Victory against Slovakia
Handball women buy their European Championship ticket early
Germany’s Alexia Hauf (l) celebrates after a goal. photo
© Marco Wolf/dpa
The DHB selection also solves the second compulsory task against Slovakia confidently and can now fully concentrate on the Olympic qualification.
With a confident performance, Germany’s handball players secured their ticket to the European Championships early. The team of national coach Markus Gaugisch came against them in Düsseldorf Slovakia achieved an easy 32:18 (17:7) victory and can therefore plan for the finals from November 28th to December 15th in Austria, Hungary and Switzerland.
The DHB selection, for which Jenny Behrend and Alexia Hauf were the best throwers with four goals each in front of 3,011 spectators, can use the qualifying games against the pointless group bottom Israel and Ukraine at the beginning of April as preparation for the fight for the Olympics a week later -Use ticket. At the four-team tournament in Neu-Ulm, the German team wants to qualify for the Summer Games for the first time since 2008 against Slovenia, Montenegro and Paraguay.
Unlike the 40:18 in the first leg last Thursday, the German team needed a short run-up time to get the game under control. After ten minutes it was only 6:6. But then the DHB team turned up the heat and didn’t allow a goal for 17 minutes. The reward was a ten-goal cushion at halftime.
In anticipation of a certain victory, the sixth-placed World Cup player had a few lapses in concentration after the substitution, but continued to control the action and was particularly convincing in defense.