Handball Bundesliga: MT Melsungen wins against the record scenes against Löwen

The handball players of the MT Melsungen wrestle the Rhein-Neckar Löwen in front of more than 5000 fans in the home game. Melsungen remains thick in the championship race.

With a hard fight, the MT Melsungen handball players also won their 14th Bundesliga home game of the season. Against the Rhein-Neckar Löwen, the North Hesse ultimately earned on Sunday afternoon with 25:22 (13: 9). The championship candidate even climbed to the top temporarily, but around an hour and a half later the Foxes Berlin moved again by winning Bietigheim In the table over.

Especially: more than 5000 fans followed the home success of the MT. The Melsungers had to move from their actual home venuethe Rothenbach-Halle, into the larger North Hesse Arena, in which the ice hockey cracks of the Kassel Huskies are otherwise playing. The most successful thrower of the hosts was captain Timo Kastening with seven goals. “It wasn’t the most beautiful handball game, but in the end it doesn’t matter,” said Kastening at Dyn: “The two points count.”

Different Phases

After initial difficulties, the MT worked into the game over a strong defense and a good goalkeeper Adam Morawski in the course of the first section. A 5-0 run in the meantime also gave the home side a performance-based four-goal lead for the break. The MT was simply the better team, especially the one for which it was much more. The different voltage states of the two teams were very obvious in some phases.

In the second half, however, the MT started sleepy, gave the supposedly safe lead with lightly within three and a half minutes. It was only after seven minutes in the second section that the hosts scored a goal again. The game started again. But the home side were better. They had more quality and train at the front in their ranks and a convincing goalkeeper Morawski (32 percent held balls).