The 94.Handball classics between the northern rivals THW Kiel and SG Flensburg-Handewitt have failed to win, and record champion Kiel has missed the liberation stroke in the Champions League.
The Kiel team had to make do with a 20:20 (9:7) on the fifth matchday in a defensive battle and missed a possible victory.
“We would have deserved two points, so I’m very angry,”said Kiel’s coach Alfred Gislason at Sky.At the last attack 17 seconds to go, Kiels missed Niclas Ekberg’s chance to win, and Gislason had seen a foul by Kentin Mahe:”That was such a clear seven-metre shot.”
The THW, which started the season very weakly, in the Bundesliga last with two victories in the upward trend, is with three points only penultimate of the eighth group, Flensburg (6) is on place three.
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The first in the group qualifies directly for the quarter-finals.The next five teams in the group of eight will move into the last sixteen.
In a very competitive encounter from the beginning, the team from Kiel took the lead again and again, in the second half with 14:11 and later with 19:17, but Flensburg could not be shaken off.