Austrian ice hockey women celebrate comeback victory against Slovakia!

Austrian ice hockey women celebrate comeback victory against Slovakia!

The Austrian women's ice hockey team has brought itself into a promising position for further participation in the 2025 women's championship with a sovereign victory for Slovakia. The decisive factor in this exciting encounter was the captain Anna Meixner, who scored two important goals in the final third. In doing so, she secured the equalization in the 52nd minute and finally scored the winning goal 33 seconds before the end of the game. With this performance, Meixner has already scored four goals and three assists in three games, which underlines its importance for the team. Kleine Zeitung reports that Austria is now ranked.

The encounter was competitive right from the start. The Slovak team started strongly and found their way into play faster. The goalkeeper Selma Luggin did an excellent job and prevented some dangerous attacks from Slovakia. Austria opened the scoring by Anja Trummer, who scored the lead goal in the 14th minute after a crossbar from Theresa. However, the joy was short -lived, because in the 15th minute the Slovak player Hana Fancovicova equalized and even brought her team in the lead in the 23rd minute.

chances of promotion and other tournament details

Thanks to an impressive power play performance and the team's determination, Austria was able to start a comeback. This dynamic could be crucial for the upcoming games in the group phase of the World Cup. According to World Cup ice hockey , the group phase plays a crucial role in which the best teams meet. This constellation is of great importance, since all teams in group A and the three best teams in group B will take part in the playoffs.

The five teams of group A contribute to the playoffs in total, with their scores determining the opponent. Another aspect of the 2025 World Cup is that two teams have had to leave the highest division since 2020. This means that the teams with very few points descend in the group phase of Group B. Previous tournaments showed that Hungary and France descended the last World Cup while China and Denmark were added as new teams.

Norway and Hungary are new for the 2025 World Cup, so that Denmark and China had to clear the place. It remains exciting to see how the table will develop and which criteria are used in the case of tied equality, including, for example, the result of the direct encounters of the teams.

The Austrian players are confident about the next game, while they are preparing to successfully defend the won place in the table and possibly secure the promotion to the next round of the World Cup.