Head coach Roger Bader: “We started strong, then suddenly they score two goals. That caused a bit of nervousness. The British have players who can score goals out of nowhere. We knew we couldn’t give them anything, otherwise they’d be back. We did it well for 50 out of 60 minutes. Tomorrow it starts from scratch again. Hungary is just as unpleasant and stubborn an opponent as we expected from Great Britain today. We have to play against Hungary the same way we did today, the straight, fast ice hockey. We have to do it again perform very well to beat them.”
Captain Peter Schneiderwho was also voted best player: “I’m incredibly proud of the boys’ performance. Every single one of them put an incredible effort on the ice today. We implemented the game plan very well, even if not everything was perfect. We did what we set out to do. Hungary will be very unpleasant, similar to the British today. The things we implemented in the first third, if we implement that over long stretches, I’m confident that we can make this game successful too.”
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