Sunday 17th October 2021
Magdeburg marches on
Club world champions can only win
Last week SC Magdeburg won the Club World Championship, now the Magdeburg team beat SG Flensburg-Handewitt in the handball Bundesliga. After an “incredible team performance” they now have seven wins from seven games and are one of the championship contenders.
Seven games, seven wins: SC Magdeburg is developing into a serious championship contender in the handball Bundesliga. In the top duel against SG Flensburg-Handewitt, the newly crowned club world champion won with 33:28 (18:13) and took back the lead from the Füchsen Berlin. Since master THW Kiel did not get past a laborious 21:21 (9:10) at cup winner TBV Lemgo, Magdeburg is the big winner of the game day.
“The team performance was unbelievable today,” said Magdeburg’s outstanding Michael Damgaard at Sky, who shone with ten goals: “We have built up a sense of self-confidence and are incredibly difficult to beat. It’s great that we have such harmony.”
The traditional club from Saxony-Anhalt is preparing to advance into the phalanx of top clubs Kiel and Flensburg and win the first championship since 2001. Just last weekend, the SCM surprisingly overthrew the big favorites FC Barcelona in the final of the Club World Cup in Saudi Arabia. And next Sunday (2 p.m. / Sky) Defending champion Kiel is waiting for the next top game, which Magdeburg can hardly wait. “We have a first place to defend,” said Damgaard.
Flensburg already under pressure
The injury-plagued Flensburg team are under pressure early in the season after their second defeat of the season. With a point ratio of 7: 5, the master’s dreams vanish. “We have to improve significantly,” said SG coach Maik Machulla. Such away games, according to the coach, are currently difficult “because we are not at eye level”.
The North Germans are also in a sporting low across all competitions. A mixed league start was joined by three defeats and a draw in the Champions League and the end of the DHB Cup. The reason for this is also the enormous bad luck with injuries to the three-time champions – especially in the backcourt.
Lasse Möller (cartilage damage), Göran Sögard Johannessen (groin complaints), Magnus Röd (tear of the patellar tendon) and Franz Semper (cruciate ligament) are missing longer. On Thursday, Flensburg reactivated the 37-year-old ex-national player Michael Müller.
Behind Magdeburg (14: 0) and Berlin (13: 1), Kiel (12: 2) is in third place. The Norwegian Harald Reinkind saved THW one point with his eighth goal of the day.