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The juniors were defeated in the opening match

After the other selections have already started quite well in this year's competition season, the juniors joined them this Sunday. Our dragons immediately had a difficult duel ahead of them, as they went to Jesenice.

This season, the goals of the juniors are high. Today's game definitely confirms that the team is good, but mistakes this time prevented them from bringing home all three points in the first game.

Our players were better at the beginning of the match. We saw some of our powerful shots from afar. The slight initiative of the Dragons was then interrupted by the exclusion on our side, but soon the initiative was transferred to our side again. Somehow our pressures seemed to escalate, and then came the 15th minute. The home attacker stole the tile and slid himself towards the goalkeeper. Our defender practically caught him, but in the end the home player only managed to push the ball forward, but it surprised our goalkeeper and the home team took the lead with 1: 0. This goal calmed the game down a bit. It already seemed that the third would end in such a style, and then our team only took their chance in the last seconds. He passed Tay Petronijevic Lepsa, but he hit Jean Flys.

Our team did not bring the moment from the end of the first third to the second part, as the home team started better. But that only lasted a few minutes, as he then had to sit on the bench for a punished home player. We made good use of that. The plate circled for a while, and then they did Marko Ložar in Jean Flys tile passed to Jan Flajs, who scored for 2: 1. But the joy of ours did not last long. Shortly after that, there was an exclusion on our side. There was no goal here, but as soon as our player returned from the penalty bench, a substitution error ensued. All of a sudden, three home players found themselves alone in front of our goalkeeper and the result was again tied 2: 2.

This second goal broke our rhythm of play. There were some consecutive exclusions on our side and in the second third our players no longer recorded any special chances. However, our players reunited in the third period. Ours immediately took the initiative. She soon came to a series of exclusions on the home side. After a few moments of play, another exclusion followed. Ours slipped in a 5-on-3 game, which they took advantage of. They pressed for a while and did not allow the home tile to be sent from the third. Then it is Jan Lan Matija filed to Stamps of Mehlet, and he scored for 3:2. Unfortunately, our team did not press harder and the game slowly became equal. The home players were becoming dangerous and in the 50th minute they scored to equalize at 3:3. A few minutes later, our player had to go to the penalty bench again, which the home team took advantage of and took the lead again 4:3. There were still a little over 7 minutes to go. Ours attacked. The opportunity arose after a few minutes, as they played with a player on the ice more. But once again our team committed a foul and the ratio on the ice was 4-on-4. The end of the game was coming. Our coach tried again in the game without a goalkeeper, but even here our players were not successful.

Although our team dominated in certain periods, in the end the home players successfully punished all our mistakes and all three points stayed at home. In the remaining two matches, Bled defeated Triglav with 5: 2, and Slavija was better than Maribor with 8: 1. Our juniors continue the competition next Sunday, when the team from Kranj arrives in Tivoli. You will be able to watch the match live on our YouTube channel. You are invited to visit!

 

Written by: Vladimir Ban

 

You can watch a video of the match at this link.

You can see the statistics from the match at this link.

Otherwise, you can follow the whole event in the junior category at this link.

 

 

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