Handball: Erlangen has to do without goalkeeper Katsigiannis

HC Erlangen has to mourn the next injured person.Nikolas Katsigiannis, the goalkeeper, has a torn muscle bundle in the back of his right thigh for about six weeks.The 35-year-old suffered his injury in a 26-26 draw on Thursday against ascendant TV Hüttenberg.The club announced this on Friday.

“We have complete confidence in the two finalists Gorazd Skof and Michael Haßferter and will therefore not be active in the transfer market,”said Managing Director René Selke.

Prior to that, Johannes Sellin and Jonas Thümmler, right-wing striker and right-wing striker, who will also be missing from the Franconian first division team, had already injured themselves.Erlangen will meet the surprise leader TSV Hannover-Burgdorf next Thursday in the Handball Bundesliga.