In the third attempt, defending champions SC Magdeburg finally achieved their first win of this Champions League season – the Wiegert team led the Slovenian record champions RK Celje in an impressive way.
With the biggest win in their own Champions League history, defending champion SC Magdeburg has beaten them all Frustration of the last few days thrown from the soul and brilliantly passed the dress rehearsal for the Bundesliga classic on Saturday evening against record champions THW Kiel. The Saxony-Anhalts duped RK Celke from Slovenia at 39:23 (20:13) with some great tempo handball according to all the rules of the art. The Wiegert team had a clear defeat in the two opening games on the international stage Veszprem and Barcelona lost.
Goal throw Matthias Musche (Magdeburg, 6)
Musche and Pettersson pave the way
Celje was only able to make its mark in front of the almost 4,000 spectators in the Getec Arena until the 12th minute. After Mitja Janic’s 6:8 from SCM’s point of view, the hosts became more and more intoxicated minute by minute. A subsequent 10-1 run until the 23rd minute paved the way for Magdeburg.
Coach Bennet Wiegert had recently missed the killer instinct, but this Wednesday evening his players found it again and achieved 75 percent throwing efficiency. Above all, the two outstanding outside players Matthias Musche (7 goals, all in the first half) and Daniel Pettersson (6 goals) played a significant role in the all too early preliminary decision.
Wiegert: “Perhaps not to be expected with this clarity”
In addition, Omar Ingi Magnusson, the best thrower of the game with eight goals, put in an exclamation point performance, not least from the seven-meter line. In addition, keeper Nikola Portner alone contributed 14 saves to this demonstration of power. The icing on the cake of the game against hopelessly overwhelmed guests was a fantastic Kempa from Felix Claar to left winger Lukas Mertens, who made it 33:19 with a lob (53′).
“I had the feeling that we were awake the whole time and worked on the result so that there were no questions raised today. We managed to do that – and perhaps this clearly wasn’t to be expected,” said Wiegert after the game MDR interview.
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