Nuremberg (dpa) – With a 38:36 (20:18) win at HC Erlangen, SC Magdeburg took the next step towards the first championship title in the Handball Bundesliga in 21 years.
Thanks to the success in front of 5287 spectators in Nuremberg, the table leader with 52:4 points has six minus points less than pursuer THW Kiel (48:10), who played one game more. In a game that was as competitive as it was dramatic, Omar Ingi Magnusson was the top scorer with nine goals for the SCM, who had reached the semi-finals in the European League at the beginning of the week. Johannes Sellin also scored nine times for Erlangen.
In the fight for a place in the Champions League, fourth-placed Füchse Berlin celebrated an extremely important 30:28 (12:15) victory at HSG Wetzlar. With 44:12 points, the capital club, for which Hans Lindberg and Jacob Holm were the top scorers each with seven goals, is still close to record champions Kiel and runners-up SG Flensburg-Handewitt (44:12).