The Foxes Berlin clearly won an exciting start to the season of the Champions League. In Nantes, the battered association got confidence. The capitals won 40:34 (16:17) on Thursday evening and scored the first two points.
The after -effects of the eventful season opener and the clear defeat to the start of the Bundesliga against Magdeburg were clearly felt. The foxes started nervously into the turbulent first gaming. Berlin had to take a lot of effort against the attacks by the playful French. As a result, there were justified seven-meter whistles against the Germans, which the secure shooter Valero Rivera all stored in the Berlin goal. The Spaniard had collected five goals until the break, and there should be a total of seven for him by the end of the game.
Darj flies down twice
The lead in the game changed again and again from the eighth minute, the first two-minute penalty against Nantes seemed to bring the guests to the front clearly before the break. But the game turned again at lightning speed.
Because Foxes captain Max Darj had to get out of the plate for two minutes in the 27th minute after a foul, and was sent out three minutes later – after the punishment dismissed. HBC Nantes also went into the break thanks to an excellent keeper Ivan Pesic with a short 17:16 lead.
Furious start to the second half
Despite the outnumber of the start in the second round, Berlin came from the cabins much more concentrated than at the start of the game. Also because the replacement goalkeeper Lasse Ludwig, which was taken in the first phase of the game, showed multiple outstanding reflexes, the foxes benefited from their quick switching game and settled with three goals up to the 37th minute (24:21).
Fired by the French indoor animator, who heated up the viewer in the Breton city for 60 minutes, the French kept. Pesic kept what was to be kept – but the Berlin train got better and better.
Stable Berliner expand leadership
Led by a now determined Mathias Gidsel (at the end with ten goals once more best Berlin goal scorer) the Foxes Berlin continuously expanded their leadership. In the 44th minute the German champion was ahead with seven goals.
Nantes tried a lot, but Nicolej Krickau’s team no longer gave the clear lead and celebrated the first success of the new season.