SC Magdeburg has reached the round of 16 in the DHB Cup. The German handball champion won on Tuesday at second division team Eulen Ludwigshafen.
The German handball champion SC Magdeburg has reached the round of 16 in the DHB Cup. In the last game of the third round, Bennet Wiegert’s team won against second division team Eulen Ludwigshafen on Tuesday 35:30 (20:19).
Kay Smits was the best Magdeburg shooter with nine goals. Magdeburg started with the recovered Matthias Musche on the left wing and Lucas Meister on the circle, with Piotr Chrapkowski playing in the middle block.
SCM allows Ludwigshafen to come back
The people of the Elbe town got on along the Rhine without covering themselves with glory. It all went brilliantly at first and with the 7:2 and 12:7 before the break it looked like a sovereign march through. But the guests reckoned without the ex-Bundesliga team, who were in no way discouraged and even equalized. At the break, the favorite was only 20:19 ahead.
SC Magdeburg, here with Matthias Musche (right) and Philipp Weber, struggled for a long time with the owls from Ludwigshafen.
In the second round it was tight at first, before the SCM increased the tempo and gained a 28:22 lead. The owls found no answer to that.
Round of 16: Central German trio at home
The round of 16 games are already set: The SCM can play in their own hall shortly before Christmas. It’s on December 21st against the Bundesliga twelfth Bergischer HC.
Second division club HC Elbflorenz will face the 2020 DHB Cup winner, TBV Lemgo, in Dresden. On December 22, Dessau-Roßlauer HV, third in the second division, is expecting Hannover, eighth in the Bundesliga. Ex-national coach and ex-SC-DHfK-Leipzig coach Christian Prokop has just extended his contract there until 2025.
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