At first everything indicated a handball top game at eye level, then Mathias Gidel was no longer to be kept: after a intoxicated victory against Melsungen, the Berliners get closer to the championship title.
The Foxes Berlin won the pioneering top game in the handball Bundesliga and have therefore returned to the top of the table. On Thursday evening, the Jaron Siewert team won in front of 9,000 spectators in the Max-Schmeling-Halle at home against the MT Melsungen with 37:29 (18:12).
Forming actors in the game were the Berlin Mathias Gidsel, who set up a new personal league best performance with 15 goals, and keeper Dejan Milosavljev, who held nine balls in the first round alone. Three game days before the end of the season, the capital handball club now leads the table with 52:10 points ahead of SC Magdeburg (51:11) and the MT Melsungen (50:12).
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Lichtlein brings Halle to shake
The tension had been gripped with a view of the summit for days. Both teams were tied in places before the game, the winner would climb the top of the table and thus make a large set in the direction of the championship title.
With two parades in the first few seconds, Füchse goalkeeper Milosavljev already in the jubilee mood, and Nils Lichtlein brought the hall directly to the 1-0 foxes lead through his fine turner.
In the Melsung housing, the national player goalkeeper Adam Morawski, who preferred to Carsten Lichtlein, overcame. The family duel between Nils Lichtlein and his 22-year-old uncle Carsten was eagerly awaited. The 44 -year -old veteran had moved into the squad after a serious knee injury to the Melsung tram goalkeeper Nebosja Simic. But Carsten Lichtlein actually stayed on the bench throughout the game.
Milosavljev lasts five times in ten minutes
The focus was initially on the performance of the Berlin goalkeeper Milosavljev, which was five parades in the first ten minutes alone. The hosts were able to shake off the bitingly defending team around Timo Kastening for the first time after a good quarter of an hour when they gave themselves the lead with 10: 7. Guest coach Roberto Garrondo tried to focus on his players with a break again, without success: Milosavljev really seemed insurmountable, Melsungen seemed unsettled – and the mercilessly final world handball player Mathias Gidsel made 13: 7 by two goals after pace attacks.
The 18: 12 break tour of the foxes already seemed to be a preliminary decision.
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Gidsel cracks his own best performance
After the change of sides, the foxes remained game -determining. The Melsung play morale seemed to be in the 38th minute after a ball loss: Gidel gave the Melsungers the ball early in the game structure, immediately closed at 24:17, and the hall was once again head.
With a further ball win of the foxes in the 48th minute, Gidsel rushed alone towards the guest goal and scored at 30:21. The initially robust defense of Melsung had now fallen completely apart. A few minutes later, the Dane exceeded his personal HBL best with his 15th goal to 35:27. The victory could not be taken away from his Berliners.
Gidel was “a bit nervous”
“In order to become a German champion, we have to work hard for 34 game days,” Füchse player Tim Freihofer told RBB after the game. “Now we have everything in our own hand, and now we want to make the last three games successfully.”
“The last ten days I was a bit nervous for the first time in my career,” Gidsel told the broadcaster Dyn. The victory in the top game “means a lot to me, including the club and the team.” There were still “three heavy games” in front of the foxes. “When we play at 100 percent, we are the best team.”
“Our performance was not good,” said Melsung coach Roberto Garrondo after the party at Dyn. But he was “proud of the team. At the moment, Berlin is two points ahead of us. We still have three games and will try to win them.”
