In the event of a tie, the goal difference would count.

"So we can't lean back," warned Dorfen's head of ice hockey, Manfred Detterbeck.

At the press conference after the 6-0 home win against Pfaffenhofen on Friday, ESC coach Franz Steer spoke of his team playing brilliantly in the first third.

There was special praise for goalie Luca Endres, who even defused two absolutely goal-ready counterattacks and also managed a shutout for the first time.

According to Steer, the performance of his oldest player, Gaspr Susanj, is also remarkable.

"That's how you win games", as Pfaffenhofen's coach Steve Pepin remarked: "No pain, no game."

According to Steer, it was a collective victory for the entire team.

The third row also scored a goal.

"Two goals, please," was the interjection from young striker Josef Folger.

Steer made it clear: “I don't want to have anything to do with the back this round and I want to win at home next Friday as well.

"Against whom?" Spontaneously the echo in the ESC restaurant: "Against Erding!"

Pfaffenhofen's coach Pepin regretted that his team couldn't repeat the performance of the 3-1 win at home against Königsbrunn.

In summary: "We played catastrophically bad today."

Steer complained that his team didn't start well in the 3:4 defeat in Königsbrunn in Dorfen.

Königsbrunn put the pressure on and played well on the body.

"Then the boys showed character and after the 0: 1 and 0: 3 equalized until the next break." The 3: 4 in overtime was only annoying, "when two of our players ran over each other during the change, so that Königsbrunn could start with two against one in the game three against three".

Königsbrunn's coach Sven Rampf was satisfied with his team's performance.

Less so with the referees: "There was probably someone there who had never seen an ice hockey game." What annoyed him: a time penalty "with a normal check".