Before the game, there was music at the TSV Bayer Sportcenter. An employee of the club first performed “The snow is falling quietly” and then encouraged the spectators to sing “O-Tannenbaum” together.
Looking at the squad, it was noticeable that the Wiesels, as the hosts are called, lost the three most accurate shooters up to that point: Reimer, Reuland and Grgic were not there. Coach Flohr spoke afterwards of the “last groove” that his team had been on. So three A-youngsters joined the team, who should actually be in the middle (and not just there). By the way: The Jung-Wiesel play in the championship round of the A-Jugend-Bundesliga, so they know how it’s done and stand for the excellent youth work of TSV.
The HSG was also missing four players with serious knee injuries, one of whom, Alex Feld, was in Dormagen again and supported his team.
And then it started, with a converted 7-metres from the hosts. The Czech right winger Jakub Sterba hadn’t even taken a penalty this season, but by the time it made it 4:3 (12th) he had scored four times! In the absence of the regular 7-meter shooters, he also scored the fifth, sixth and seventh penalty throw in the goal and failed only once when everything was already over. Sterba should end up being the top marksman of the game (10/7).
And the HSG? The Reds, who started with Björn Buhrmester in goal, defended well at first and even went in front: Georg Pöhle prevailed on the circle and scored to 4:5 (14th). It should remain the only leadership of the team. The hosts took advantage of their guests’ turnovers, counterattacked and turned the result around. With the score at 8:6, Daniel Kubes took his first time out and made a change of personnel (17th).
In the first half, the Swedish right winger Samuel Lindberg was repeatedly sought and found at HSG. Our No. 4 tried a total of nine times before the break, sometimes spectacularly, but unfortunately only four balls found their way into the net. On the other hand, the Wiesel extended their lead and went into the dressing room with +4 (15:11).
The first two actions after the break belonged to HSG: Bart Ravensbergen, who had meanwhile moved into goal, saved brilliantly after a counterattack, and Georg Pöhle scored again from the circle. But then it was the turn of the hosts, who played in blue, and they literally pulled away, which was also favored by an excessive number of technical errors on the part of HSG (in the end 14 compared to 7 at TSV). The score was 18:12 and 20:14 (37th).
Once again hope germinated in the Red camp: Their now very offensive defense puzzled Dormagen and Jaime Fernandez with a 7-metre throw, Johannes Wasielewski and Georg Pöhle brought their team close to -3 (20:17). That caused the Wiesel coach to time out (40th). He now made a goalkeeper change, which paid off immediately, as the new keeper nullified the possible -2. Then things went well for TSV Bayer Dormagen.
Tarek Marschall now scored twice, but the home side still extended the lead again. Even the red card after the third time penalty against the six-time goal scorer and defensive strategist Alexander Send did not help HSG (44th). The 24:19 was achieved by the 19-year-old junior national player Sören Steinhaus with his eighth goal, the 25:20 was the already mentioned seventh consecutive 7-meter conversion by Jakub Sterba. There were still ten minutes to play.
Shortly thereafter, Nebosja Simovic also received his third suspension. Dormagen left no doubt about his own victory, which was no longer in danger. In the end it was 29:25 and a good 800 of the 849 spectators celebrated. Georg Pöhle was the most accurate shooter in red (7), ahead of Samuel Lindberg (5), Jaime Fernandez (4/3) and Tarek Marschall (4).
Daniel Kubes congratulated on the success: “Dormagen was better, they were mega committed and had the absolute will”. That might have made the difference. He praised his fellow coach for achieving such good results with his young squad in the league. With regard to his own team, he blamed the exploitation of chances and above all the high number of technical errors for the defeat.
Matthias Flohr, on the other hand, was of course “completely enthusiastic” about his team. He has “nothing to complain about” and is “completely proud” of his team, which has really come together after some bad news in terms of personnel. We can only join the congratulations and hope that things will go better at HSG in the future – especially against Dormagen. Including a test game in the summer, the Wiesels have actually inflicted four defeats on us within a year. They are now 13th in the table, HSG remains 6th – the five better positioned teams all won.
Source: HSG Nordhorn-Lingen / Photo: Zaunbrecher
