Crimeans said goodbye to Europe with a victory
Crimean Mercator handball players defeated German Ludwigsburg by 26:23 (10:11), but still finished the European season in a return game for qualifying for the quarterfinals of the Champions League. In the first game, the Germans won at home with 31:21 and qualified for the competition in both matches.
After a bad performance in Germany, they were aware at the Kirma camp that they have a difficult task. In the second game, they fished ten goals of minus; In the end, they failed to eliminate the differences in the sum, but in the last home game of the European season they showed up in a significantly better image and said goodbye to the victory.
They were the most in the home of the locals Ana Gros With ten goals and Tjaša Stanko with six.
Ana Gros: “A good performance on our part, we fought from the first to the last minute, we even had five goals in the second half. But ten goals were simply unattainable or very difficult to reach. Perhaps in the first half, they should have gotten some more a goal in order to parade in the second. Of course, I am happy with today’s performance, but in general it is a big disappointment. It is what it is, we are disappointed, we hope to learn something. «
The overall winner of the Slovenian-German showdown will compete with Györ in the quarterfinals. The Hungarian team has celebrated six times in the Champions League, most recently in the last season of 2023/24. Metz, Ferencvaros and Esbjerg was also directly ranked in the quarterfinals.
