DEL preview, matchday 34: EHC Red Bull München hosts Löwen Frankfurt

Sunday, 05. January 2025 | DEL preview, matchday 34: EHC Red Bull München hosts Löwen Frankfurt

First home game of the new year: Red Bulls want to extend their winning streak against FrankfurtSold-out start to the year in the SAP Garden// DEL - PREVIEWEHC Red Bull München will also kick off the new year at the SAP Garden on Monday. The Löwen Frankfurt will be the guests at 4.30 p.m. As always, the clash will be shown live on Magenta Sport, Sportdeutschland.TV & on our blog.

The SAP Garden will be sold out with 10,796 spectators for the third time in a row and for the ninth time in total for a DEL match against the team from Hessen, who are playing in our new home for the first time.

The points should of course stay in Munich on the holiday in Bavaria (Epiphany), after the bitter 2:3 in the chasing duel last Friday in Cologne, the Red Bulls want to strike back in front of a full house.

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Our boys' first DEL game in 2025 in pictures

Will it be Munich's tenth win in a row against Frankfurt?

And things are going well in our living room at the moment, with coach Max Kaltenhauser's team picking up all possible nine points in the last three home games. Our two goalkeepers Mathias Niederberger and Simon Wolf have conceded just four goals, and their work in their own zone has been key.

We are also currently on the road to success against Frankfurt, as the first two meetings this season went to Munich. There have been two away wins on the Main so far, a 3:2 victory and a 5:4 triumph after a penalty shoot-out.

Highlights: Löwen Frankfurt vs. EHC Red Bull München (03.11.2024)

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This means we have now won nine consecutive competitive games against the Lions this season, so we need to extend this run.

Frankfurt with a derby statement in the Winter Game!

However, the team in eleventh place in the table comes to the Bavarian capital with a powerful tailwind. On Saturday evening, Frankfurt won the "biggest derby of all time". In front of more than 45,000 spectators at Deutsche Bank Park, head coach Tom Rowe's team clearly beat their great rivals Adler Mannheim 5:1 in the Winter Game of the PENNY DEL, thus securing their third win of the season in the third derby against the Palatinate team.

The Löwen took command from the middle third onwards and really heated up in the final period in freezing temperatures. With four goals of their own in just over seven minutes, the team set out on the road to victory. Among them were two powerplay goals, as the overpayment has been a key factor in three wins and nine points from the past four games.

Löwen trio has been scoring regularly for weeks

Striker Chris Wilkie is currently on a real roll. The US-American, who only moved to the Main metropolis at the beginning of November, recorded three assists against Mannheim and has thus scored in the past six games. Overall tally: 21 points in 17 appearances. Together with Carter Rowney and Linus Fröberg, the Swede has also scored in the last six games, Wilkie forms a highly dangerous line.

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The game at Löwen Frankfurt in pictures

Maksim Matushkin has also found his top form after a slight hiccup at the start of the season. The strong blueliner even got on the scoreboard in each of his last seven appearances, and with 26 points the sharpshooter is once again one of the strongest offensive defensemen in the German Ice Hockey League.

DEL record against Frankfurt

Wins: 9

Defeats: 1

Winning percentage: 90 percent

Goal difference: 37:23

Last game: FRA vs RBM 4-5 n.p.

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Last four home games: S S S S S