Fribourg had the opportunity to take the lead, but Fribourg missed that chance. Beaten 3-1 by Davos, the Dragons paid dearly for a missed start and a struggling power-play.
Summarizing the Fribourg defeat to this completely missed start to the match with two goals conceded in the first four minutes would be too simplistic. Naturally, the Dragons started this second act in the worst possible way, but they had their chances to come back. Especially on power-play. Because Roger Rönnberg’s players went after those penalties. They just couldn’t capitalize on them. Once again.
“I don’t think we played a bad game, but when you have to skate after the score the whole game, it’s not easy,” Nathan Marchon explained. At 5 on 5, we showed a good face, but we were a little too undisciplined in the first period and in the third period where it broke the pace.
Emotions in the stands
There was this nostalgic tifo with Slava Bykov holding hands with a young Julien Sprunger. The two legends reunited in one image. The camera then found Andrei Bykov in the stands, adding even more emotions to the already under pressure Fribourg ranks, in front of a crowd that desperately awaits a title.
The arrival of the championship trophy was greeted by a roar that however did not shake a very precise Willi Vögtlin on his sausage steps to avoid taking a big fall in the middle of the ice.
And maybe all this pageantry disturbed the Dragons. We remember the giant tifo in honor of Julien Sprunger retracing his career. The Fribourg players were paralyzed by the fear of doing it wrong and depriving their captain of a last dance worthy of his talent. But no time to look back, the focus is already on Wednesday and the third act. “We have to forget already,” Marchon stressed. We didn’t expect an easy series. We need the right mindset against Davos. In the last forty minutes, we were better. We pushed, but it didn’t go in. We didn’t put ourselves in the best position.
Davos getting tired faster?
Number 97 then said an interesting phrase: “No doubt we will grow throughout the series.” Learn and not make the same mistakes. Fribourg has the weapons to bother this Davos team still without Michael Fora and Enzo Corvi. “If we play our game with four lines, we can contain them,” Marchon continued. They play with six defenders and we saw that in the end, they started to struggle.
Roger Rönnberg must also hope that a click will finally happen on power-play. Fribourg’s power-play has been dismal since the beginning of the series. “Power-play is one of the details to fix,” Marchon concluded. We create a bit more even if it’s not enough. We can take inspiration from Davos, they just put the puck on goal for deflections. Answer on Wednesday.
This article was published automatically. Source: ats
