SC Magdeburg is close to winning its second championship title in the Handball Bundesliga. The leader of the table won 32:22 (17:11) at HSV Hamburg on Sunday and only needs one point from the remaining three games to complete the title win.
If pursuer THW Kiel (50:10 points), who maintained his theoretical chance of winning the championship with a 28:27 (13:12) in the derby at SG Flensburg-Handewitt on Sunday, does not win his catch-up game on Thursday against TuS N-Lübbecke, Magdeburg (58:4) has reached its goal prematurely. Otherwise, the former Champions League winner can make everything clear at home against HBW Balingen-Weilstetten on June 2nd
In Hamburg, Magdeburg’s Omar Ingi Magnusson was the outstanding player with twelve goals in the 29th win of the season in 31st game.
In Flensburg, 6,300 spectators had seen Kiel’s first victory over its northern rivals in five years. The Norwegian THW top star Sander Sagosen scored ten times. “This victory feels very good. But we also defended very well,” said THW trainer Filip Jicha, who only qualified with his team on Thursday in the Champions League for the Final Four in Cologne, on the Sky microphone . The Czech promised his players a Monday off.
The foxes Berlin are still in the middle of the fight for the two Champions League places. The third in the table prevailed with 31:25 (22:18) at HC Erlangen.