Horror series ends with sensation
Halle is silent, then the title candidate Hannover disassembled
Halle is silent, then the title candidate Hannover disassembled
04/06/2025, 6:37 p.m.
Instead of recapturing the lead in the handball Bundesliga, title candidate Hannover sensationally misses at home. The guest has to digest an injury shock.
The risk of stumbling in the title race: TSV Hannover-Burgdorf also left valuable points on Sunday and thus missed the jump to the top of the table of the handball Bundesliga. The Lower Saxony lost fresh on Göppingen with 30:36 (15:18), and on Saturday the Foxes Berlin had already blessed with a draw at the penultimate HC Erlangen.
In front of 9900 spectators, Hannover struggled in his own hall from the start, and it was clearer for the first time shortly before the break. Marius Steinhauser towered over with 16 goals, but his team got the very balanced Göppingen offensive but never under control. Steinhauser also rejected three seven meters.
The game for Hanover finally went down after a dramatic scene, especially for the guests: after a duel, Göppingen’s director Ludvig Hallbäck was apparently injured after 40 minutes, the Swede’s elbow was visible in an unnatural position when the 24-year-old was apparently shocked by the place of collapse. Accompanied by the horned supervisors, Hallbäck immediately disappeared into the catacombs of the ZAG-Arena.
Horror series ends
The spectators were also difficult to take away from the scene, the hall fell completely for long moments, and only gradually the fans of the home side took up support for their team. At that time, the Lower Saxony were back with two goals, but the gap quickly grew to five goals. Hanover no longer recovered.
A horror series ended with the sensation: recently the Swabians won an away game in the Bundesliga in October 2023.
Berlin now remains the first (40:10 points), however, the big winner of the match day is the MT Melsungen: Due to the victory at SG BBM Bietigheim on Saturday, the Hesse are tied with the foxes, the place in the sun was waving again – Melsungen had already held it until the beginning of March. Hannover (39:11) remains after the defeat of third parties, the title race is still tight.
After the clear defeat at TBV Lemgo (29:34), the SG Flensburg-Handewitt had the next disappointment, against THSV Eisenach the North Germans did not get beyond a 39:39 (21:18). Flensburg (34:16) has a considerable deficit to the top as fifth, and SC Magdeburg (31:11) came closer on Sunday: The Double winner won a 31:30 (13:14) at DHfK Leipzig.
