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Szeged (dpa / lno) - The defending champion is stacked deep.
"It's a good starting position for the second leg, but I don't want to speak of" half the rent "," said backcourt player Harald Reinkind after the handball team of THW Kiel on Wednesday the first leg of the first leg in the Champions League against Hungarian representative Pick Szeged at 33 : 28 had decided for themselves.
Circle runner Patrick Wiencek also warned of the second leg next Wednesday (6.45 p.m. / DAZN): "Anything can still happen."
Nevertheless, the “zebras” have excellent prospects of reaching the quarter-finals.
One of the main reasons for the good starting position was the return of regular goalkeeper Niklas Landin.
The Danish world handball player had a total of 17 saves, fending off two seven meters, among other things.
The 32-year-old also caused a moment of shock when he hobbled off the field shortly before the end with a painful face: “In the 56th minute I landed on my heel, that hurt a bit.
Two minutes later it was actually okay again, ”Landin quickly gave the all-clear.
THW coach Filip Jicha praised his team for a "great game", but still found a small flaw: "It's a shame that we couldn't use our one hundred percent chances in the second half, otherwise we would have won even better."
The otherwise strong Sander Sagosen alone failed three times in quick succession to Szeged's goalkeeper Mirko Alilovic.
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On Saturday (8.30 p.m. / Sky) the German championship continues in the Bundesliga.
TVB Stuttgart will then be a guest in the Kiel Arena.
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