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Weakened by Corona failures: Germany fears for the EM semifinals

2022-01-22T04:27:01.758Z


Weakened by Corona failures: Germany fears for the EM semifinals Created: 01/22/2022, 04:45 am By: Patrick Mayer Contested: Germany against Norway at the European Handball Championship. © IMAGO / Kolektiff Germany has to admit defeat to the strong Norwegians at the European Handball Championship. The semi-finals are a long way off for the DHB team. The game in the ticker to read. European Han


Weakened by Corona failures: Germany fears for the EM semifinals

Created: 01/22/2022, 04:45 am

By: Patrick Mayer

Contested: Germany against Norway at the European Handball Championship.

© IMAGO / Kolektiff

Germany has to admit defeat to the strong Norwegians at the European Handball Championship.

The semi-finals are a long way off for the DHB team.

The game in the ticker to read.

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

  • Germany also loses against Norway* in Bratislava.

  • The game of the DHB team * in the ticker to read.

Germany - Norway 23:28 (12:14)

Statistics Germany:

Bitter (Tor/Hamburg), Rebmann (Tor/Göppingen) - Golla (Flensburg/4 goals), Zieker (Stuttgart/2), Köster (Gummersbach/3), Reichmann (Melsungen/2), Wiencek (Kiel/2), Weber (Magdeburg/3), Stutzke (Bergischer HC/1), Zerbe (Lemgo/2), Wiede (Berlin/2), Dahmke (Kiel), Ernst (Leipzig), Steinert (Erlangen/1), Drux (Berlin) , Schmidt (Bergischer HC/1)

Statistics Norway:

Bergerud (goal), Saeveraas (goal) - Toft (7), Sagosen (4), Barthold (4/1 penalty kicks), Björnsen (3), Reinkind (3), Överjordet (2), Solstad (2), Överby ( 1), Tonnesen (1), O'Sullivan (1)

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Update from January 21, 10:10 p.m .: Conclusion:

After the second tournament defeat within 24 hours, Germany’s handball players only have minimal chances of entering the European Championship semi-finals.

The DHB selection, weakened by eleven Corona failures, lost 23:28 (12:14) to Norway this Friday evening and no longer has progress in the main round group II with 2: 4 points in their own hands.

In front of 2026 spectators in Bratislava, captain Johannes Golla was the best scorer in the team of national coach Alfred Gislason with four goals.

On Sunday Germany meets World Cup runners-up Sweden.

Handball EM: Germany is subject to Norway and fears for the semi-finals

60 minutes: The game is over!

Germany loses to Norway.

The chances and hopes of the DHB team for the EM semi-finals are dwindling.

58 minutes: Sargosen, the Bundesliga superstar from Kiel, has struck again.

Seamless with a lot of force, just as you know it from him.

The game is over.

27:22 for the Scandinavians.

55 minutes: Bitter again with the parade.

Wiede pulls through the circle.

Four goals behind.

But that's probably too much against this world-class team.

Just five minutes.

53 minutes: What a torch!

Thorsteinsen hammers the ball from the back into the corner.

25:19 for Norway - that was probably it for the DHB team in this European Championship game.

Support in the DHB team: Johannes "Jogi" Bitter.

© Marijan Murat/dpa

Handball EM: Germany against Norway in the live ticker - DHB team is afraid and shaking

51 minutes: Berliner Wiede goes into the circle when there are too many and swings the ball in.

Four goals behind.

It has not yet been decided.

But time is getting scarce.

48 minutes: Köster throws another jump shot.

That's his ruse, that's his thing.

But there are still four goals behind for the DHB team against the favorites at the European Championship.

47th minute: And superstar Sargosen from Kiel adds another one.

Germany gives in.

It's a board now.

46 minutes: Another so-called easy goal for the Scandinavians.

Norway leads by five.

The semi-final chances of the DHB team disappear in one fell swoop.

44 minutes: It gets hotter.

Germany gets three goals and senses another chance.

But defensive chief Wiencek received a two-minute penalty.

An exciting final phase is heralded.

Is there anything else for the DHB team?

Handball EM: Germany against Norway in the live ticker – simple goals against the DHB team

40 minutes: Tönnesen from the back.

The Germans can't get it under control at all.

As if pulled by a string, the ball hits at an angle.

38 minutes: Germany can no longer get in this phase.

Norway scores easy goals.

That's very efficient.

The DHB defense can no longer grab it like it did in the first half.

35 minutes: A jump shot by Köster.

There's the 21-year-old youngster from Gummersbach again with his inimitable rowing movement.

And off for that.

34 minutes: Golla from the circle!

Then the Germans pulled apart the Norwegian defenses.

That's how it works. A narrow deficit for the DHB team.

33 minutes: Uhhhhhhhh ... that's bitter!

