Valentin Busch decides in the penalty shootout / Künast: “We’re happy about the victory”
A tailor-made start: The U20 national team won the first game of the U20 Future Challenge in the Federal Performance Center (BLZ) in Füssen against SC Riessersee with 3:2 (1:0; 0:1; 1:1; 1:0) after a penalty shootout .
While the guests from Garmisch largely dominated the game in the first ten minutes, they took advantage DEB-Select your second really good chance consistently. Timo Walther passed the ball to Marius Reiter just behind the blue line, who fired the ball past former U20 national goalkeeper Kevin Reich to make it 1-0 from a German perspective. A few seconds before the half-time siren, Mirko Pantkowski's entire skill was called upon on the other side when Jared Gomes, coming from the penalty box, was served and countered on him alone. But the U20 goalie showed nerves and kept his team in the game. Almost five minutes had been played in the second half when the SCR countered again. This time it was Alex Zecchetto who stormed alone towards the German goal. He equalized 1-1 with a backhand. In the final third it was the German colors who were able to take the lead again. Moritz Seider sank a precise pass from Marco Sternheimer under the crossbar to make it 2-1. But the SCR turned up the heat and equalized the victory that had already been assured DEB-Selection shortly before the end in the person of Gomes. It went straight to the penalty shootout, in which Valentin Busch scored and Mirko Patkowski had an excellent one Parawhich secured the German U20 national team its first victory in the U20 Future Challenge.
Christian Künast, U20 national coach: “Garmisch appeared here today with almost the best line-up and that’s exactly what we need. The games at this level are very valuable for our development and help us. The result is of secondary importance, although we are of course happy about the victory.”
Gates: 1:0 (14:53) M.Reiter (T.Walther, C.Jahnke); 1:1 (24:52) A.Zecchetto (A.Driendl); 2:1 (56:07) M.Seider (M.Sternheimer, C.Jahnke; 2:2 (58:12) J.Gomes (V.Gschmeißner, M.Rimbeck); 3:2 (60:00 / PS ) V.Busch
Penalty minutes: Germany 4 – SC Riessersee 6
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