The TSV Hannover-Burgdorf remains in the Handball Bundesliga as the only team this season without loss of points. Hannover won against SG Flensburg-Handewitt 23:22 (11:11) and now leads the table with four points ahead of the Rhein-Neckar Löwen (26:31 in Melsungen) and SC DHfK Leipzig after their seventh victory in the seventh game (35:22 against the Bergisch HC).
"It's just awesome and just fun," said Hannover international Fabian Böhm, who was the top scorer of his team with five goals, followed by the TV channel Sky: "Every critic has said that it must finally meet real opponents on us. Now we have beaten a really big opponent with Flensburg and this win shows that we are not just a surprise team. "
Apparently reassuring advantage
Hannover was almost always behind. Flensburg forced the opponent with an aggressive defense to many failures and had despite a well-sorted 6: 0-coverage of the Hanoverian by a towering Göran Johannessen (6 goals) the better arguments. In the Flensburger Tor, Torbjörn Bergerud was also in top form at times, so that the champions had a seemingly reassuring four-goal lead at the 21:17 in the 50th minute.
After that, however, the thread broke in the Flensburg game. Seven goalless minutes brought the hosts back, and 92 seconds before the end of the previously unremarkable Mait Patrail from the back room scored the 23:22. Hannovers goalkeeper Urban Lesnjak saved the victory with the final siren as he parried a direct free throw by Flensburg.
