Geretsrieder River Rats lose at the start of the season against EA Schongau with 3:7.
Geretsried – Missed premiere for the new coach Stefan Roth: At the start of the Bayernliga, the Geretsrieder River Rats suffered a bitter 3:7 (1:2, 2:3, 0:2) home defeat against EA Schongau on Sunday.
The coach didn't want to accept the fact that the team could hardly train during the week due to illness as an excuse: “Today we had three complete blocks on the ice.
The people who don't usually stand in the front row have to get involved." However, the ESC was the worse team over 60 minutes: "We weren't efficient enough."
Because the home side were by no means without a chance.
However, one often had the impression that the Schongauers were physically and mentally a little bit faster.
The River Rats, who were missing Florian Strobl, Klaus Berger and Dominic Fuchs, were 2-0 down after twelve minutes.
Gradually the team got going and Ondrej Horvath made it 1:2 (16th).
When Marek Haloda equalized shortly after the restart, "we thought things were going to improve now," said Stefan Roth.
But three avoidable goals from Schongau within just three minutes meant the early knockout for the Rats, even if Daniel Merl reduced the deficit to 3:5 (34th).
In the final section, the Mammuts quickly increased their lead to 7:3.
Geretsried had good opportunities in the last ten minutes, especially on the power play, but didn't get any results.
"That was a good training session with a man down," joked EAS trainer Rainer Höfler.
River Rats - Schongau 3: 7 (1: 2, 2: 3, 0: 2).
- Goals: 0:1 (7:01) F. Höfler (5-4), 0:2 (11:12) Klein (5-4), 1:2 (15:41) Horvath (May 5-4) , 2:2 (22:32) Haloda (Horvath 5-4), 2:3 (24:52) Gagnon, 2:4 (25:03) Velebny (5-4), 2:5 (26:57) F. Höfler (5-4), 3: 5 (33:38) Merl (Horvath), 3: 6 (40:55) Maucher, 3: 7 (44:49) Klein (5-4).
– Penalty minutes: ESC 18, EAS 26. – Spectators: 327.