Handball: Thüringer HC loses thriller at TuS Metzingen | EUROtoday
The handball gamers of the Thuringian HC suffered their second away defeat of this Bundesliga season. Coach Herbert Müller's staff misplaced 33:35 (16:17) to reigning DHB Cup winners TuS Metzingen on Tuesday night in entrance of two,000 spectators. With eleven targets, Johanna Reichert turned the THC's finest thrower, which had final misplaced away within the league on September 16, 2023. Despite the setback, the Thuringians are nonetheless in fourth place with 33:11 factors, which might assure participation within the European League.
The recreation towards the sixth-placed staff began nearly half-hour late as a result of the company have been caught in a site visitors jam once they arrived. However, the Thuringians didn’t discover the brief preparation time. They began confidently and initially used each alternative to counterattack at excessive velocity. Metzingen accepted the open alternate of blows and was capable of depend on his dynamic proper aspect. This resulted in a recreation of equals by which neither staff was capable of acquire any vital benefit. In the center of the primary half, the hosts adjusted higher to THC's fast-paced recreation, however the company saved up as a result of they saved discovering Josefine Hanfland within the circle of their positional assault.
After the break, Metzingen pulled forward to 21:17 (thirty sixth minute), however the Thuringians countered with three targets inside a minute. The attacking traces continued to dominate. The hosts acted a little bit extra variably, whereas Reichert emerged because the excellent participant at THC. After solely two targets within the first half, the Austrian was now unstoppable one-on-one and gave the company the lead for the primary time within the second half together with her aim to make it 29:28 (fiftieth).
In the ultimate section, nonetheless, the Thuringians incurred too many time penalties. Sonja Frey managed to equalize once more two minutes earlier than the top to make it 33:33, however Metzingen had extra bother and earned their fourth dwelling win in a row.
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The handball gamers of the Thuringian HC suffered their second away defeat of this Bundesliga season. Coach Herbert Müller's staff misplaced 33:35 (16:17) to reigning DHB Cup winners TuS Metzingen on Tuesday night in entrance of two,000 spectators. With eleven targets, Johanna Reichert turned the THC's finest thrower, which had final misplaced away within the league on September 16, 2023. Despite the setback, the Thuringians are nonetheless in fourth place with 33:11 factors, which might assure participation within the European League.
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