Comet one step away from enlistment. Liberec won the second tug in overtime
The comet will turn away the Liberec swordfish on Monday. “I’m sorry about the match mainly because we had it very well played. I think we gave a very good performance, but unfortunately we let it slip through our fingers and then in the overtime we lost the match after the finish. It’s a pity, because today we had to leave with a victory.Such a loss is definitely not pleasant for us, but we are still in the game, it is a very difficult situation, because Liberec is a very strong team. Now everything is moving to Brno , where we will have fans on our side, “the Brno coach Jiří Kalous did not lose hope.
We proved that Liberec and I are equal, said Kalous after the captivating battle
Home defender Derner entered the 900th extra-league match of his career, the vast majority of which he spent just below Ještěd. The visiting coaches decided to change in the goal area. Compared to Friday, when the South Moravians lost just 3: 4, Tomek was in the opening line-up instead of Čiliak.
Comet hockey players took up the baton from the very beginning in the desire to equalize the series, but the White Tigers resisted unscathed thanks to goalkeeper Kváč and the dedication of his modern team. And in the seventh minute, they struck themselves. Rychlovský tried his luck from the wing with a shot on a closer stick and surprised Tom. He only excelled a little later on Klapka’s occasion. The home Melancon and the guest Ďaloga and Dočekal did not move either.
Vlach failed to renumber two to one at the beginning of the second part, on the other hand he managed to tame Mueller’s flow to Kváč. However, the tug of the Brno club’s offensive soon regained its taste when it surprised Kváča with a shot from a large angle and thus arranged a tie before half of the basic playing time.
The comet then had a very high point in places, but the people of Liberec often resisted with a good deal of luck. Dočekal hit the disc in the space between the circles and rang the bell bar. Horký, Vincour or Holík had promising options, but they failed at Kváč. In the 37th minute, Klepiš did not reach the goal, and Zachar did not return the lead to the White Tigers.
At the beginning of the third period, another renumbering came to an end, which Birner concluded. On the other hand, after exactly 45 minutes, after a scrum in front of Kváča, he found a free Mueller disc and sent guests into the lead. Shortly afterwards, after Zaťovič’s mistake, the people of Liberec had the opportunity to play the first power play of the match, but they did not find a recipe for Tomek. On the contrary, Rákos passed the home team only after it ended, but for a while he moved Kváča well, he can’t overcome him.
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On the other hand, he did not find the Faško-Rudáš recipe for Tomek. In the end, they did not change their first power play or the guests. The Liberec team reached almost a minute and a half before the end to play without a goalkeeper. Birner was fantastically caught by Tomek, but then Klepiš stretched on the blue line and cheered the White Tigers 17.2 seconds before the final siren. “We played bad bulls there. We have some instructions there that we didn’t follow a hundred percent. Unfortunately, we lost the puck on the back guard and we weren’t able to take it out of the zone. The opponent then shot it and leveled it. “The coach of the defeated Kalous regretted it.
The shock from the collected goal was reflected on the guests. They went for the winning goal in overtime at home and they achieved a successful finish of Fašek-Rudáš in 63:21. The defeat was no longer averted by the coaches of Brno. “I think it was a fight from the first to the last minute. The Comet pushed us for a while, we also had some chances. The players fought and believed the whole match. Again it was a bit similar to the first match. We scored the first goal, the Comet ended the match “We are happy for the second victory, but it still doesn’t solve anything. Tomorrow we will get up normally and we will prepare for the next match again,” said Liberec coach Patrik Augusta after the match.
White Tigers Liberec – HC Kometa Brno 3: 2 in prod. (1: 0, 0: 1, 1: 1 – 1: 0)
Goals and recordings: 7. Rychlovský (A. Najman), 60. Klepiš (Šmíd, J. Vlach), 64. Faško-Rudáš (Melancon, Šmíd) – 29. Mueller (Tansey), 45. Mueller (Šik). Referee: Kika, Sykora – Frodl, Ondracek. Exclusion: 2: 2. No use. Viewers: 4621. Series status: 2: 0.
Liberec: Kváča – M. Ivan, Šmíd, Melancon, Rosandič, Kolmann, Derner – Faško-Rudáš, Gríger, Birner – Zachar, Klepiš, Ordoš – Klapka, P. Jelínek, J. Vlach – A. Najman, Šír, Rychlovský. Coach: Augusta.
Brno: Tomek – Ďaloga, Bartejs, Holland, Kučeřík, L. Doudera, Tansey – Mueller, P. Holík, Zaťovič – L. Horký, Krištof, Vincour – T. Šoustal, A. Zbořil, Šik – Rákos, Kollár, Dočekal. Coaches: Zábranský and Kalous.