Unusual feelings at SC Magdeburg, recently the SCM caught two defeats in a row (Paris, Flensburg). On Thursday (October 6th) it’s international again, against the Polish runner-up Wisla Plock, the Wiegert team wants to get back on the road to success.
For the third time in a row, SC Magdeburg can count on home advantage in Group A of the Champions League. On Thursday (October 6th) Bennet Wiegert’s team will meet the Polish runner-up Orlen Wisla Plock in the GETEC Arena. “Sport in the East” ticks live from 6:45 p.m.
Lost lead in Group A
SC Magdeburg’s clean slate got its first stains after the last international game against Paris Saint-Germain with ex-SCM keeper Jannick Green. In the end the fell Defeat with 22:29 pretty clear. With that, the lead in Group A was gone, which Telekom Veszprem now holds with 6:0 points.
SCM coach Wiegert: “I’m just glad that we don’t have any travel stress”
After two bankruptcies in a row, that too Point game at the SG Flensburg-Handewitt was lost with 34:35, the Magdeburgers want to get back on the road to success as quickly as possible. SCM trainer Bennet Wiegert said in the Bild newspaper: “Like last week, with Wisla and Melsungen, two teams have the quality to take points in Magdeburg. I’m just glad that we don’t have any travel stress. We just have to get into ours now Invest feeling. So really say: We need the sense of achievement now.”
Star of the guests: Daniel Sarmiento
Like the SCM, the Poles are currently at 4:2 points. Most recently, the team of Spanish coach Xavi Sabate won at home against Svendborg Gudme with 31:27.
Overall, the Polish team takes part in the premier class for the 15th time. In the summer of this year there was a change in personnel, seven new players came. The star of the Wisla handball team is the Spaniard Daniel Sarmiento: the backcourt player came from the French club Saint-Raphaël Var Handball, for whom he had been on the floor for six years before he joined Wisla.
The Spaniard Daniel Sarmiento is the star at Wisla Plock. (Archive)
2021: SCM wins razor-thin against Plock
The duel between SC Magdeburg and Wisla Plock is not a premiere. Already in May 2021, both opponents faced each other in the EHF Cup semifinals. It was an exciting game, which the SCM won on home soil with 30:29.
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