Author of the 1-0 during the 2-0 victory over Friborg at Les Vernets, Vincent Praplan is going through a prosperous period. It’s been a week since the Valaisan has found his “touch”.
You have to go back a week, no more. Last Wednesday. During the Champions League round of 16 second leg and a 7-4 victory over Lausanne, Praplan scored a quadruple.
Since then, the former Kloten and Berne player has built on this explosion and has not stopped there. Four league matches, 3 goals and 3 assists. Enough to forget the absence due to injury of the usual garnet top scorer, Teemu Hartikainen. And to perfect the imitation of his teammate, Vincent Praplan had the right to play with the Finnish duo Manninen and Granlund.
We perhaps tend to forget it because of the constellation of stars within the Geneva squad, but Vincent Praplan is a player who got used to responsibilities very early on. In Kloten, he formed a formidable triplet with Denis Hollenstein and Tommi Santala. The Valaisan has this goalscoring gene in him and these days he is rediscovering it.
“A few weeks ago, we mainly had a line that worked, he analyzes. But now it’s up to us, the Swiss, to help the team. Personally since this quadruplet, I think less, I play more on instinct by making me forget behind the defense It’s paying off for the moment and I’m not going to change anything.
When asked what it’s like to play with two stars like Manninen and Granlund, the Sierre native can only appreciate: “They are two very good players, super intelligent. They are very efficient in what they do in always being in the right place offensively and defensively You “just” have to find the space.”
Lots (too much?) of hockey
To dominate Fribourg, Geneva was able to use its head more than its legs, letting the Friborgs shoot, but generally from the sides. “We didn’t necessarily have the legs tonight, because we’ve been playing a lot of hockey lately,” explains Praplan. “So we tried to skate less in all directions and stay compact in the middle by leaving them on the sides as much as possible. It wasn’t the sexiest of matches, but the main thing is victory.”
If Monday’s improbable victory against Ambri with this comeback from 0-4 to finally win 6-5 ap helped to solidify the character of the Garnets, it should not hide the insane schedule imposed on the Eagles. For the past week, Jan Cadieux’s men have played 5 games in 8 days. And until December 8, the Genevans will still be entitled to six matches.
“We prefer competition to training, that’s for sure, but you still wonder if it’s good for your health to play as many matches as that,” asks the Valaisan. When you play four games a week two weeks in a row, you have very little rest We ask ourselves questions, but we are not going to complain either and it’s the same for a lot of teams.
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