2023-11-15 23:10:54
PSG Handball fell this Wednesday in Trondheim, in the north of Norway where the French women’s team should play the second phase of the World Championship in early December. He was subjected to the law of a little-known Norwegian team but one that will have to be counted on. After a good first half, PSG drank the broth in the second period, even losing quite heavily (36-31). Paris will not keep good memories of this first face-to-face with Kolstad.
Already a scorer for Kiel and for the first time in its history in a sold-out match, Kolstad suddenly became a serious contender for the quarter-finals of this Champions League, or even a place in the Final Four.
In the race for the first two places in Group A, synonymous with going straight to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, this is the kind of match that PSG must win. Easier to write than to put into practice: Kolstad wants to make a name for himself on the European scene. Ambitious, this still little-known club wants to be European champion in the next four or five years. The recruitment of national star Sander Sagosen last summer, after 3 years at PSG (2017-2020) and three others at Kiel, symbolizes this ambition.
Paris started the game very well, dominating the first period to return to the locker room with a two-goal lead (16-14). And then, without really understanding why when hot, the machine went completely wrong. Paris lost its handball, stumbled against the Norwegian defense, suddenly stammering its game. Paris conceded 22 goals in the last 30 minutes. Too much.
The last quarter of an hour was even quite nightmarish for Luka Karabatic’s partners who did not find the solution and only scored 5 goals during this period of time. This defeat, unexpected, is necessarily unfortunate. At the end of this 7th day of the group phase, which ends this Thursday with a Kiel-Aalborg shock, PSG should no longer appear among the first two in the provisional ranking.
Nothing prohibitive: this Champions League is quite interminable and the Parisians have the opportunity to recover. Why not next week against… Kolstad, visiting Paris on November 22 (8:45 p.m.). The problem is that PSG will then travel to Kiel then Aalborg. We will have to win one of these two matches to make up for the points lost in this bad Norwegian moment.
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