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Champions League: the great public challenge of PSG against Kiel

2021-05-22T05:01:57.077Z


Beaten in the first leg of the quarter-finals in Kiel among the reigning European champions (31-29), the handball players of PSG must win this


If there must be only one left, it is this one: the PSG hand, the last team of the French sport, with Nantes, still in the race in the competition to be able to win a Champions League.

This Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. (live on BeIN Sport), Paris is playing its quarter-final return against the Germans in Kiel.

The meeting is essential.

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The task is simple on paper: recover the two goals conceded in the defeat last week across the Rhine (31-29).

If PSG win with three goals, regardless of the score, they will play the Final Four once again on June 12 and 13 in Cologne, Germany.

If they can only win with two goals, Kiel will have to stay within 29 goals, otherwise too bad.

“If we don't qualify,” left winger Dylan Nahi immediately noted, “our season will end there and we don't want it.

So I think we're talking about the most important game of this season here.

We know it's going to be a close, complicated, indecisive fight but we play handball for days like this.

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Above all, don't doubt and let Kiel get ahead

On the ground, the challenge is immense. Opposite, it is the reigning European champion team that points its nose. Beating Kiel is not easy. To inflict a defeat with a 3-goal margin is very complicated. But above all not impossible: “If we want to qualify and we believe in it, adds Luc Steins the center-half, we must play like last week by correcting the small details which allowed Kiel to win. We know what we have to do: play 110% of our possibilities from start to finish without giving Kiel a single chance to take off. Doubt in a duel like this is the worst thing to consider.

Like footballers with Bayern and footballers with Lyon, handball players challenge in the quarterfinals what is best on the continental scene. At this point for the footballers, everything had gone well. Dylan Nahi's partners just have to follow their own path to reach the semi-final in turn and hope to finally win the Grail.

To make the difficulty a little more difficult, PSG will find in front of them an old acquaintance, the Norwegian Sander Sagosen who is not far from being the best player in the world. Absent last week due to a knee infection, the former Parisian announces his return and not just to kiss his friends: "I wait all year to find my Parisian friends, launches the half-center Norwegian. I still have contact with some. But that doesn't count this Wednesday. It's a big duel and only the winner will go to Cologne: that alone shows the importance of the match. No feeling then: the moment is too important. This Franco-German duel alone determines whether the PSG season is a success or not: “We know Sander and his qualities, resumes Dylan Nahi, but we are not going to focus on him.That would be a bad idea: Kiel is full enough that danger comes from everywhere. "

In its wallet, however, Paris has an asset: its audience which after months is back this Wednesday in Coubertin. Not yet the large crowd but 800 supporters, subscribers, partners, relatives of the players will push them. It can help in a match and a qualification which risk to be played to the goal: “Obviously, say in heart Luc Steins and Dylan Nahi, we are happy to find part of our public. This gives us additional motivation to impose ourselves to please him. But it is not he who will play on the field: it is us and us alone. It's up to us to qualify. We have played a lot of games for months but this one probably counts more than all the others. "

Source: leparis

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