Paris (AFP)
Worn by Mikkel Hansen, Paris handball players have won 38 to 29 Wednesday night in Creteil and have retained their invincibility in the Championship of France, while behind, Nimes, Toulouse, Montpellier and Nantes remain tied at six points of PSG.
For this 10th day of Starligue, the teammates of Nikola Karabatic had a short trip to perform in Creteil, without their only left-back professional, Nedim Remili, touched Sunday in the lead in the Champions League against the Germans Flensburg (win 32- 30) and absent for three weeks.
They took a little over twenty minutes to take the measure of the Parisians, led by three goals (10-7, 15th), before returning to logic to regain the locker room with a six-goal lead (20-14).
The author of an impressive 14 of 17 (including 8 penalties on 9) in shooting, the Danish Mikkel Hansen finished top scorer of the meeting, Nikola Karabatic not left with 7 achievements for only two failures.
Behind PSG, which has 20 points, the quintet pursuers has turned into a quartet since Montpellier won the poster of the day, overcoming Aix 32 to 26 in his room Bougnol. A success conquered four days after the difficult victory in the Champions League against the Ukrainians from Zaporozhye (34-30) already at home.
"Honestly, it was difficult to see how the team would react, the match against Zaporozhye was very hard physically, it felt like we had played the day before," commented captain Hérault Valentin Porte at the microphone of beIN Sports .
"We did not let anything loose for 60 minutes, it was a game with a lot of stakes, I'm very happy, we're progressing in the game or in the head," he added.
With 14 points, Montpellier is second in the company of Nantes, which was hooked by Istres (29-26), as well as Toulouse and Nîmes who had less difficulty to get rid of respectively Chartres (32-25) and Ivry (32-23) at home.
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