The German handball vice champion SG Flensburg-Handewitt has to tremble in the Champions League for the round of 16.
The team coached by Maik Machulla did not get better than 26:26 (14:13) in Group B in their own hall against FC Porto on the penultimate day of the match.
After the draw, Flensburg still has the Portuguese and Dinamo Bucharest breathing down their necks.
In addition, the continental federation EHF has to clarify how to deal with the Ukrainian representative Motor Zaporozhye and his games that were not played due to the war.
“Sometimes we were too passive. But in the end we had another chance to win the game. We didn’t do that, that’s why we’re disappointed,” said Machulla: “I don’t know exactly what that means in this group, nobody know that at the moment.”
Teitur Örn Einarsson best pitcher at SG Flensburg-Handewitt
With eight goals, Teitur Örn Einarsson was the SG’s most successful thrower, who ran a narrow deficit for long stretches of the second half in a consistently tight game.
Emil Jakobsen equalized shortly before the end, which put Flensburg in fifth place for the time being before their last group game at FC Barcelona on Thursday next week.