As of: December 26th, 2021 8:16 am
The handball players of SG Flensburg-Handewitt want to put a present under the tree for themselves. Today the SC Magdeburg, without any loss points, comes to the top Bundesliga game in the “sold out” arena.
Because the new Corona restrictions are not yet effective, the Flensburg team can still look forward to the support of 3,150 fans in the last game before the European Championship break. “We want to counter this. We have the quality that we can play a very good handball at home,” said SG coach Maik Machulla, whose team has already dropped seven points in times of serious injury concerns and deadlines in the Champions League Duel third against first (2 p.m.).
Last difficult away game for Magdeburg
Alfred Gislason does not think “that SC Magdeburg can now take the title. On paper it is already the last away game for one of the supposedly big players,” said the national coach, who made the SCM 2001 the only German one to date Championship has led.
Of course, Flensburg and the THW, which is currently in second place, have not yet given up. 16 victories of Magdeburg in the first 16 games – including in the first leg against Flensburg (33:28) – speak a clear language.
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Nice at the record champions Kiel (29:27), at the Füchsen Berlin and also at the Rhein-Neckar Löwen, Magdeburg passed all the tests with outstanding results. For Gislason this is due to the “very nice breadth of the squad” – and to coach Bennet Wiegert. “Benno does it very well”, praised the national coach, the team play “extremely stable down their boots in attack as in defense”.
Fight for the Champions League qualification
Machulla also said: “With the many victories, the Magdeburgers got bigger and bigger, something must go wrong if they let the title be stolen.” However, the 44-year-old is not interested in the victory series of the Sachsen-Anhalter. His aim is to collect two more points in the fight for re-qualification for the Champions League.
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