In this case in the truest sense of the word.

Bitter parries a throw by the Norwegians, but the ball rolls off his calf behind the line.

32 minutes: Norway swings the ball in from the back.

The Scandinavians simply have a lot of power when attacking from a position.

What chunks of handball players are.

My dear.

31st Minute: It continues with the European Championship game between Germany and Norway.

Handball EM: Germany against Norway in the live ticker – DHB team is behind at the break

30 minutes: Break in Bratislava!

Germany is two goals behind.

But circle runner Wiencek hits seconds before the half-time siren.

That was very important.

The DHB team is on the break at the favorite.

Is that exciting!

30 minutes: The outside is released again.

The Zieker from Stuttgart is again in the air and chooses the massive touchdown in the short corner.

Important!

Handball EM: Germany against Norway in the live ticker – the DHB team was taken by surprise

27 minutes: Now the Norwegians bring in their counterattack.

The next counter wriggles in the German goal.

Watch out!

24th minute: Majority game for the DHB team, and that's what national coach Gislason's team rehearsed.

Zieker flies into the circle from the left and tunnels the opposing goalie.

23 minutes: Bitter!

Bitter, always bitter!

Born in Oldenburg, he is 39 years old, but he is playing like a young handball god at this European Championship.

But Germany needs its own goals again.

21 minutes: Stutzke fails with a jump shot from the back.

But the DHB team gets the ball back.

It's brutally intense.

One notices: Two teams are applying for a possible participation in the European Championship semi-finals.

Handball EM: Germany against Norway in the live ticker - "Jogi" Bitter with outstanding quota

19 minutes: Superstar Sargosen loses possession.

But the Norwegians regained the ball furiously in retreat.

The Scandinavians take the lead for the first time.

6: 7 from the point of view of the DHB team, which has not had a goal for five and a half minutes.

Norway star: Sander Sagosen (middle) from THW Kiel, here against the defense of the DHB team.

© Marijan Murat/dpa

15 minutes: "Jogi, Jogi, Jogi!" resounds through the hall in Bratislava.

DHB keeper Bitter defuses the fifth Norwegian throw.

Five out of ten - an outstanding quota from the Hamburg goalkeeper!

14 minutes: 6:5 for the DHB team!

Steinert can answer a goal directly.

He looks very determined from the backcourt.

11 minutes: Norway cannot equalize.

Keeper Bitter with the fast and long ball to Zerbe, who scores again on the counterattack.

It goes back and forth.

What a pace in this game.

Handball EM: Germany against Norway in the live ticker – "Jogi" Bitter is very good in the game

8 minutes: Strong!

"Jogi" Bitter with his first parade.

It is insurmountable, the 2.05 meter wall from northern Germany.

Zerbe wets the counterattack.

The counterattacks are once again a powerful tool.

6 minutes: Norway also shortens from the back.

But again Köster serves a circle runner Golla.

Bouncer, and in with it.

3:1 for Germany.

4 minutes: Weber with the torch from the back.

2-0 for Germany.

That's a good start.

4th minute: Intensive start.

The Norwegians throw past the gate.

Köster serves Golla on the circle, the captain only puts the ball in with one hand throughout the action.

Simple goals, that's the way it should be.

The next attempt by the Scandinavians, on the other hand, also goes wrong.

Good start for the DHB team!

2nd minute: Germany attacks via youngster Köster.

Zieker fails from left wing at the Norwegian goalie.

1st minute: Let's start in Bratislava!

European Handball Championship: Germany vs. Norway in the live ticker – eleven DHB players in corona quarantine

Update from January 21, 8:20 p.m .:

Eleven German players are again in corona quarantine in their single rooms in the hotel tonight at the European Handball Championship.

You are truly doomed to watch when Germany meets Norway.

Backcourt shooter Kai Häfner is one of them.

“I had mild symptoms for the first day or two.

So far so good.

I'd rather be on the floor myself," he tells ZDF and demands from his colleagues in the hall, "that we manage to retreat, the Norwegians are very quick to counterattack."

With this in mind - it's about to start!

Update from January 21, 8:10 p.m .:

It wasn’t enough again.

The hopes were high that backcourt shooter Julius Kühn (MT Melsungen) could test himself before the European Championship game against Norway.

But.

The 28-year-old from Duisburg is also missing against the Scandinavians in national coach Alfred Gislason's squad.

Now the other DHB boys have to fix it.

Handball EM: Germany against Norway in the live ticker - DHB team trusts in "Jogi" Bitter

Update from January 21, 7:25 p.m.:

Can the DHB team trust their old warhorse between the posts again today?

Johannes "Jogi" Bitter (HSV Hamburg), now 39 years old, had traveled to the European Handball Championship 2022 after there had been a dozen positive corona tests in the national team.

