If Kiel lose, the successful title defense should finally be history – and Magdeburg will cool the championship sparkling wine twelve weeks before the season finale. Eight minus points separate both clubs in the table, the Magdeburg-Express rolls through the Handball Bundesliga with impressive dominance.
“We have to face reality: Magdeburg is playing an outstanding season, we are no longer thinking about the championship,” said THW keeper Niklas Landin. For the Schleswig-Holsteiners, it’s all about second place and the associated qualification for the Champions League.
The ARD shows the top game on Saturday from 5.50 p.m. live on the first and in the live stream here on NDR.de.
If everything were that simple and if a recipe for victory could be created, THW trainer Filip Jicha believes that four “ingredients” must be included: “To win a top game, you need top performers who work and a good completion rate. But also unconditional will and a bit of courage.”
True to the motto: If everything were really perfectly coordinated, even a game with the sovereign table leader could become an excellent taste experience. The only problem is that for the Kielers the last five Bundesliga games at SCM tasted like rock-hard black bread, which they still had to nibble on days later.