8. Day at the World Hockey World Champion

BRATISLAVA. In the modern era of the world championships, Hungary has never been able to keep among the elite for the next year.

Friday at MS in hockey 2025 The Hungarians could take a big step towards the rescue with possible score against the domestic Danes.

Six and a half minutes seemed to succeed: Gergely Majoross’s men were already 2: 0 at the beginning of the match. However, the Danes recovered and finally won the tired rival 8: 2.

Unfavorable program

For the Danes it was the second full point gain in a row, previously conquered Kazakhstan clearly 5: 1.

The Hungarians have already played at the championship with the United States of America, Germany and the Czech Republic, but neither of these rivals could give them as many goals as the Danes.

The performance of the Hungarian national team was also influenced by the fact that only 20 hours before the fight with the home faced the reigning world champion.

« The breakdown of the matches was unfavorable for us. We played with the strongest rival at the most inconvenient moment. But we came up with the tournament to do not matter who we play with and when, » said the coach Majoross after the match with the Czechs.

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At the beginning of the meeting with the Danes, it seemed that the Hungarians were still running. Already in the first minute they made a power play thanks to Péter Vincze and soon added another goal András Mihalik.

Danish coach Mikael Gath grabbed his head and quickly pulled from the ice goalkeeper Sebastian Dahm. Frederik Dichow went to the goal and that was the pulse to turn.

The Danes were much more active, they sent 41 shots to the goal, while the Hungarians only 12. Twice the shaft rang, but Mikkel Aagaard Sa finally pushed.

The 29-year-old striker of the Swedish team Modo then added two other goals. He became the fifth player in the tournament that reached hetrik.

The home team definitely scored Hungarian hopes at 32 minutes when they scored twice within 26 seconds.

This forced the goalkeeper and coach Majoross, instead of Bence Bálizs, he went among the poles of Vay from HK Poprad, but he did not prevent the debacle.

Unacceptable result

« I think we played a pretty good match. The beginning was challenging, but we didn’t panic. We believed and finally scored a lot of goals, » said Markus Lauridsen, who scored twice after the match.

Other goals were added by Jesper Jensen Aabo, Mathias Bau and Patrick Russell.

In Herning, players complained several times about not a completely hockey atmosphere, but on Friday evening they found their way to the Jyske Bank Boxen Hall to the home team’s match More than ten thousand people.

The Danes rejoiced after the goal stink, sometimes very active Hungarian fans now just sat with a sad face expression.

« Such a result is unacceptable to us. We have our values, we have character, but this time we have not shown it, » said Andritically Mihalik.

« In the previous four matches we were able to please our great fans. They sacrifice a lot of time and money to encourage us here. The gambling rooms can not be able to fight, but we must always fight, » stressed the 22-year-old hockey player.

Coach Majoross evaluated the meeting sober. « Our game did not look good even when the result was still favorable, » he said.

The Hungarians in the previous matches at the tournament showed nice hockey, bravely held against much stronger rivals and Kazakhstan conquered a confident game.

« We did not want to destroy everything we have already built here in ten minutes. We earned respect for previous performances, but we looked bad in this match. Our style is the basis of an active game and good skating, this time both things were missing, » said Gergely Majoross for Nemzeti Sport.

The last minute lasted a long time

The end of the match was marked by a curious incident. Only nine seconds remained from the meeting, but the timekeeper on a large cube showed almost half a minute.

The referees tried to solve the problem, and the terms of the players of both teams revealed that they would prefer to go to the cabins.

Finally, the game continued after about five minutes, although the timekeeping still showed 25.8 seconds to the end. The referee threw the symbolic bulls and no one was rushing behind the puck.

After the ice problems, it was another small kiks of the organizers in Herning.

It is for such details that fans and players ask if the fifty thousand Danish city is really the ideal venue for such a tournament.

Triumphs of favorites

After twenty hours, the Austrians, who succumbed to Canada 1: 5 on Thursday evening, came on the ice, but the next day they conquered France 5: 2.

The first goal was scored in the first minute and after the first period won 3: 0.

« It was an interesting match. We started well, we scored fast goals, which encouraged us. We are very pleased with this win.