“upset me.” This sentence Simon bodenmann will say this or something similar in the next four minutes, four Times. It is Saturday night, after 22 o’clock, the striker of the ZSC Lions gear to the Corner, the Arena is in the Wardrobe, freshly showered and brooding. As the Leader of the Zurich travelled to Ticino, to increase the lead on many of the closer spaced tracker in the best case, this is against a HC Lugano, of the was for weeks as the crisis club of the League, because he had lost ten of their last 12 games.

But now he has wrestled the table first with fighting funds and the annoying floor man: “We have won two battles, we were us, even after the bullies very badly, in which we supported a lot to us too little.”

it Is also a feeling of fullness?

Maybe it is a little normal, human weakness that has overwhelmed the team in the last few days and weeks. Success can, of course, also make sick of it. Previously, the Zurich had strung together several strong games together, had convinced with a lot of game and run with joy, and as a reward for the top of the ersiegt.

“I don’t looked the least gross on the table. Now I have to ZSC again”-wings, Simon Bodenmann

After a 7:2 at home against exactly this Lugano, the Ticino was less than a month ago finally for the crisis club, which is just a really compelling game succeeded, the 5:0 at the first tracker in Davos last Saturday, ironically, in the only game, in which the early loss of 1st place threatened. “I don’t looked the least gross on the table. Now I must again,” says Bodenmann.

The ZSC Lions showed typical symptoms of a successful team, the away in small increments to precisely the game that distinguished him previously. Because Zurich is also in Lugano phases in which you dominate the opponent, as if you had pressed on the button.

you cash in on but also three similar goals, to go to which always simply the assignment in the Defensive seems to be lost. “And that is a shame, because these are precisely the things about which we are talking,” says Rikard Grönborg.

“Then you will not be rewarded”

The Lions coach praises the opponent, and this urgency in the game, the Ticino, which is described in football language with “Desperation”, of desperation, is meant in here is the unconditional willingness to fight. “We can, but today I saw it almost exclusively in the last few minutes, and this is too little,” said Grönborg. He sees it also in the even more aggressive and very courageous Penalty Killing, in which the Zurich-based are often torgefährlicher than the Majority operating in Ticino.

head ventilation: ZSC-coach Rikard Grönborg observed on the day after the defeat of the ZSC-young. (Source: Rikard Grönborg/Twitter)

The Special Teams are the only Highlights of the Zurich this evening, you succeed in the Powerplay very good phases, even if the goals fail to materialise at the end. For the ground man that something Logical has: “If you don’t fight or else enough, you will be rewarded with the opportunities.” And exactly: “That sucks.” Because: “as we are currently on it, we have it almost in the own Hand, we can decide whether we win or not.”

the ground’s line with Denis Hollenstein, the usual Partner on the other wing and Dominik Diem, is the because of the injury to Marcus krüger’s unusual Center: it is the offensive striking ZSC-line, you will score the only goal as bottom man in the final third of the shortened to 1:3. And it is hardly meant to be, if Grönborg says also: “It would have helped if more players had something contributed.”

This 1:3 in Lugano, it is the last game of the Zurich before the national team break. “Of course you can’t do a whole season at Top level play,” says Bodenmann. “That no one has yet managed.” But still, he didn’t want to with a good feeling in the free week, so a “Sch…game had come now”. And, Yes, also about this stay conclusion: “The upset, that sucks.”

proceedings against Maxim Noreau

The ZSC Lions the only game in Lugano is not lost. You could lose in the next games also, Maxim Noreau because of a possible lock out of the Line-up. Prior to the 2:0-hits the doorstep by Sandro Zangger checked the Zurich defender Lugano, striker Mauro Jörg namely against the head.

Check Maxim Noreau against Mauro Jörg.

In the game of the action of the arbitrators, after a long debate with a 2 – to plus 10-minute penalty was punished, on the match sheet, only 10 minutes, because the small penalty was deleted because of the immediately subsequent Lugano-hit, in accordance with the rules again – Jörg left when you hit the second Assist record.

Not unexpectedly, the League opened now, but today is Sunday ordinary proceedings against Noreau due to the Checks against the head. The result is expected in the next few days.

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Created: 08.12.2019, 11:59 PM