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Handball
Wien-Margareten’s surprise did not materialize. On Tuesday night, the Fivers could only keep up with the clearly favored Füchse Berlin in the first leg of the European Handball League (EHL) first leg for one half, losing with 27:35 (15:17) and they left with no real chance of being promoted to the return leg in Berlin next Tuesday.
In the quarterfinals, the winner of the duel between Montpellier and Kadetten Schaffhausen awaits. The Swiss with Austrians Sebastian Frimmel, Lukas Herburger and Kristian Pilipovic tied at 27:27 in France on Tuesday.
Without their injured shooting star and future Lemgo legionnaire Lukas Hutecek (broken finger on throwing hand), the Viennese proved competitive for at least 30 minutes in their empty house.
No chance after a closed first half
In the first intensive part they faced the physically superior foxes, who had to face three regular players with Paul Drux, Jacob Holm and Hans Lindberg, with a lot of enthusiasm and dynamism and sold their fur at high prices. Although the Füchse walked away to 7: 4 in the seventh minute, supported by a strong goalkeeper Wolfgang Filzwieser, the Fivers soon came back and managed to draw twice before the break (11:11 and 15:15).
After the break, however, the fifth class prevailed in the German Bundesliga. Up front, the Fivers barely found a step or missed goalkeeper Dejan Milosavljev, in the back one took hit after hit. While the confused and agitated Viennese only scored three goals in the first quarter hour of the second half, Füchse pulled away at 31:18 and had the match clearly under control. After all, the home team managed to push the deficit into the single-digit range in the end.
“If we push the pace all the time, we make mistakes too,” Fivers coach Peter Eckl summed up in an interview with ORF. “And if they happen more frequently, then it takes maturity to slow down. We did not quite succeed. In the end it was seen that we can fight back so that the result is bearable. We still have to learn that we have to be smart and not have to smash everything in one game. “
