Status: 01.10.2025 10:34 p.m.
Handball Bundesliga club SG Flensburg-Handewitt successfully coped with a difficult task in the second round of the DHB Cup. Thanks to a strong performance, the North Germans prevailed with 38:32 (18:18) at the Rhein-Neckar Löwen and entered the round of 16.
For Löwen coach Maik Machulla, the first duel with his ex-club Flensburg-Handewitt was a disappointment. In the final minutes, the team of SG coach Ales Pajovic showed strong nerves and moved into the next round. In the same way, defending champion THW Kiel also gets into the competition.
“I think we have come a step further today, are becoming more and more constant.”
SG professional Marko Grgic
“The asterisk was not very smooth and shiny. Of course, it has a few spots if you can say that roughly,” said SG rear area player Marko Grgic in an interview with the NDR. “But that was definitely a great test – one of the largest that can be had in the league. I think we have come a step further today, are becoming more and more constant.”
Flensburg Tönnesen trumps strongly
The Flensburgers started the game in Heidelberg, and that was mainly due to Kent Robin Tönnesen. What the 34 -year -old Norwegian did in the middle – it worked. After his first own goal, his allusion led to the second goal of district runner Johannes Golla. And as a Tönnesen shortly afterwards, twice from the nine-meter line by batching the German national goalkeeper David Späth and it was 5-1 for the SG, Löwen coach Machulla was enough.
The native Greifswald took his first time out after seven minutes – mainly because his defenders took tönnesen too late during his throws. “Breast out!” Radium! “He called to his players. At first, however, the guests continued to radiate a wide breast. Lasse Möller provided the first five-goal lead of the Schleswig-Holsteiner (17th) with the 12: 7.
Gradually, however, the lions were getting on track better and better. The hosts were now compact and more aggressive, and behind it after a quarter of an hour the goalkeeper Mike Jensen (parades: 42 percent) took a good job. The lions – thanks to too many technical errors at the SG – caught up in goal, and it was 18:18 at the break. A third of the Flensburg goals went to the Tönnesen account.
Buric becomes a Flensburg support
With a 5: 1 run, the North Germans settled again in the second half to three goals (25:22, 44.) – two rejected seven meters of the hosts contributed to this. And the guests, especially thanks to the parades of goalkeeper Benjamin Buric, expanded their lead. Grgic made the first six-goal lead ten minutes before the end (31:25). Was that already? No!
The lions fought again, shortened to 30:33, whereupon Pajovic immediately took a break. The Flensburg match winner then became Buric, who initially defused a free throw from Haukur Thrastarson and then a seven -meter from Tim Nothdurft. With the latter parade (57th) the game was decided in favor of the SG. The most successful Flensburger were Tönnesen and Lasse Möller with seven goals each.
