Austria celebrates historical ice hockey victory against France!

Austria celebrates historical ice hockey victory against France!

Austria's ice hockey team celebrated an impressive 5-2 victory against France on Friday at the World Cup in Stockholm. With this success, the team secured important points in the fight for relegation after it was 3-0 after the first third. Marco Kasper opened the game in the 1st minute, followed by Vinzenz Rohrer's goal in the 8th minute and Ramon Schnetzer, who scored the third goal in the 16th minute. David Kickert shone in the goal, while French goalkeeper Antoine Keller was replaced by Quentin Papillon after 15 minutes after showing several malactions. Austria's victory was the first against France in a World Cup for 21 years and catapulted the team to second place in group A with five points, clearly in front of France (1 point) and Slovenia (0 points) reported OE24

In the second third, the Austrian team showed a solid performance, but had some chances of awarding, including a Rohrer post shot. The momentum of the game stopped, but the French were not willing to give up. Jordann Perret scored the first goal for France in the 51st minute, whereupon Marco Kasper scored an Empty-Net goal to 4: 1 in the 58th minute. Bellemare reduced to 2: 4 in the power play, but Peter Schneider made the final score in the last minute with another Empty-Net goal to 5: 2. The Avicii-Arena in Stockholm was well attended with 4,873 spectators reported the Kurier .

Opportunities for the quarter -finals

Austria now has the opportunity to qualify for the quarter -finals with two further victories. A victory on Sunday against Slovenia would almost secure relegation and at the same time open the doors for the quarter -finals far. The next World Cup will take place in Switzerland in 2026, which should be additional motivation for the players makes the Austrian ice hockey association clear .

Despite the victory, there was worrying news: Benjamin Baumgartner failed because of a facial injury, but will probably be fit for the decisive game against Slovenia. The impressive victory against France underlines the currently good form of the Austrian team and gives hope for more success in the upcoming games Realistic chance .