Ice Hockey World Championship: Germany against the Czech Republic in the live ticker – DEB team wants revenge

Created: 2022-05-26Updated: 2022-05-26 2:13 PM

By: Christoph Klaucke

Germany meets the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals of the Ice Hockey World Championship.

The DEB team is dying for revenge.

We accompany the game at 3.20 p.m. in the live ticker.

• Ice Hockey World Championship: Germany – Czech Republic -:- (-:-), (-:-), (-:-), Thursday, 3:20 p.m

• Germany

  in the

  quarterfinals

  : DEB team played the best World Cup preliminary round in its history

• Revenge

  against the

  Czech Republic

  : Germany failed in the 2019 World Cup quarter-finals

• Toni Söderholm

  before

  seeing you again

  : DEB coach meets his former coach

• This ticker is continuously updated

Germany – Czech Republic -:-

Helsinki – The Ice Hockey World Championship is entering the decisive phase.

The knockout games will begin with the quarter-finals between Germany and the Czech Republic on Thursday (3:20 p.m./Sport1 and MagentaSport).

After the best preliminary round of the World Cup in its history, the DEB team is full of self-confidence going into the duel with their neighbors - and they still have a score to settle.

Germany in the quarterfinals: DEB team played the best preliminary round in its history at the Ice Hockey World Cup

The selection of the German Ice Hockey Federation had secured second place in the preliminary round with five wins from seven games and, like last year in Riga, now wants to survive the first knockout round.

The team of coach Toni Söderholm even took the final penalty defeat in the ice hockey fireworks and bloody fight against Switzerland as an encouragement.

"If we keep doing our work, we'll have a chance against every opponent," assured defender Korbinian Holzer.

Attacker Marcel Noebels warned: "On Thursday nobody will ask how we played in the preliminary round.

The only thing that counts is win or lose.” In the event of a defeat, the World Cup is over for the German team.

If you win in Tampere, you have twice the chance of a medal.

Germany wants revenge against the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals of the Ice Hockey World Championship.

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The DEB team also has the chance to take revenge for the 5-1 loss to the Czechs in the 2019 World Cup quarter-finals.

The Czechs played a mixed preliminary round.

The twelve-time world champion left the ice as a loser three times, including an embarrassing bankruptcy against outsiders Austria.

After the early Olympic exit, the Czechs are in a state of upheaval.

"At this World Cup they are playing with different tactics than in the past, they work well together as a team and, as usual, are characterized by technically good players," said national coach Söderholm.

Toni Söderholm before seeing you again: DEB coach meets his former coach

For Toni Söderholm, the game against the Czech Republic will be a reunion with his former coach Kari Jalonen.

As a player, the 44-year-old once won the Finnish championship under Jalonen in Helsinki.

Now the two Finns face each other in the same hall as opponents.

Jalonen has been training the Czech team since March and is expected to make a fresh start.

"I have huge respect for Kari," said Söderholm, who learned a lot from his compatriot.

The national coach also emphasized: "We don't want it to be about us.

It's about the game.”