Germany – Spain in the live ticker: Corona alarm!

After the DHB team, it hits the opponent

Created: 01/20/2022, 16:14

By: Patrick Mayer

Left winger in the DFB team: Rune Dahmke.

© IMAGO / Laci Perenyi

Corona without end: Germany still competes against European champions Spain at the European Handball Championship.

Follow the game of the DHB team tonight in the live ticker.

• European Handball Championship: The main round (schedule)* begins in Hungary and Slovakia.

• Germany meets European champions Spain (live stream)* in Bratislava on Thursday evening (6 p.m.).

• Follow the game of the DHB team * here in the live ticker.

Germany - Spain -:- (-:-), today, 6 p.m

Munich/Bratislava – Remember the numbers twelve and ten.

The twelve stands for the number of players from the DHB team who (so far) had a positive corona test* at the European Handball Championship 2022.

A very nice house number.

The ten stands for those professionals who Germany has already nominated against Spain before the start of the main round in Bratislava.

A very nice board, one would like to say in the best sports jargon.

The German national team was pretty shaken up before the game against the highly regarded European champions.

But even the reigning titleholder was not spared the real corona wave at the tournament in Hungary and Slovakia.

A few hours before the start of the intermediate round, the Spaniards also reported two positive tests for the insidious corona virus *.

Handball EM: Germany against Spain in the live ticker – Corona alarm for both teams

The former Bundesliga professional Joan Cañellas (35 years old/formerly HSV Hamburg, THW Kiel) and backcourt player Ian Tarrafeta (23 years old/PAUC Handball) will be absent tonight.

Cañellas, who now earns his money with the Kadetten Schaffhausen in Switzerland, is considered a particularly experienced player.

Despite all of this, Spain should be the favorite for this game, especially given the starting position for the DHB team.

In the preliminary round, the European champions from 2018 and 2020 confidently prevailed as group winners.

A 28:26 (14:11) against the Czech Republic was followed by a 32:28 (17:14) against the very good Swedes and a 28:24 (12:14) against Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In the video: Corona worries in the DHB team - confusion of emotions before Spain cracker

Meanwhile, Germany, also as group winners, takes two points with them into the classification of the second round.

In this, every game counts, after all only the first two of the two groups of six qualify for the European Championship semi-finals in Budapest.

Follow the game of the DHB team at the European Handball Championship 2022 against Spain on Thursday evening (6 p.m.) here in the live ticker.

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