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Kiel (dpa / lno) - Filip Jicha was by no means satisfied.
"I had to be very critical of my team in some phases today," said the THW Kiel coach after his Bundesliga handball players had won their home game on Easter Saturday against TVB Stuttgart with 33:28.
What was planned as a routine victory turned out to be an extremely difficult task.
Jicha: "We had to throw everything in, invest everything in order to get two points against strong Stuttgart."
The weakened Swabians, who were missing national goalkeeper Johannes Bitter who had operated on the knee and who had two 17-year-olds in their squad in circle runner Fynn-Luca Nicolaus and goalkeeper Joshua Scheiner, acted cleverly and persistently.
In the attack, the TVB used its opportunities, in defense it made life difficult for the Kielers.
"We were initially too passive, after 15 minutes we got it under control," said Stuttgart coach Jürgen Schweikardt after the game.
Jicha criticized the offensive behavior of his protégés: "We didn't make the decisions in the attack as consistently as I had wished."
With a 4-0 run from 29:27 to 33:27, the "Zebras" then sealed their twelfth victory in the twelfth Bundesliga game against Stuttgart.
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On Wednesday (6.45 p.m. / DAZN) the German record champion welcomes the Hungarian runner-up Pick Szeged to the second leg of the second leg in the Champions League.
After 33:28 from the first leg, the chances of a quarter-final for the defending champion from Kiel are very good.
In the Bundesliga, the away game against TSV Hannover-Burgdorf will continue next Saturday (8.30 p.m. / Sky).
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