“Does anyone understand? We will need a moment to realize that we have won the world’s seventh tier in hockey,” Der Standard reported in an online bulletin, hinting at the position of the Czech team. in the world rankings. Austria is the seventeenth.

Der Standard writes about the star class of Austrian hockey and the tabloid portal Kronen Zeitung about “the greatest heroic play in the current world championship to date”.

“Victory over one of the powerhouses of hockey (albeit after separate raids). Against the Czech Republic, a six-time world champion who (Austria) has never been defeated,” reports the Der Standard portal.

Austria scored against the world-class team for the second time in the current championship, writes the online edition of the Kurier daily. Team leader Roger Bader and his assistants took a big risk: less than a minute before the end of the game, they called up goalkeeper Bernhard Starkbaum and replaced him on the ice with the sixth player.

“A fair 0-1 loss was not good enough for them,” Kurier said, adding the risk paid off as the Austrians managed to balance.

The public broadcasting portal ÖRF assessed that there was some indecision in the game of the Czechs, they imagined working with an outsider. Although they knew that in less than 24 hours they would face another opponent, Norway, the Austrians fought until the last siren of regulation time for a draw and a point.

But when, after goalless extra time, goalkeeper Starkbaum managed to repel all Czech attempts during the raids, “the Czechs sobered up and the historic red-white-red success reached perfection”, writes orf.at .