Handball: PSG inherits Aalborg in Champions League semi-final

Everyone will tell you: a good draw is only when you win.

So no one will say that PSG inherited the perfect draw for the Champions League semi-final which will take place on June 12 in Cologne, Germany.

PSG will face the Danes of Aalborg, the future club of Mikkel Hansen who will join his native Denmark at the end of the 2022 season.

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- EHF Champions League (@ehfcl) May 25, 2021

But in any case it looks like it.

Because of the three other guests of the Final Four, Paris had to avoid the other two: Nantes, the only French team to have beaten PSG this season in the Starligue and FC Barcelona, ​​which is the favorite of the tournament.

A surprise team on the plateau for its first participation at this level, Aalborg is what PSG needed to hope to finally win this Champions League.

“Now that we know we will face Aalborg, we have to focus on this opponent.

In Final 4, there are the four best teams in Europe so it will necessarily be a difficult match.

There will be a lot of pressure.

We still have time to prepare for this face-to-face meeting, before that, we have a title of Champions of France to go for ”reacts the Parisian coach Raul Gonzalez on the club's website.

Nantes against Barça

Its captain Luka Karabatic approves: “We will face a team which has a little less experience on this kind of meeting.

But she has players who have already experienced a Champions League semi-final.

The presence of Aalborg shows that Danish handball is progressing year after year and is approaching the level of its national team which is one of the best in the world.

They therefore also have a good chance of winning.

To get there, Aalborg took the Germans out of Flensburg in the quarter-finals while PSG left Kiel so that for once, there will be no German club invited to the table of the big four in Europe.

We will face Aalborg in the 1/2 final of the @ ehfcl!

More info to come!

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- PSG Handball (@psghand) May 25, 2021

In the other semi-final, Nantes will have a hard time facing Barcelona but the Nantes, after beating Paris in the Starligue, released the Hungarians from Veszprem in the quarter-final. Veszprem who had played in the Final Four 2020 just after last Christmas. A performance which suggests that Nantes is capable of anything. What if a PSG - Nantes final to ensure the triumph of a French club was on the program on Sunday, June 13 in Cologne in a venue that will not receive an audience?