The Estonian SK Link/Saku won the group B in men’s EFC 2016 tournament after winning TV Lilienthal in an exciting game. In the semi-finals Link/Saku will face UHC Weissenfels. Tunet IBK will play against Lielvarde and TV Lilienthal play for the fifth place against Spartak Moscow.

SK Link/Saku-TV Lilienthal 6-5 (after penalty shots) (1-1, 1-3, 3-0)

TV Lilienthal kept the ball the first 15 minutes but mostly at their own zone. They couldn’t find the space inside SK Link/Saku’s defense. At 06:47 Link/Saku did what they do best – scored with a fast counter attack. Goal scorer was Kristjan Puu. The end of the period was colored by penalties as Sander Stokkeby (Link/Saku) and Torben Kleinhans (TV Lilienthal) both got two minutes penalties and Kristo Lehiste got a 5 minute major because he kicked a Lilienthal player. Lilienthal could tie the game at 16:47 by Fabian Diaz de Armas and had good scoring chances after that. Despite those chances, the first intermission started when the score was 1-1.

The second period was totally TV Lilienthal’s. They scored four times during the first ten minutes by Jaakko Åkman, Janos Bröker, Niklas Bröker and Mark-Oliver Bothe. Kristjan Puu did a nice volley goal in the end of the period to make the score 5-2 for the second intermission.

Nobody knows what happened during the second intermission, but only one team came out of the locker rooms. SK Link/Saku dominated the game and goal by goal tied the game in the end to 5-5. Goal scorers in the last period were Ats Tamme, Kristo Lehiste and Kristjan Puu who scored a hat trick again.

So the game went to penalty shots. Many great performances were seen as beautiful goals and good saves. It was Mats Tamme who scored the decisive goal for the Estonian team as Link/Saku’s goalie Lars Hillar stopped Torben Kleinhans’ next shot.

EFC 2016 webpage: http://efc2016.de