Ravensburg and Schwenningen met in a club friendly match on Thursday evening, the 11th of September. The visitors took the points with a 3:6 victory on home ice. Five goals from the away side proved decisive in what opened as a tight contest.
The form lines suggest this was never going to be a clean sheet for either side. Ravensburg had just fallen 2:5 to TVK Innsbruck on the 6th, while Schwenningen's trip to Ajo yielded a 3:4 loss on the 8th. Both teams had been involved in high-scoring affairs recently.
And here's the thing about the visitors' run. Before that defeat to Ajo, they had taken six points from two league games — a 6:1 win over Hur and a 1:3 loss to Ambri-Piotta. Then there was the 2:1 victory over Cologne back in March. They were finding the net, even when results didn't always go their way.
Ravensburg's recent history tells a similar story. Four of their last five matches produced seven or more goals between the sides. The 4:3 wins against Bietigheim, then the 4:5 and 2:4 results, paint a picture of a team that attacks but leaves space behind. To be fair, Schwenningen made them pay for that.
By then, the visitors had built enough of a lead to control the tempo. Six goals is a lot to concede in a friendly, and it suggests the defensive structure wasn't holding firm. The scoreline doesn't lie — Schwenningen outshot and outplayed their hosts for large stretches.