Fauchart's 4 points boost Valenciennes past Tornado Luxembourg

Photo par Luc Auzou



19 January 2013

The Diables Rouges Valenciennes hosted the Tornado Luxembourg in the Patinoire Valigloo on January 19th, where the Tornado Luxembourg were resoundingly defeated 6-2 by their host in front of a crowd filled with around 400 fans that were taking care of an incredible atmosphere.



The home team set the tone in the first period right off the first faceoff, and were absolutely dictating the game in the first 15 minutes. It was Thomas Fauchart who opened the scoring for the hosts at 2:50. At 6:14, it was Anthony Wagret who put the puck in the net again for the hosts on a feed from Thomas Fauchart and Romain Sauvage. Alexandre Capet added another goal only 48 seconds later after being assisted by Gregoire Giguere. Only 1 minute later, Antoine Janot added another goal to the sheet. Sacha Backes tallied for the guests at 16:11 on a pass by Colm Cannon. At the end of the first, the score was 4-1, giving the home team the lead.



The Tornados came back in the second period, but still didn't manage to turn around the game. Thomas Fauchart scored a goal for the hosts at 31:31, but only 30 seconds later, defenceman Ronny Scheier managed to cut down the deficit with a good shot from the point to make it 5-2.



The home team held on to their lead and kept control of the game throughout the third and last period. Thomas Fauchart scored the hattrick to make it 6-2.



Best scorer of the game was Thomas Fauchart of Valenciennes with 4 points. For the Tornado Luxembourg, tonight's game was not a reflection of their usual offensive and defensive standard. The facts that their 6 points against are above this season's average of 3.31 and the 2 points scored are below the average 7.13 points, show that they were simply not playing their game. Out of these two teams' last 6 encounters, Valenciennes won 50% of the games (3 out of 6). Next on the schedule for the Tornado Luxembourg is Dijon II on January 26th.





Pictures of the game can be found here:

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