Olten beat Landshut 4:1 in a club friendly match on Thursday evening. The Swiss side made the most of having Landshut on their patch, while the German visitors arrived after a difficult spell.
Olten came into this fixture in decent shape. They had won four of their last five games, including a 3:1 victory over Basel and a 4:1 win against Arosa. By then they were building momentum for the new campaign.
Landshut, meanwhile, had not won since March when they beat Düsseldorf 4:1. Three straight defeats against Krefeld Pinguins — 4:7, 2:5, 4:12 — had left them reeling. And here's the thing about teams on a bad run: they tend to carry that weight into their next game.
The result ended Landshut's winless streak in competitive fixtures, even if this was only a friendly. For Olten it was another win in their run of good form, though the opponent was not of the quality they would face in league play.
To be fair, the scoreline does not tell the full story of a friendly, but it showed Olten could capitalise when Landshut were vulnerable. The visitors will need to regroup before their next competitive fixture.