HC Hard pulled off a surprise in the penultimate group game of the European League!
Austria’s handball runners-up prevailed on Tuesday at the Croatian top team RK Nexe with 29:22 (14:12). Promotion to the round of 16 had already been out of reach. Die Harder celebrated their first win of the current group phase at the ninth attempt. Previously, only a 30:30 home draw in December against Balatonfüredi KSE from Hungary was recorded. In the home game against Nexe, Harder suffered a clear 24:35 defeat at the end of November. Hard drew level with BalatonfürediIn the second leg in Nasice, Karolis Antanavicius and Luca Raschle convinced with five goals each. Dominik Schmid, Nikola Stevanovic, Nico Schnabl and Jadranko Stojanovic each contributed four goals. Nexe, as the leader of the table, was already clear as a climber before the game. Hard drew level with Balatonfüredi on points with their first win in the competition. The final European League game for Harder next Tuesday (8:45 p.m.) is at home against BM Granollers from Spain. In the domestic league, Vorarlberg will welcome champions UHK Krems on Friday (6.30 p.m.) in a repeat of last year’s final.
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