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Legend:
Disappointed
Nothing could be gained for the Swiss against the Czech Republic.
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- The women’s ice hockey national team lost the last group game against the Czech Republic 2:5 at the World Cup in Brampton.
- With that, the team of coach Colin Muller finished the group stage in 4th place.
- In the quarterfinals on Thursday there will be another duel with Japan.
On Monday, the Swiss celebrated their first victory at the World Cup in Canada after the expected defeats against the hosts and the USA thanks to a 4:3 win against Japan. However, the players could not carry the momentum of this sense of achievement into the final group game against the Czech Republic. In the direct duel for 3rd place, it ended with a 2:5 bankruptcy.
As a result, the women’s national team, fourth in the group, will again meet the fifth-placed Japanese in the quarter-finals on Thursday. The Czechs, for their part, are dueling against the Finns, the winners of Group B. The Swiss camp should not be completely dissatisfied with the quarter-final draw. With the performance against the Czech Republic, however, all the more.
Switzerland with a desolate start third
Coach Colin Muller’s team had absolutely no chance in the first third. The Nati only recorded one shot by Lara Stalder in the first 20 minutes. The Czech Republic took the lead after just 52 seconds through Adela Sapovalivova and then dominated at will. Michaela Pejzlova increased in the 14th minute. Alena Mills gave her team a comfortable 3-0 lead in the 19th minute.
In the middle third, Switzerland was able to improve slightly, but Stalder and Co. still couldn’t find any solutions. The Czechs did better: The 4:0 by Klara Hymlarova on the power play just before the second break was the preliminary decision.
A sense of achievement thanks to Stalder and Müller
In the final section, Caroline Spies replaced Saskia Maurer in the Swiss goal. And after just 29 seconds there was still a first sense of achievement for the national team: Stalder skillfully completed a counterattack to make it 1:4. Only a short time later, however, Tereza Pistekova restored the Czechs’ four-goal advantage. In the 51st minute, Alina Müller was only able to do cosmetic work.
Live stream on www.srf.ch/sport, 04/12/23, 01:00 a.m.; cud
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