15 games, 15 wins - 30: 0 points: SC Magdeburg rushes inexorably towards its first championship title since 2001 in the handball Bundesliga.
The first German Champions League winner prevailed at Bergischer HC with 27:24 (14:13) and thus secured the autumn championship early.
The first pursuer is the THW Kiel - although the word "pursuer" sounds almost exaggerated given the six negative points that the defending champion has more to do with. Magdeburg is currently unstoppable, the first German Champions League winner works like Swiss clockwork. In all competitions, coach Bennet Wiegert's team has been unbeaten for 27 games.
But Wiegert remained true to his line even after league victory number 15. Instead of indulging in superlatives, the 39-year-old meticulously analyzed the game in Düsseldorf. Wiegert complained about "technical errors", "freely discarded balls" and goals against counterattacks. In the second round, his team then "managed to provide good cover, to get a better intensity in our own attacking game and finally to draw two minutes at the opponent". In the end, the game was "played relatively safely by us, although certainly not outstanding".
Not outstanding, but extremely efficient: This is exactly where the current strengths of SCM lie.
There was only one victory this season with more than five goals, in seven games the lead was three or fewer goals like on Saturday.
In crunchtime, those minutes when it comes down to it in the final phase, the Magdeburg team are always wide awake and impress with their mental strength and their variability in the team.
Against the BHC it was national player Philipp Weber who turned up after the short break in the second section, got the coals out of the fire with five hits and played a major role in the victory.
The playmaker and his team are still challenged twice before the EM break: On Thursday, the SCM receives HSV Hamburg, on Boxing Day it goes to the first half of the season at SG Flensburg-Handewitt.