The Geretsrieder River Rats had a harder time than expected on Friday, before the 7:5 win at bottom Pfaffenhofen was a done deal.
Pfaffenhofen/Geretsried – Hans Tauber Jr.
had warned that Bayernliga taillight EC Pfaffenhofen would eventually win their first win of the season.
"And I don't want that to be against us," emphasized the new coach of the Geretsrieder River Rats.
In fact, things looked bleak after the second third for the ESC, which in the end still recorded a deserved 7: 5 (2: 0, 1: 4, 4: 1) victory.
"In the end, the team showed morale and we got the three points we wanted," said Tauber.
The guests started according to plan and were 2-0 up after the first third thanks to goals from Josef Reiter in the majority (5th) and Benedikt May (7th).
After the restart, Klaus Berger increased the lead to 3-0 (25th) when the game tipped over.
The Icehogs scored goal after goal and suddenly found themselves leading 4-3.
“We were too offensive and too euphoric.
Pfaffenhofen countered us in a classic way,” reported Tauber.
In the final third, Geretsrieder rolled up their sleeves again and turned the game around in the 45th minute with a double strike from Marek Haloda and Florian Strobl.
Xaver Hochstraßer (53rd) and Daniel Bursch (55th) extended the lead to 7:4 before the ECP scored their fifth goal.
Pfaffenhofen - Geretsried 5:7 (0:2, 4:1, 1:4) - Goals: 0:1 (4:07) Reiter (May, Haloda 5-4), 0:2 (6:52) May ( Reiter), 0: 3 (24:07) Berger (Horvath, Fuchs), 1: 3 (24:39) Neubauer (Morrissette), 2: 3 (31:23) Pfab (K. Hätinen), 3: 3 ( 36:45) L. Haetinen (Morrissette), 4:3 (39:30) Gebhardt (K. Haetinen), 4:4 (44:23) Haloda (May), 4:5 (44:37) Strobl (Horvath ), 4: 6 (52:39) Hochstrasser, 4: 7 (54:48) Bursch (Hochstrasser), 5: 7 (57:03) K. Hätinen (Meier).
– Penalty minutes: ECP 10, ESC 6. – Spectators: 140.