January 18, 2016
Andreas Wolff makes at 27:26 (13:17) victory against Sweden the Difference. Photo: AFP
The German national handball team wins their second European Championship group match against Sweden – thanks to goalkeeper Andreas Wolff and a large increase in performance in the second half. Thus, the dream lives on the semi-finals on.
After the final whistle, there was no stopping them. All who wore the jersey with the eagle on the chest, ran onto the floor of the Breslau Jahrhunderthalle. Mittendrin an overjoyed Andreas Wolff. The HSG Wetzlar The goalkeeper makes at 27:26 (13:17) victory against Sweden the difference. “What he did today was just great,” him his teammate Hendrik Pekeler praised after a game in which the German team a half-time looked like a sure loser. “We have converted aggressively cover in the second half, so that the Swedes are not at all clear came,” an overjoyed Wolff said after the best international game in his young career.
The first victory in the second EM game lives on for the German team, the dream of the semifinals. In the final group game on Wednesday evening (17.15 / ZDF) against Slovenia now reaches a point to qualify for the incipient on Friday Main Round. From the level of performance of the World Cup Be the German players were yesterday put an image itself. They watched the last few minutes of the Slovenes against Spain in the warm-up area of the Jahrhunderthalle. At this time, were still less than five minutes to play. The team of Veselin Vujovic was two goals ahead. At the end of the Iberians won one more flattering 24:24 and thus the decisive point for the collection in the next round.
The game against Sweden was initially anything but the expected duel Sigurdsson at eye level. The German team ran after the music and thus the opponents from the first minute. The Scandinavians were presented with their strong 6-0-cover and its world-class keeper Mattias Andersson stable in defense, from the backcourt sat principally engaged in the Flensburg Johann Jacobsson (8 goals), the German number one face insoluble problems. Carsten Lichtlein flew the balls just so around the ears. As opener against Spain (29:32) was 35-year-old veteran not the hoped-for support. From nine balls he parried just one. After ten minutes he cleared the space under the crossbar for his backup Andreas Wolff. An important Personnel. Wolff kept the team with some parades in the game. Just as right winger Tobias Reichmann (9/6), which had remained almost flawlessly in the first 30 minutes of the seven-meter line.
goes where it hurts: the German backcourt players Fabian restart. Photo: AFP
Until 10:10 (18th), the selection of the German Handball Federation (DHB) fought zoom. That was all the more remarkable, because her first little to nothing succeeded in playmaking. Backcourt Gunner Christian Dissinger (1) flopped in the first round, which is already against Spain not convincing captain Steffen Weinhold seemed at first as we overwhelmed Steffen Fäth (“We just could not get in scoring position”) on the playmaker position. That was of course not gone unnoticed by Sigurdsson. He moved through diligently. Time, Niclas Pieczkowski tried under construction, sometimes re Fabian gave the playmaker. Line but they did not bring into play the German team. And because the German defense of the Swedish force had opposed afflict from the backcourt with neither the 6-0- even with the 5-1-cover nothing, the Germans were at halftime with four goals (13:17) behind.
handball thanks 27:26 against Sweden before EM Main Round
The DHB team celebrated its first victory at the European Championships. Photo: Maciej Kulczynski
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At this time, spoke little to nothing for a comeback of the men in white. If the team of Sigurdsson, however, can not be denied, it is, however, her irrepressible will. This young German team with their 14-EM-comers never gives up. They fought their way back into the game after the break. But the decisive factor was the change to the offensive-cover 4-2. Sigurdsson spontaneous input surprised the Swedes. “This coverage we have not previously played a single time, not even in training,” revealed Pekeler. Keeper Wolff unnerved the Swedish shooter with superb reflexes. The game tipped, partly because Weinhold preceded suddenly. After only six minutes in the second round tie (18:18) was prepared, after 45 minutes, the projection for the first time in four goals (24:20) had grown.
In the last five minutes, a real thriller developed. Dissinger looked after his application against Jakobsson Red (56), the projection melted together at 27:26. Finn Lemke had one minute to make a counter-attack on the decision to go. The Magdeburg ballerte the ball but completely free on the Gate of Sweden. The nerves were playing tricks on him. An evil faux pas, which should however be without consequences. The German team had its first stress test passed in this EM
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