Audio: THW professional Zerbe: “Not the coolness broadcast in front of the goal” (2 min)
Status: 25.09.2025 10:05 p.m.
The THW Kiel celebrated the sixth victory in the handball Bundesliga in its sixth season game. Against promoted TSV GWD Minden, the “zebras” effortlessly prevailed on Thursday evening in their own arena with 33:25 (17: 9).
Due to the success in the early game of the 15th matchday, the team of THW coach Filip Jicha improved their start record to 12: 0 points. At the weekend, the Kielers can watch how the competitors deal with the current sixth matchday. The game of the “zebras” at SC Magdeburg was moved to December 23 due to the participation of the Saxony-Anhalt in the Club World Cup in Egypt.
“It was a very deserved victory for over 60 minutes. We can build on that”; THW lawyer Lukas Zerbe said in an interview with the NDR. “Now we have to stand a little more stable in the defense and really run forward with speed, so that we don’t have to rub ourselves up in six against six in the attack.”
THW works into the game and pulls away
The climber from East Westphalia relied on the Misha merchant variant, i.e. without a circular runner, with an additional back room player. The Swiss coach had already had THSV Eisenach played last season and handled it in this way with his current Club TVB Stuttgart.
Kaufmann’s Minden coach colleague Aaron Ziercke had at least success with this tactical measure in the difficult guest performance with this tactical measure that his team only left 3: 4 after eight minutes and Jicha took his first break due to a certain dissatisfaction.
The “zebras” then moved to 7: 3 with a 3-0 run, but it didn’t go any further away. On the contrary: the Schleswig-Holsteiners left some chances, such as Lukas Zerbe via seven meters (16th), and after a good quarter of an hour it was only an 8: 7 lead. But as well as GWD goalkeepers Malte Semisch also held, the THW settled. After goalkeeper Andreas Wolff parried a seven -meter of Mats Korte, Zerbe made the 16: 9 (28th). With a 17: 9 we went into the break.
Game practice for THW talents
Almost six minutes after the restart, the native of Kaltenkirchen, who played for the THW from 1989 to 1993, already took a break at the first ten goal deficit (12:22). Kiel kept the lead roughly without having to do much effort.
Jicha took the opportunity to provide his young goalkeeper Leon Nowottny and 18 -year -old Ramus Ankermann. The back room talent also achieved his first Bundesligator – and added another. The most successful THW professional was the Swedish back area player Eric Johansson with six goals.