The German handball team won in the semifinals of the European Championship, a game that they really should not have won. And that does not mean the person entitled to the thing, but not promising protest the Norwegians.
but the fact that the DHB selection it at 34:33 after extra time against Norway managed to defy the laws of their sport. Match Winner was a man who had come only on Monday the team.
Kai Häfner came at the very end to word to describe his emotions after the dramatic match. The man from the TSV Hannover-Burgdorf had yet to doping control, but also one hour after the end of the meeting he was still busy trying to work through his feelings. “That’s a big, big dream, everything is not real. I must first times can pinch”
said the man who had been-nominated until Monday for the injured captain Steffen Weinhold. On Sunday he had the victory of the German team over Russia still haunted by their own couch, while worn jogging pants and felt like a fan. Yesterday, he scored the winning goal five seconds before the end of extra time, his fifth overall and his. Third after regular time “I had the ball in his hand, I had to throw. That worked out luckily,” Haefner said about the last action of the game.
“Kai was incredible,” teammate Hendrik Pekeler said later. Actors who had the game of the team of Dagur Sigurdsson been marked remained pale, but were captured by Häfner and the collective.
Previous strengths did not come to fruition
In fact, the left-hander should not have been a hero, because in the game of the Germans had too much is not working. 60 minutes it seemed as feel the young team for the first time in Poland too much pressure. In attack lacked determination and courage, just Steffen Fäth and Fabian re seemed inhibited, after they had been two days earlier the crucial figures in the victory over Denmark.
Goalkeeper Andreas Wolff was also not such a factor, as in the games before, so the Germans at the score of 24:26 six minutes before the end of normal time entgegentaumelten leaving. “We have for the first time thinking about what we can achieve here,” Sigurdsson founded the hectic appearance of his team
In our own. 27: 26-lead the Norwegians had little later multiply the chance the emotional game with a hit to decide, but with a little luck, the Germans escaped into overtime. Feels like the Scandinavians should have won the match, which left the Sigurdsson protégés but not, they defended themselves now towards the end of her dream.
The language of Finn Lemke was military, but they explained how the German players thought on the field. Lemke stood in the catacombs of Tauron arena and it was to look at what it means to play in the semifinals of European Championship. “I only thought that here no longer comes to me. And when suddenly Harald Rein child standing in front of me, I knew that we have to defend our territory.”
On this Sunday (17.30 clock, live ticker SPIEGEL ONLINE, ARD), the Germans can be crowned in the final against Spain for the European champions – if not the Norwegian protest, inserted because of a faulty substitution the Germans in the final seconds, should be upheld, contrary to expectations
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