Handball: DHB-Cup: Hanover hot for title holder Kiel

Bundesliga club TSV Hannover-Burgdorf is going into the round of sixteen in the DHB Cup against defending champion THW Kiel with a lot of self-confidence.The league team is determined to repeat his league coup from the third matchday, when the knights defeated the record champion in a foreign arena 31:29.

“It will be very difficult, but not impossible,”said Hanover coach Carlos Ortega before the game on Wednesday (18.30 hrs).Playmaker Morten Olsen said:”Kiel is a great team.

But we have self-confidence because of the victory at the weekend and we always want to win every game” Hanover had taught the Füchsen Berlin their first defeat of the season in the 33:27 victory on Sunday.Kiel has recently won twice after a weak start in the league.

In the second cracker game of the round of the last 16, the SG Flensburg-Handewitt meets the Foxes Berlin.Last year, these two teams met again in the last sixteen.

Flensburg won after a dramatic game and an extra time of 36:34.”We definitely want to win in order to take another step towards Hamburg,”said SG Managing Director Dierk Schmäschke.

The final four of the best four teams will be on 5th place.and 6.May in Hamburg.