The handball Champions League is sometimes unfortunate because it regularly, sometimes too often, presents us with the same posters from one year to the next. Planet Hand is a small world. It’s nice to see a new opponent for PSG every now and then. Involved since the 2013-2014 season, Paris is playing its 12th consecutive European season and, never before, the capital club has met Fredericia, a team from a country where handball is king: Denmark.
Now it’s done: the team from this town located on the shores of the Baltic has arrived in Coubertin. And contrary to what was thought, he gave the French champions a bit of a hard time. Without a truly reference player on the international scene, the Danish runners-up bravely played their luck. Before the break they brought themselves back within goal range (13-12, 23rd) before PSG pressed a little hard on the mushroom to take 3 steps forward (18-15, 30th).
Under the eyes of Nikola Karabatic, always attentive, the gap remained stable upon returning from the locker room. And then, faced with 9 goals from Elohim Prandi, 8 goals from Kamil Syprzak and a very good Andreas Palicka in the cage, the Danes ended up giving up.
The gap increased, little by little, until it reached 8 points at the end of the match. PSG won 38-30 and remain well placed in second place in the provisional Champions League Group A standings behind Veszprem. Above all, as the matches and weeks pass, this PSG gains strength. This gives us hope.
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