Photo: Karolína Štolcová, hclitomerice.cz
Litoměřice will play in the semi-finals of the Chance League for the first time in the club’s history – they beat Třebíč 4:1 in the decisive fifth quarter-final match. In the next round, Stadion will face Zlín, the defender of the first league championship.
Since their promotion to the Chance League in 2010, Kalisz have never gone past the quarter-final gate. The closest they came to that was three years ago, when they played a seven-game series with Jihlava.
Only now have they finally managed to reach the final four.
At the same time, Litoměřice had to count significant losses before the decisive fifth duel: the key forward Josef Jícha received a disciplinary penalty and the shooter Pavel Kordule could not start due to injury.
But the young goalkeeper stole the game for himself
Oldrich Cichoň
goalkeeper, 22 years old
” href=” Sigh. He lost his third clean sheet in his senior career only in the 57th minute and made a total of 42 saves. His counterpart Jan Mičán collected three times: from the sticks of Michael Krutil, Markus Korkiakoski and Přemysl Svoboda. The fourth shot already fell into an empty net.
SESTŘIH: Litoměřice celebrates a historic advance to the semi-finals
The semi-final series of the Chance League will start on Tuesday, Litoměřice will start it with a home double-match with favored Zlín. The second pair will be formed by Vsetín and unexpectedly promoted Jihlava.
HC STADION LITOMÈŘICE – SK HORÁCKÁ SLAVIA TREBÍC 4:1 (0:0, 2:0, 2:1)
Goals and assists: 22. Krutil (Pavlák, M. Vitouch), 27. Korkiakoski (Jebavý), 46. P. Svoboda, 59. Sihvonen (Benda, Korkiakoski) – 57. Štebih (Vodný).
Referee: Horák, Kubicík – Jindra, Malý.
Exclusion: 3:4.
No use.
Shots on goal: 33:43.
Spectators: 1,661.
Final state of the series: 3:2.
HC Stadium Litoměřice: Cichoň – Jebavý, Tůma, Pavlák, Krutil, Husák, Černohorský, Benda – Ton, Kuťák, P. Svoboda – Plos, Korkiakoski, Sihvonen – Žmola, M. Vitouch, Costa – Tomek, Hrabík, Cikhart. Coach: Overgrowth.
SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč: Mičán – Bořuta, Baláž, Štebih, Vodička, Poizl, Furch – Dočekal, Bittner, Psota – Vodný, Michálek, Ferda – Matyáš Svoboda, Malý, Ondráček – Matěj Svoboda, Kučera, Michalčuk – Frömel. Coach: Humble.
Chance league semi-final pairs
VHK ROBE Vsetín – HC Dukla Jihlava
HC Stadium Litoměřice – Berani Zlín
Schedule of the semi-finals of the Chance League playoffs
Tuesday 19 March – 1st matches:
17:30 VHK ROBE Vsetín – HC Dukla Jihlava
HC Stadium Litoměřice – Berani Zlín
Wednesday 20 March – 2nd matches:
17:30 VHK ROBE Vsetín – HC Dukla Jihlava
HC Stadium Litoměřice – Berani Zlín
Saturday 23 March – 3rd Matches:
16:30 HC Dukla Jihlava – VHK ROBE Vsetín
17:30 Berani Zlín – HC Stadium Litoměřice
Sunday 24th March – 4th matches:
16:30 HC Dukla Jihlava – VHK ROBE Vsetín
17:30 Berani Zlín – HC Stadium Litoměřice
Tuesday 26th March – Possible 5th Matches:
17:30 VHK ROBE Vsetín – HC Dukla Jihlava
HC Stadium Litoměřice – Berani Zlín
Thursday 28th March – Possible 6th Matches:
HC Dukla Jihlava – VHK ROBE Vsetín
Berani Zlín – HC Stadium Litoměřice
Saturday 30th March – possible 7th matches:
17:00 VHK ROBE Vsetín – HC Dukla Jihlava
HC Stadium Litoměřice – Berani Zlín
Another Chance League playoff schedule
Finals: April 2, 3, 6, 7, or 9, 11 and 13
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