On Tuesday (01/18/22, in live ticker on Sportschau.de) the team of national coach Alfred Gislason meets Poland, which also has 4-0 points after successes against Belarus and Austria. Goalkeeper Johannes Bitter and field players Rune Dahmke, Sebastian Firnhaber, Paul Drux and Fabian Wiede arrived in the Slovakian capital by midday and are eligible to play after negative PCR tests. This was announced by the German Handball Federation (DHB).
For the game against Poland, the DHB team also has to do without goalkeeper Till Klimpke and Marcel Schiller. Both received a positive result after the PCR test taken on Tuesday morning and have also gone into isolation. The DHB team will therefore compete against Poland with 14 players.
DHB team with nine failures
National coach Alfred Gislason therefore nominated goalkeeper Johannes Bitter from HSV Hamburg and field players Fabian Wiede, Paul Drux (both Füchse Berlin), Rune Dahmke (THW Kiel) and Sebastian Firnhaber (HC Erlangen) late on Monday evening.
The quintet arrived in the German EM venue in Bratislava on Tuesday, but initially had to go into isolation at the team hotel. After the negative results of their PCR tests were available, all of them can be used against Poland, the DHB announced. This means that Coach Gislason can use 14 players in the final game of the preliminary round of the European Championship.
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As of: 01/18/2022, 3:20 p.m