Cologne (Germany) (AFP)
The handball players of Paris SG won 31 to 26 against the Hungarians of Veszprem in the match for third place of the "Final Four" of the 2019/2020 edition of the Champions League, Tuesday in Cologne (Germany)
PSG had been eliminated the day before in the semifinals by Barcelona, which faces the striker of Veszprem, the Germans from Kiel, at 19:30 GMT for a tenth title in C1.
French and Hungarians are always chasing after a first European coronation.
Still deprived of Nikola Karabatic (injury), as well as Luc Steins and Henrik Toft Hansen (positive for Covid-19) and with a starting seven largely altered compared to the day before, Paris had a complicated start to the meeting.
Raul Gonzalez's players have come up against Vezprem goalkeeper Rodrigo Corrales on several occasions, who played in the red and blue jersey last season and was responsible for qualifying PSG for this "Final Four".
Like Mikkel Hansen, author of two jets of 7m missed (4th, 18th).
But at the other end of the field, Yann Genty, who arrived in the summer of 2020 to compensate for the departure of Corrales, replied (45% efficiency in the first period) and his stops allowed his teammates to take three goals. gap at half-time (14-11).
In the second half, Paris controlled the game and prevented Veszprem from making the same comeback as the day before against Kiel, who had pushed the semi-final to extra time.
Nedim Remili, center-half in the final tournament, and Elohim Prandi are the top scorers on the Paris side, with six goals each.
From Monday evening and the lost semi-final, the priority of Mikkel Hansen's teammates was to "work harder, to come back even stronger" and to qualify for the "Final Four" of the 2021/2021 edition, already underway. , in six months (June 12-13, 2021).
And finally to win a first European coronation, set as a goal since the arrival of the Qataris at the head of the club eight years ago.
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