Foreshadow: Veszprém – Flensburg

Veszprém Arena hosts the Match of The Week on Saturday as Telekom Veszprém hosts SG Flensurg-Handewitt in the VELUX EHF Champions League. The game kicks-off at 5:30 p.m. and it is broadcasted live by Sport1 from 5 p.m.

 

 

Clash of the Titans as Flensburg comes to Veszprém for the Match of The Week. Both teams performed nearly the same in the Group phase hence Veszprém stands at 3rd place while Flensburg stands at 4th trailing by 1 point. Our history is balanced, both teams have 3 victories over the other. To top it off in the first leg, they played a 24:24 draw in Germany. In the game in September Kentin Mahé scored 9 while Momir Ilic scored 7 goals.

 

As it was already mentioned Flensburg stands at 4th place in the Group. They played 13 games so far and has 7 wins and 5 losses. The only draw they have comes from the game against Veszprém. PSG and Barcelona defeated them back-to-back but besides these two teams only Kiel could win against them. Last time the Germans played in the CL was this Wednesday against Schaffhausen. The game resulted in a 31:26 win for Flensburg. Top scorers in the VELUX EHF Champions League are Kentin Mahé with 37, Holger Glandorf with 35 and Anders Eggert with 32 goals.

 

 

Flensburg is currently leading the German Bundesliga. The chasers are Kiel with a 3 point deficit and Löwen with a 6 point deficit. Twenty-two games were played so far and our next opponent lost only one of them. Along that defeat there is a draw and 20 victories. Last time they played was 1st of March when they travelled to Minden and managed to beat them by the huge margin of 41-17. The top scorer of Flensburg in the DKB Bundesliga is Lasse Svan who scored 111 goals in 21 games.

 

The “Építők” played a Hungarian Championship game on Tuesday against Orosháza. The score was a confident 33:20 victory. On the last Champions League game of Veszprém they played against Schaffhausen. The game ended in an exciting 28:27 win for the Hungarian part.

 

Let's go Veszprém!

 

 

Photos: Angela Grewe