Handball: Handball: Lions sovereign, foxes remain without loss of points

The Rhine-Neckar lions remain the front runners, while the foxes Berlin are the only team in the Handball Bundesliga to remain in the lead without losing points: while the defending champion from Mannheim mastered his compulsory task against ascendant TV Hüttenberg, the foxes won the pursuit duel at SC DHfK Leipzig.

The record champion THW Kiel was also able to celebrate two defeats in the league after last year’s defeats.The crisis-ridden Champions League participant prevailed at the HC Erlangen 31:20 (14:10).For Kiel, it was only their fourth victory in the eighth game of the season (8:8), while Steffen Weinhold (6) scored the most goals in Franconia.

The second defeat in a row was won by the former surprise team from TSV Hannover-Burgdorf.Two days after the lions’ clear bankruptcy, the Lower Saxony team lost 29:31 (15:15) to MT Melsungen and slipped to third place (12:6 points).The SG Flensburg-Handewitt’s 28:28 (13:13) equalization shortly before the end of the season prevented the SG Flensburg-Handewitt from losing the third defeat of the season at FA Göppingen and follows in fourth place (11:5).

In Mannheim, the lions moved away from Hüttenberg shortly before the break.Harald Reinkind and Andy Schmid (both 7) scored most often in front of 4598 spectators.

The foxes couldn’t break away in Leipzig for a long time, Steffen Fäth scored the winning goal for the guests from the capital in the turbulent closing phase, it was his ninth goal.Only Leipzig’s Philipp Weber was more successful with eleven goals.

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The lions will play their fourth match in seven days at IFK Kristianstad in Sweden in the Champions League on Saturday at 5.30 pm.

To date, the Mannheim team has won against Polish representative Wisla Plock and a draw against the title contender FC Barcelona.

Kiel will meet MKB Veszprem on Sunday (17.00 hrs) in Hungary.Of the first three games, the three-time champion has only won one.