Red Bull Salzburg is looking forward to a comeback today! – Hockey-News.info
EC Red Bull Salzburg meets Steinbach Black Wings Linz away today in the bet-at-home ICE Hockey League (supplementary game on January 6th). The Red Bulls are at the bottom of the league as leaders and want to get back on the road to victory straight away after the home defeat against the Graz99ers, but expect another difficult task.
The Red Bulls’ joy in playing was evident yesterday when they were able to play again after being forced to take a two-week break. After the perfect start and the 2-0 lead against the Graz99ers, things got a little rough and in the end the Red Bulls had to settle for a point from the game. But despite a few convalescent absences, Salzburg could have won the game against the strong Styrians, they had the goal several times in the last ten minutes alone.
Defender TJ Brennan has already pulled off the party against Graz and looks ahead: “It’s always disappointing when you lose. But we knew that we would only find our rhythm again after the break & took some positives from the game. you can build on that.”
Now it’s on to Linz and the Red Bulls want to present themselves even more compactly there and eliminate the small mistakes that crept in during the course of the game. But even against the bottom of the table, everything has to pass if you want to write fully again. Despite their position in the table, the Upper Austrians have always surprised, as they did last Saturday with the home win against Innsbruck, often only by a goal. They were only defeated 4-3 in the last game in Salzburg on December 28, but the Red Bulls won the season opener last fall in Linz by a clear 4-0.
Once again the 32-year-old American: “We try not to look at the standings. All teams have their qualities and we are preparing for that. We want to improve the things that didn’t work in the Graz game and implement them in the game. If we don’t look at the others so much and concentrate on our game, we’ll find our way back to our usual line.” In concrete terms, this means: “Linz definitely has good players who can open up spaces and score goals. But we want to play the game, we want to control the disc, we want to get into the offensive zone quickly and we don’t want to give them any chances to score.”
The Red Bulls are happy about Thomas Raffl’s return today. The convalescents Atte Tolvanen, Lukas Schreier, Ty Loney, Ali Wukovits, Jan-Mikael Järvinen and Lucas Thaler are still missing. Linz also sees a reunion with Slovakian defender Martin Stajnoch, who also made 92 appearances for the Red Bulls between 2017 and 2019 and recently signed with the Black Wings. The game starts at 7:15 p.m. and will be shown in the paid live stream.
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Steinbach Black Wings Linz vs EC Red Bull Salzburg
Tue, 01/18/2022; Linz, 7:15 p.m
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