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Germany lost the World Cup opener against Sweden 0-1. It was a good performance by the DEB selection under national coach Harold Kreis, especially in the first third, and actually with good chances. “The team played on an equal footing with Sweden and that should continue tomorrow,” said Harold Kreis, not euphorically, but in a positive mood. “That’s a very, very good foundation that we have laid there. We haven’t trained together that long. But it went incredibly well,” said Moritz Seider: “We have a very, very good team, we’ve been teased for a long time.” Marcel Noebels, voted the best German player by the jury, said that the Swedes “had all the shoes like robots” – means: difficult to get through. Noebels warns: “We saw that we can keep up, that we also had the chance to win. We can’t buy anything for today if we don’t bring the performance back tomorrow.” It’s against world champions and hosts Finland (live from 6.30 p.m. on MagentaSport), who lost 4-1 to the USA at the start.
Below are the most important voices from the World Cup opener, Germany versus Sweden – if used, please name the source MagentaSport. It continues tomorrow with the game Germany against world champion Finland from 6.30 p.m. – live on MagentaSport with all German games and the knockout round.
Sweden – Germany 1:0
“This Swedish team didn’t really knock my socks off. This game was decided by an outstanding individual performance,” says MagentaSport expert Patrick Ehelechner. This 0:1 is a bit bitter because Germany had good chances to take the lead themselves. The voices on the game with clips:
“It’s important that we got off to a good start. The lads have made it their goal. We saw it: the team played on an equal footing with Sweden and that should continue tomorrow,” summed up National coach Harold Kreis not euphoric, but in a positive mood: “WWe need to bring more discs to the gate with traffic. You can also partially transfer that to the power play…. I think, and we will also address this, that shots on goal and rebounds make a power play more unpredictable. The Swedes also deflected a shot, so they didn’t play fantastically either. And we’ll take that into tomorrow’s game against Finland.”
Circle’s conclusion: “We had opportunities, we had chances, attacks, shots, rebounds. Unfortunately, we were denied this success.
The link to the interview: https://www.clipro.tv/player?publishJobID=Vkw0bFhvWVhldm80WTJKSXdkV1lzdmllT3ppUHpYMkcxaHh3b1ZwQnNTRT0=
The assignment of Moritz “Mo” Seider was up for discussion for a long time – it worked and it was good: “I don’t think we have much to blame ourselves for. We played very, very well against a very big nation. We had a lot of good chances and didn’t hide. First of all, I’m very, very proud of us.”
Seider on the performance and potential impact: That’s a very, very good foundation that we have laid there. We haven’t trained together that long. It went incredibly well for that. I think if we keep going like this we will. Then at some point the knot bursts and then the first thing falls.”
The link to the interview: https://www.clipro.tv/player?publishJobID=VFJjemlLVnRuRlQyN3dsbWIwNHpucFh4aE1wdkVnTzU4OC9vaGdvV1pDTT0=
Marcel Noebels probably delivered his best game of the season and took “a lot of positive things” from the game, however: “We saw that we could keep up, that we also had the chance to win. But unfortunately, tomorrow nobody will ask us how we played today and we have to improve from game to game so that we really are in decisive phases, are also there at decisive moments in the tournament.”
Noebels on the Swedish defense: Yes, they all felt like robots. I tried to find the gap but it was really, really hard. They defended it really, really well. As I said, I usually find a gap somehow and adjust it somehow. But it was really, really hard. They did very well defensively, even when they were outnumbered.
Noebels and the outlook for Saturday’s game against world champions Finland: “For we can’t buy anything today if we don’t bring the performance back tomorrow. We knew we had a task that wasn’t quite that simple. But today I think you can take a lot of courage with you for the rest of the days or the rest of the tournament.”
The link to the full interview: https://www.clipro.tv/player?publishJobID=STZpT1BjbU1zb3lEM3IxeUZ5ZEVibi9VeTRBVlNUTS9TcWtkTjh2ZnQ5dz0=
The Ice Hockey World Championship live on MagentaSport
May 13th, from 6.30 p.m.: Germany-Finland
May 15, from 2:30 p.m.: Germany-USA
May 18, from 6.30 p.m.: Denmark-Germany
May 19, from 6.30 p.m.: Austria-Germany
May 21, from 2:30 p.m.: Germany-Hungary
May 23rd, from 10.30 a.m.: Germany-France
May 25, from 2.30 p.m.: Conference and singles quarterfinals
May 27: semi-finals
28 May: Third place match and final
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