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It’s an incredible drama! Fans must enjoy the pre-round of the Tipsport Extraliga play-offs to the fullest. It was no different on Tuesday in Olomouc’s Plecharéna, where 4879 loud spectators watched the duel of two large rivals. Olomouc was heading for it, but Vítkovice still managed to turn the fate of the match to its side. Definitely the fifth match.

On Sunday, Vítkovice asked for a postponement. Only two players and two coaches arrived at the Ostravar Arena for Sunday’s training. The others stayed at home with high fevers, in one case even an ambulance had to go into action.

After Olomouc and the director of the extra league, Josef Řezníček, rejected the Vítkovice one-day postponement of Monday’s match, Miloš Holaň summoned all the knights who managed to stand on skates. Some with temperatures, others under pills. Betting on Vítkovice was a pureblood at the time.

However, the hockey players of Vítkovice showed that they are made of a slightly different dough. Although they fell tightly on the ice of the Hanáks on Monday, the next day they managed to reverse the fate of the series. At the same time, it seemed for a long time that they would no longer have enough strength to turn the game around.

„We didn’t play well today, we were scared from the beginning, probably under the weight of being able to lose the match”Said Rider coach Miloš Holaň for the post-match interview club website. Otherwise, however, he was in great euphoria, like the whole team that managed to recover from the difficult situation.

„Something happened to the boys, after that goal at 2: 0 they got together, they fought like one man, we managed to score 2: 1. The team did not fold“He praised his charges, pointing to an unchanged penalty shot from the 37th minute of the match.

„Olomouc pushed, we had mistakes in defense, we had bad discipline, but by character we made it to the end,“Coach Vítkovice shone. He himself knew that the series would be even. The battle for five matches between Olomouc and Vítkovice was foretold by many hockey fans, experts, including the Ruik editorial office.

Dominik Lakatoš, the key forward of Rider, also blew a sigh of relief in the mixing zone: “We thought we had to try. We don’t want the season to end on March 15. Those forces are in us, we came together and I think it helped us”He poured out immediately after the match towards the Vítkovice newsroom web.

Can it be said that there is an advantage on the side of the Ostrava team now? “Of course, when you win, you feel good. So probably yes, maybe we have the imaginary point on our side, but I say the match starts at 0: 0 and it’s a fight. Every match with Olomouc is a struggle and we must prepare for it, ”Grows the 24-year-old shooter, who himself sent Vítkovice into the lead 3: 2. David Krejčí from Olomouc still managed to react to this shot.

Six and a half minutes before the end of the 60th minute, Lakatos puck drove into the offensive zone, after which the Swedish striker Tobias Lindberg planted a winning shot in the net for the Hanáks. Vítkovice was knocked out of the critical situation and on Thursday from 5 pm they will have a decisive fifth match of the preliminary round on the home ice with Olomouc.

Source: HC Vítkovice Rider

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