Hinterstocker: “We showed our best tournament performance today” / narrow defeat against Russia
The women's national team narrowly lost to Russia 1:2 (0:1; 1:1; 0:0) and thus took 4th place at the 2016 Nations Cup in Füssen.
The team led by women's national coach Benjamin Hinterstocker initially suffered a bitter 1:5 defeat against Finland in the first game of the preliminary round. Two days later she was able to DEB-Selection then defeated Switzerland 5:2 and met Russia in the game for third place today.
Both teams didn't give each other anything away right from the start and fought for every meter of ice from the first second. Olga Sosina scored the only goal in the first third to give Russia the lead in the 14th minute.
Even when Yekaterina Solovyeva made it 0:2 for the Russians shortly after the first break (23rd minute), the German women didn't give up and Monika Bittner reduced the score to 1:2 (36th) in the second third.
In the last twenty minutes the tried DEB-Selection everything again, but the black hard rubber disc simply didn't want to get into the Russian goal. So it remained a narrow 1:2 and the German women finished the tournament in fourth place.
National coach Benjamin Hinterstocker: “Today we played our best game of the tournament. We were able to use a lot of players and I was able to gain important insights into the next steps.”
Tanja Eisenschmid (University of North Dakota): “We put a lot of pressure on and created a number of chances through consistent forechecking. Unfortunately we couldn’t score another goal.”
Julia Zorn (ESC Planegg): “It was a great fighting performance that unfortunately wasn’t rewarded in the end. But I think we are on the right track."