Tor spectacle when making amends: Germany’s handball players have completed the European Championship qualification with a canteen victory.
The team of national coach Alfred Gislason effortlessly won 44:26 (21:11) in Stuttgart against outsid Türkiye and thus ended Group 7 unbeaten with 10: 2 points. Germany has never scored so many goals in Gislason’s term in one game.
The Euro ticket could not be taken before the last double game day, since the draw in Switzerland on Wednesday (32:32) was also clear – but Gislason’s team absolutely wanted to show better performance than with the Swiss Consumers. This was impressive: During the EM show, the Gummersbacher Miro Schluroff convinced with six goals as the best thrower. Some regulars such as goalkeeper Andreas Wolff and Johannes Golla were spared, but Julian Köster first led the national team as captain.
“The victory gives us a good feeling. It was important that we started well. We spoke a lot about what we wanted to change. It worked,” said temporary captain Köster.
The European Championship draw will take place on Thursday in HERNING DANNISCHE, groupplace one helps for the seed list. The game against Turkey was also the last competitive game before the tournament in Denmark, Sweden and Norway (January 15 to February 1). The DHB team is now saying goodbye to a more than five-month break without an international match, and the upcoming course with test games will only continue at the end of October.
Seven junior world champions from 2023 and twelve players who are born in 2000 or younger were in the squad on Sunday. “The players who are there have a good chance of showing themselves,” announced Gislason. It takes an increase in the Porsche Arena after the extensive parts of a frightening Switzerland game.
Over 40 hits
Unlike in many games before, the German team, which was operating with three right -handers in the back room, caught a dream start this time, after less than four minutes it was 5-0. In the front, Schluroff shone in the right back with almost perfect throw yield, David Späth nailed the box at the back. Only after a good eight minutes did the overwhelmed Turks score the first goal at the score of 1: 7.
With the first change after a quarter of an hour, negligence crept into German game, but Turkey could hardly capitalize. Aron Seesing and Matthes Langhoff now celebrated their international debut, at 20:10 after 29 minutes the lead grew to ten goals for the first time.
After the break, the false throws of the German team piled up, so the defense was no longer so determined in front of the Joel Bire Lehm, which was now in goal. Nevertheless, the distance continued to grow, the class difference was always noticeable. Gislason eagerly tested his staff in the different positions. Timo Kastening scored the 40th goal seven minutes before the end – more should follow.
Germany – Türkiye 44:26 (21:11). – Tore: Schluroff (6), Fischer (5), Köster (5), Kastening (5), Grgic (4/2 seven meters), Nothdurft (4), Freihöfer (4), Lichtlein (2), Witzke (2), Uscins (2), Häseler (2), Knorr (1), Lanesing (1) for Germany – Pehlivan (5/1), Bicer (4), Yildirim (4), Yildiz (4), Herseklioglu (3), Kelesoglu (2), Tinkir (2), Yagmuroglu (1), Hacioglu (1) for Turkey. – Spectators in Stuttgart: 6149