The German U20 national team faced Slovakia's Young Talents in their first international match of the 2025/2026 season. At the Nordhessen Arena in Kassel, U20 national coach Tobias Abstreiter's team suffered a narrow 2-3 defeat after extra time. DEB-Scorers were Timo Kose (36th) and Elias Pul (43rd).
Linus Vieillard started in goal today, Tobias Schwarz led the DEB-selection took to the ice as captain. After an evenly matched opening phase, the Slovakian team received a penalty in the 13th minute, but this had no consequences. Around two minutes before the end of the first period, the visitors took a 1-0 lead through Martin Kalis. DEBThe team came out of the locker room with momentum and put on a lot of pressure. Timo Kose was able to reward the German team for this, scoring the equaliser in the 36th minute. Right at the start of the final period, the DEBThe team took a 2-1 lead thanks to Elias Pul's goal. This lead held until the 52nd minute, when Tomas Pobezal equalized. In the subsequent overtime, it took just 2 seconds for the Slovaks to score the winning goal.
Tomorrow, Friday, August 1, 2025, the German Young Talents team will face the Slovakian team again. Kickoff at 18.30:XNUMX p.m. at the Nordhessen Arena in Kassel.
Statistics: https://deb-online.live/liga/herren/nat/u20/
U20 national coach Tobias Abstreiter"The players showed great commitment today and were the better team in the second and third periods. It was the intense game we expected against a good Slovakian team. The bottom line is that the team created many chances, but we weren't efficient enough in capitalizing on them, and thus couldn't hold on to the game after taking the lead. Unfortunately, we let ourselves get carried away with a few unnecessary situations at the end. If we capitalize on our chances better tomorrow, we can win the game."
Striker Timo Kose"We played a good game today. However, we took too many penalties in the end and thus lost the win. Nevertheless, we're coming out of this game with a positive attitude and will attack again tomorrow. We still need to minimize our mistakes, do the simple things right, and get the pucks to the net, then we can play well again tomorrow."
U20 international matches in Kassel
31.07.2025 I 18.30:XNUMX p.m. I Germany – Slovakia 2:3 aet (0:1, 1:0, 1:1, 0:1)
01.08.2025 I 18.30:XNUMX p.m. I Germany – Slovakia