DHfK Leipzig wins Bundesliga home match against THW Kiel

The handball players of SC DHfK Leipzig have won a Bundesliga home match against THW Kiel for the first time since May 17, 2017. Coach Runar Sigtryggsson's team narrowly defeated the record champions 35:34 (16:15) on Saturday afternoon after an inspiring performance in front of 5309 spectators. In SC DHfK's third win of the season, Viggo Kristjansson was the best scorer with nine goals. With 7:11 points, the Leipzig team moved up to tenth place in the standings. "It was a fighting game. We believed in ourselves and committed significantly fewer technical errors than last time. With a fantastic hall in the back can then succeed something like that," said captain Lukas Binder in the MDR.

Both teams had great difficulty finding into the game. After seven disjointed minutes with many mistakes on both sides, the score was 2:2. While the Kielers also produced careless ball losses in the position attack and only reliably came to goals via the fast center, the Leipzigers showed the more variable game system. Franz Semper gave the hosts a two-goal lead for the first time at 11:9 (22nd). However, SC DHfK failed to pull away even further during this phase. Repeatedly the Leipziger failed at THW goalkeeper Tomas Mrkva, which succeeded alone in the first half eleven Paraden.

After the break speed and quality of the play clearly increased. The Kieler acted far more precisely and pressure-full than still in the first passage, but the Leipziger kept pace and got besides a push by the substituted goalkeeper Domenico Ebner. The hosts turned a 23:24 deficit (45th) into a 26:24 lead (49th) with three goals in a row. In the furious final phase, Leipzig kept their lead constant at two to three goals for a long time, also because the powerful attacker Matej Klima was now running hot. It was not until one minute before the end that the Kielers reduced the lead to 34:35. On the other side, Andri Runarsson and Moritz Preuss missed the preliminary decision, so that the guests had another chance to equalize. However, the Leipzigers did not allow any more conclusion and won deservedly.