The North German played well against Poland, and against Spain the veteran even showed a very good performance with many saves in the first half.

Since the regular keeper Andreas Wolff (KS Kielce) and Till Klimpke (HSG Wetzlar) are not yet allowed to test free today, it will again be up to the world champion of 2007.

The wall from Oldenburg is in demand against the Norwegians' powerful backcourt shooters.

Against Poland, Spain and Norway in goal of the DHB team: veteran Jogi Bitter.

© IMAGO / Sven Simon

Handball EM: Germany against Norway in the live ticker - DHB team with the chance of the semi-finals

Update from January 21, 6:50 p.m .:

For the DHB team, the Scandinavian games are coming up at the Handball European Championship 2022.

After tonight's duel with Norway, the game against Sweden follows on Sunday (6 p.m.).

After that, everyone involved will know whether Germany still has a chance of making the semi-finals, maybe already in the semi-finals - or whether the outsider's dream has ended after all the Corona whirlwind.

Handball European Championship

Intermediate round group II

Thursday, January 20, 6 p.m

Germany - Spain 23:29 (12:14)

Friday, January 21, 8:30 p.m

Germany - Norway

Sunday, January 23, 6 p.m

Germany - Sweden

Tuesday, January 25, 6 p.m

Germany - Russia

Update from January 21, 6 p.m.:

The first game in intermediate round group II was played at the European Handball Championship 2022 this Friday.

Lo and behold: Spain, which was still so dominant yesterday, trembled to a narrow victory against Russia - 26:25 (12:11) was the final score in Bratislava.

With that, the Spaniards have pushed open the much-cited door to the EM semi-finals, Russia's hopes for the semi-finals should be over.

Next up are Poland and Sweden in the Slovakian capital, before Germany meets Norway in the evening (8:30 p.m.).

Germany against Norway in the live ticker - no further positive corona tests in the DHB team

Update from January 21, 5:30 p.m .:

Relief for the DHB team before the main round game against strong Norway.

Up to three hours before the start of the game, there were no further positive tests in the Corona-stricken German national team.

The German Handball Federation (DHB) announced this Friday afternoon.

Even more: Backcourt shooter Julius Kühn (MT Melsungen) could be ready for action in time after his quarantine ended.

the result of the first of two mandatory PCR tests on Thursday was negative.

The game against Spain had shown that Germany needs more power and throwing power from the backcourt.

And that is exactly what Kühn, who was born in Duisburg, stands for.

Backroom shooter in the DHB team: Julius Kühn (left) at the European Handball Championship.

© IMAGO / Newspix

Handball EM: Germany against Norway in the live ticker - DHB team is under pressure

First report from January 21st:

Munich/Bratislava - "Don't just throw it, damn it!

We'll let ourselves be shot!” National coach Alfred Gislason was pretty clear in the main round game of the DHB team against Spain 23:29 (12:14).

No wonder: the European champion of 2018 and 2020 gave the European champion of 2016 a real lesson in efficiency and power from the backcourt at the Handball European Championships in Hungary and Slovakia*.

Suddenly it was gone, the magnificent starting position that the German national handball team had worked for after the preliminary round in the Slovakian capital Bratislava, despite numerous spontaneous corona failures and successors.

Instead of first place before matchday number two in the intermediate round, it is only fourth place for DHB captain Johannes Golla (SG Flensburg-Handewitt) and his colleagues with the eagle on their chests.

Handball EM: Germany against Norway in the live ticker - DHB team needs points

nation

games

Gates

Points

1. Spain

2

61:51

4-0

2. Norway

2

64:54

2:2

3. Sweden

2

57:55

2:2

4. Germany

2

53:52

2:2

5. Russia

2

46:51

2:2

6. Poland

2

54:72

0:4

And now comes Norway: The Scandinavians literally cleared Poland 42:31 (21:15) at the start of their main round.

It was a remarkable result.

A look at the statistics shows where the opponent's strengths lie.

The outside players Sebastian Barthold (10/3 goals) and Kristian Björnsen (8/both Aalborg Handbold) were among the best shooters.

Means: In addition to the outside positions, the counterattacks and counterattacks worked splendidly for the Norwegians.

But Bundesliga star Sander Sagosen from THW Kiel also scored nine goals from the backcourt.

In the video: Handball EM - The votes on Germany's defeat against Spain

Germany's positional attack, on the other hand, was not a factor at all against Spain.

An example: Middleman Philipp Weber (SC Magdeburg) only managed two of his eight shots in goal.

That has to get better against the northern Europeans, there's no question mark behind it.

Because: In the event of a defeat, the Germans could most likely tick off the EM semi-finals in Budapest.

Follow the European Handball Championship game between Germany and Norway this Friday evening (8.30 p.m.) here in the live ticker.

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Source: merkur

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