Füchse Berlin surprisingly missed out on winning Group A in the European League and are now going into the round of 16 in second place. In the decisive duel for group victory, the Berliners lost 29:30 (15:16) to the Polish club Orsen Wisla Plock on Tuesday evening in front of 2350 spectators.
This means that the foxes are threatened with a Bundesliga duel with SC Magdeburg in a possible quarter-finals. In the round of 16 it is now against HBC Nantes. The best Berlin thrower was Jacob Holm with seven goals.
Coach Jaron Siewert and his assistant Max Rinderle were back with the foxes after surviving the corona infection.
However, your team got off to a bad start and received three time penalties in the first six minutes. Nevertheless, the hectic game was initially very balanced.
The Poles kept up the pace and ripped apart the Berlin cover so often. When the hosts were then unable to take advantage of some clear opportunities, Plock took the lead for the first time with two goals (12:10). The foxes were a little better defensively afterwards, but offensively they still lacked precision too often.
After the change of sides, the foxes were able to take advantage of some mistakes made by the guests and took the lead with two goals for the first time (21:19). But the exploitation of chances remained weak and the hosts ran behind again.
43 seconds before the end, Hans Lindberg equalized again with a seven meter penalty to 29:29. But nine seconds before the end, Plock still scored the winning goal. Lasse Andersson missed the last throw.