SC Magdeburg set a big exclamation mark in the top game of the handball Bundesliga and, in the first game, outclassed the Foxes Berlin under its new coach Nicolej Krickau.
The SCM won 39:32 (22:13) in Berlin on the 3rd matchday and thus added a memorable bankruptcy to the defending champion. The Berliners had caused a bang during the week and initially released sports director Stefan Kretzschmar and then also released master coach Jaron Siewert. The Dane Krickau was hired as a successor for both positions. “We had to try to find a solution that is promising and decided on Nicolej Krickau as the overall concept”said Füchse managing director Bob Hanning during the half-time break in the sports show.
“Here the shareholders make the decision and not the players, the decision has also been made.added Hanning, after rumors had arisen that the team might also have wanted a change in the coaching position.
SCM keeper Hernandez Ferrer in Galaform
The Magdeburger directly caught the better start to the game – that was also due to goalkeeper Sergey Hernandez Ferrer, who had already parried four litters from the Berliner after six minutes and thus enabled his SCM the dreaded speed game.
But even in the bound game, the Magdeburgers kept coming into the local throwing zone and developed various seven meters that Omar Ingi Magnusson confidently converted. So it was 6: 3 for the guests after 7 minutes. At the 10: 5, Krickau took his first break in the service of the foxes – in the attack, his seven tried too much to enforce conclusions about Mathias Gidel and defensively got the fast Magdeburg too often too late. Krickau also brought goalkeeper Lasse Ludwig to the record for the previously hapless Dejan Milosavljev and Ludwig parried an important speed of speed from Lukas Mertens at 11: 7.
The goalkeeper change initially helped, after 17 minutes it was only 12:10 and accordingly Magdeburg’s coach Bennet Wiegert was now forced to take a break, in which he certified his team a good performance and only warned them about the discipline at the end. And just like that of his counterpart before, this time -out fruits: The SCM restored the old gap and continued to pull away from Magnusson at 17:11. That led to Krickaus second timeout after only 22 minutes – a rarity.
Berlin Managing Director Hanning for the break: “We can no longer turn the game”
But the Magdeburg attack train – he was an ICE that day. The Berliners hardly ever came to their defense network and the SCM defensive made it easy for their goalkeeper to parry the finals of the foxes with good aggressive shift. Hernandez Ferrer parried two free drops of the Gidsel, otherwise so accurate, and the Max Schmeling-Halle was suddenly unusually quiet.
The fact that the Spanish keeper complained to the referees a head hit, which in the opinion of the TV pictures, but still saw a time penalty for the Gidsel, rounded off the first round for the hosts. The 22:13 at the break completely corresponded to the balance of power, the SCM was sharp and wide awake, the Champions League winner from Berlin sometimes looked helpless. Hanning said very soberly at half -time: “So we can’t turn the game anymore.”
Magdeburg manages the second round clever
Even after the break, in which there were sympathy explorations for ex-coach Siewert in the hall, Gidsel promptly missed a free end. Krickau, who first trained with his new team, tried various personnel alternatives, but a real improvement did not want to occur. Gisli Kristjansson directed extremely wise at Magdeburg and so the guests played the clear break from the break with long attacks and answered the question about the favorite about the championship, in the meantime the distance was eleven goals. Only in the final minutes did the hosts achieve some cosmetics of results. The best shooters were Magnusson (9/6) at the SCM and Lasse Andersson (9) at the foxes.
“We did our thing and conquered very important away points for us early in the season. I saw a real Magdeburg team, I would like to highlight them”said Bennet Wiegert, who expressly as his team “Not a matter of course” declared. Krickau said: “It is clear to everyone that this was far from an optimal first performance. But first of all congratulations to Magdeburg, they played with so much clarity and sharpness from the start that we never found our game in the first half.”