By beating the Germans from Ludwigsburg 33 to 26, the Brestoises continued their impressive flawless performance.
The Brest handball players confirmed their excellent form by collecting their fourth victory in as many days of the Champions League, in style, on Sunday in the hall of the Germans in Ludwigsburg (33-26), finalists of the last edition. All the lights are green for the BBH, coached since this season by the 2003 world champion Raphaëlle Tervel and who took advantage of this trip to gain a little more confidence and widen the gap in the ranking of the very tough group B. The Breton club (8 pts) takes advantage of the defeats of Rapid Bucharest and the Danes of Odense to be four steps ahead of third place, the first not giving direct access to the quarter-finals.
He is guaranteed to retain at least the leader’s chair in the company of Györ (6 pts and one match in hand) who he will receive next Sunday. The “Rebels” will pass a serious test against the Hungarians, reigning European champions, after having already brought down the Norwegians of Kristiansand, crowned from 2021 to 2023, and the Danes of Esbjerg, semi-finalists at the Brest Arena. spring. Sunday, carried by their German goalkeeper Katharina Filter (19 saves on 41 shots) and left back Clarisse Mairot (8 goals, 9 attempts), called up in Blue for the next rally, they largely dominated the Germans from Ludwigsburg, vice-president. reigning European champions under the name of Bietigheim.
They simply experienced a slump between the end of the first period and the start of the second: while they were quietly leading 11 to 6 in the 20th minute, they found themselves trailing by one goal (14-15). in the 33rd. They then quickly regained the upper hand by recovering, thanks to their aggressive and well-established defense, a quantity of balls to deploy behind lightning counter-attacks. Like these two consecutive goals (21-17, 43rd) from their captain Pauline Coatanea (6/8), or the one scored by their Russian star Anna Vyakhireva sealing the victory ten minutes from the end (26-19 ).
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