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The Fivers Margareten handball players achieved their first win in the European League group stage in their third game on Tuesday.
In the home game against Fenix Toulouse, the Viennese won 37:32 (17:15) and after three out of ten games they can still wait for promotion to the knockout phase.
Towards the end of a consistently balanced first half, coach Peter Eckl’s squad fell away by two goals for the first time and failed to take the lead with an even stronger second half. Lukas Hutecek (5 hits) and company kept their nerves and had made the preliminary decision no later than 30:26 in the 49th minute. The Fivers’ top scorers, returning to the European Cup for the first time in ten years , were Eric Damböck and Tobias Wagner with 6 goals each.
“We also forced luck today,” said a sober Eckl at ORF, happy for the first win. The learning effect after a clear defeat at 23:32 at Wisla Plock (POL) and around 30:32 against Chekhowskie Medwedi (RUS) could already be felt. “Such victories are remembered for a long time,” said experienced Markus Kolar. And Marin Martinovic spoke of one of the “perhaps greatest successes in the history of the club.”
The Five will have the next opportunity to write this next Tuesday. However, the difficult journey to Metalurg Skopje is waiting there. For the Viennese there are still seven games left in the group of six, the first four reaching the second round. The group stage will be played until the beginning of March.
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