Handball: Füchse Berlin must bury their cup dream | EUROtoday

The Füchse Berlin surprisingly failed within the spherical of 16 of the DHB Cup towards the Rhein-Neckar Löwen. The Berliners misplaced in Heidelberg with 29:30 (16:12). The Foxes had beforehand received their final eight aggressive video games towards the Lions. The quarter-finals will happen on the 18th/nineteenth. December, with out the workforce from the capital. The finest Berlin thrower was Tim Freihöfer with eight targets, whereas for the Lions it was Ivan Martinovic with ten targets.

The company from the capital took the lead within the recreation from the beginning. But in distinction to the final duel two and a half weeks in the past, when the Foxes received by a transparent 34:27, the Lions had been a lot better defensively. The Foxes made a couple of missed throws. Lasse Andersson specifically failed a number of instances towards the sturdy Lions keeper Mikael Appelgren.

The determination is simply made with the ultimate siren

In the seventeenth minute, nationwide participant Juri Knorr celebrated his long-awaited comeback after an harm break for the Lions. But after recovering from a damaged thumb, the 24-year-old was initially unable to revive his workforce’s recreation. As a end result, the lions made a couple of unhealthy throws that punished the foxes. With a 6:1 run earlier than the break, the Berliners pulled forward for the primary time (16:10).

But after the break, all of a sudden nothing labored for the Foxes and the workforce fully misplaced observe. Slight ball losses and some missed throws introduced the hosts again into the sport. The Lions had been additionally fortunate that the referee duo allowed the hosts to be very harsh and didn’t punish a few of the Lions’ fouls.

In the forty second minute, the Lions turned the sport round and took the lead for the primary time (22:21). Now it stayed tight till the top. The determination was solely made with the ultimate siren when Andersson missed the final throw.