Dorfen attracts training

Created: 01/13/2023, 1:00 p.m

The support: ESC goalkeeper Maximilian Englbrecht (right) will have a lot of work to do.

© Hermann Weingartner

Two tough chunks are waiting for the ESC this weekend, which is already looking at the playdowns.

Dorfen

– ESC Dorfen still have four games to survive in the Bayernliga main round before a simple playdown round is about staying up.

“You can also get off there” – coach Franz Steer warned his team with this unmistakable wake-up call.

The ESC fans therefore hope that the slight upward trend in the games at home today at 8 p.m. against ERV Schweinfurt and on Sunday at 6.30 p.m. in Amberg will continue and that the performance curve will rise even more steeply.

Because the Mighthy Dogs are six points behind the current eighth and are still aiming for the coveted last playoff place eight, the ice pirates should have a very difficult time.

In the first leg at the start of the league, the people of Isenstadt tied a point 2:3 after a penalty shoot-out, but top scorer Dylan Hood was missing at the time.

The 32-year-old American is second in the league rankings behind former DEL player Marco Sternheimer in terms of scorers and goalscorers.

However, in addition to injured regular players, the long-term injured top scorer Tomas Vrba was also missing for the Eispiraten in Schweinfurt.

The Sunday opponents and safe playoff participants ERSC Amberg have an even higher quality.

The goal difference of 92:56 speaks for a stable defense in front of the 23-year-old, strong goalkeeper Timon Bätge, who switched from Oberliga Selb to the Wild Lions.

With the two Canadians Brent Mennear and Tanner Campbell, as well as the German-Canadian Shawn Campbell in attack and the German-Czech defender Richard Stütz, the crowd (average 615 per game) is excellent.

In Dorfen, the Upper Palatinate won 5:1.

In Amberg everything would have to be right for the ESC to get something countable.

At today's performance in the Dr.-Rudolf-Halle, the Ice Pirates will miss defender Sebastian Kanzelsberger after his game misconduct penalty in Kempten.

"For us, it's primarily about making progress in terms of play and fitness in these last games of the main round," emphasizes Steer.

You also got dressed with the training.

He hopes “that we will be spared as much as possible from injuries or sick leave”.