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Flensburg and PSG pass Veszprem in a very close ranking
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Offical EHF site said, with the last matches before the winter and EHF EURO 2016 break, the lead again changed in Group A of the VEKLUX EHF Champions League. After Veszprem stepped on top last week by beating Paris, PSG and Flensburg passed the Hungarian side after Round 10 thanks to their wins.
THW Kiel are back on track after three matches without a victory. Match winner for the three times Champions league winners against Veszprem was Dominik Klein, who scored the winning strike some seconds before the end in his comeback match, after a more than eight month injury break.
Match of the Week: THW Kiel (GER) vs MVM Veszprem 25:24 (11:12)
Surreal scenes of the home team mobbing Dominik Klein after the left wing scored a last-gasp winner, came as fitting reward for THW Kiel’s valiant comeback which earned them a dramatic win over MVM Veszprem.
Missing suspended playmaker Domagoj Duvnjak, Kiel trailed for most of the rip-roaring contest but prevailed in a tense finish.
The result also ended Kiel’s three-game winless streak and put them back in the frame for a first place finish in the group which means a by into the quarter-finals of Europe’s elite club competition.
With Croatian goalkeeper Mirko Alilovic pulling off a series of superb saves for Veszprem, the visitors conjured an 11:7 lead thanks to Laszlo Nagy, Gasper Marguc and Kiel’s former stalwart Aron Palmarsson.
A fast-paced start saw Kiel turn a 2:0 defeat into a 5:3 lead but they were on the back foot from there on until the closing stages of the first half, when they managed to slash the deficit.
Right back Christian Dissinger, a surprise starter, produced a mature performance for Kiel and was a constant threat with his lethal shooting from the nine-metre line.