Paris (AFP)
Two days after his defeat in Paris in a crucial match of the French Championship, Montpellier reacted by dominating the Ukrainians from Zaporozhye 34 to 30, in the Champions League handball, Sunday in front of his public.
The Montpellier (5 wins, 1 draw, 2 defeats) are only second in their group, two points behind the Germans in Kiel, and ahead of the big Polish and Hungarian teams, Kielce and Veszprem.
Especially, while the return phase has just started, the MHB has already made a big step towards its first goal: to return to the final phase after the failure of last season. He needs to leave at least two teams behind him, but the Belarusians of Brest and the Ukrainians of Zaporozhye are 10 and 11 points behind.
Against them, they had beaten on the wire (26-25) in their room last week, the Montpellier have constantly made the race in the lead after a good start to the game (12-6), despite a run-off before the break (16-15), thanks to a nice offensive efficiency.
"We are happy to produce this beautiful game in attack in front of our audience but it will have to work in defense for the big games that arrive," said BeinSports micro Yanis Lenne, top scorer of the game (8 goals) with the other winger Hugo Descat.
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