Handball Bundesliga: Foxes Berlin fights victory against Erlangen
Handball Bundesliga
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Foxes Berlin fight victory against Erlangen
Füchse Berlin won 30:28 at HC Erlangen and confirmed the top spot in the Handball Bundesliga with the win in Middle Franconia. In addition to national player Paul Drux, Füchse goalkeeper Dejan Milosavljev was particularly convincing.
Füchse Berlin won the Handball Bundesliga 30:28 (16:12) at HC Erlangen. This means that the team of Füchse coach Jaron Siewert remains at the top of the table with 27:3 points after the 15th matchday. In a hard-fought game, goalkeeper Dejan Milosavljev was the man of importance. He repeatedly stopped Erlangen free throws with his saves.
Lindberg secures good foxes start
In the sold-out arena in Nuremberg, Füchse right winger Hans Lindberg was in a good mood. His first three throws went straight into the goal and the Dane, together with backcourt player Lasse Andersson, gave the foxes a 4:2 lead. After that, the Berliners showed themselves to be strong in defence, but Jaron Siewert’s team made too many minor mistakes up front, so that Erlangen was able to equalize after ten minutes to make it 5:5. Led by the strong Paul Drux, Berlin then pulled away 11:8.
In this phase, ten minutes before half-time, Erlangen found it extremely difficult to push through the compact cover of the Berliners. If something did come up on the foxes case, Dejan Milosavljev defused it. But the hosts also went to work robustly in defense, which meant that the Berliners were initially unable to break away more clearly. Die Füchse took advantage of some technical errors by the hosts two minutes before the break. Jacob Holm was 16:12 ten seconds before the break siren.
Milosavljev makes the difference
In the second half, the foxes picked up where they left off. The middleman Jacob Holm keeps improving and extends the lead to six goals with a throw from the back. The game became rougher, the resulting interruptions increasing. The referees, however, remained calm. When handball was played again, Erlangen’s left wing Christopher Bissel shortened the lead to 16:20.
But the foxes didn’t let themselves be thrown off course by a few time penalties, played their attacks to the end cleverly and kept Erlangen at bay for long stretches – also because their keeper Milosavljev showed one strong save after the other. 15 minutes before the end there was a tricky phase for Berlin: Lasse Andersson undertook two bad passes in a row and Berlin coach Jaron Siewert used his first time out to swear his players to the final phase.
Erlangen comes up, Darj makes the decision
Erlangen got into the party better and better and closed up to 20:22, but on the Foxes side Jacob Holm, Paul Drux and Hans Lindberg could be relied on that day. With a twist, Holm restored the old distance. A short time later, national player Drux got out a seven-metre throw, which Lindberg converted confidently, while Füchse keeper Milosavljev was now able to save almost every ball. After 52 minutes it is 26:21 for the Berliners.
Three and a half minutes before the end, this lead dwindled to just two goals because the foxes played too carelessly on offense. But Max Darj made the decision with his goal to 29:26. 60 seconds later the away win was perfect.
Drux sees rip-off as key
“It wasn’t always pretty to look at and it was a competitive game. But in the end, our rip-off won out. We’ve worked on that over the past few years,” said Paul Drux on the Sky microphone after the end of the game.
Next Sunday (December 11, 2 p.m.) the foxes will meet SC Magdeburg, champions and fifth-placed in the Bundesliga, in a top game in the Max-Schmeling-Halle. Before that, the Berliners will meet Skanderborg Aarhus Håndbold in the Europa League on Tuesday.
Broadcast: rbb24, December 3rd, 2022, 10 p.m