Handball: defeat in Magdeburg: Record champion Kiel loses the match

Record champion THW Kiel loses sight of the international places in the Handball Bundesliga more and more. The coach Alfred Gislason’s team has already won their third defeat of the year at SC Magdeburg with 26:31 (13:16) and continues to occupy a disappointing sixth place.

“Unfortunately, we missed many clear opportunities, and that’s how we came to this conclusion,”said Sky’s Icelandic coach. The “zebras” play their weakest season in 15 years and now have to win the Champions League to qualify for the top flight again.

Until the 42nd. The visitors from the north were still on target for the second minute, but within five minutes the two-goal gap (20:22) grew to five goals (21:26). Matthias Musche was the best marksman of the first German Champions League winner from Magdeburg with seven goals in eight attempts, while Robert Weber scored six goals in front of 6800 spectators. At the THW, Christian Dissinger and Raul Santos met five times each.

The first pursuer of the front runner Rhein-Neckar Löwen remains the foxes Berlin, who beat VfL Gummersbach 31:24 (11:14). Unstoppable was the duo Hans Lindberg and Steffen Fäth, who played in front of 6122 spectators, nine respectively. eight times.

Runner-up SG Flensburg-Handewitt, who had no trouble at all in their 30:24 (15:9) win in the final leg of the standings Eulen Ludwigshafen, will follow only one point behind the Berliners. Two thirds of the Flensburg goals were scored by Hampus Wanne and Lasse Svan (10 goals each).

TSV Hannover-Burgdorf also consolidated their position in the leading group, while the fourth place from Lower Saxony won against TuS N-Lübbecke 28:26 (14:12). DHfK Leipzig set the season’s best mark. Coach Michael Biegler’s team beat ex-champion TBV Lemgo 26:19 (12:13) in front of their home crowd, scoring only six goals in the second half.