HSV Hamburg Sunday at the report champions THW Kiel: only a single can rejoice

With a great 90 kilometers, the shortest absent trip awaits the HSV handball players on Whitsunday – North Derby at the document champions THW Kiel (2 p.m., Sky).

“They need to have details for the Champions League, they will burn off,” suspects HSV coach Torsten Jansen (45), who wore the zebra jersey himself in the 2015/2016 period.

If the duel was the struggle of the alpha animals in the league all around 10 many years back, the indicators are completely various now. Not only simply because Hamburg’s ex-playmaker Domagoj Duvnjak (34) has been THW captain for years…

The dethroned winner and budget huge Kiel (around 10 million euros) is battling for 2nd place, and for this (and the Champions League final4) has reactivated the Norwegian Bjarte Myrhol (40) as a substitute for the hurt Hendrik Pekeler (30). . HSV Hamburg (4 million euros) as a promoted team only had the intention of remaining in the league!

“A complicated process. Each of us has to perform at the limit, items should not go also very well for Kiel,” says Jansen, who did the A license in 2019 in Kamen-Kaiserau with the Kiel coaching duo Filia Jicha (40) and Christian Sprenger (39).

Regardless of what the result, a hamburger really should certainly pop the cork. Circle player Manuel Späth (36), who ends his profession just after the period and moves back to his hometown of Esslingen, celebrates his 500th Bundesliga match. Only 13 gurus have managed that so much (No. 1 is goalkeeper Carsten Lichtlein with 705 appearances, Jogi Bitter has done 591 online games).

HSV captain Niklas Weller (29), who performed for THW in the A youth crew for two several years and grew up on the coastline, is searching ahead to the 10,250 spectators: “Playing in Kiel is an complete expertise that many of us look forward to could not have imagined a couple of yrs ago.”

It is however unclear who can play for HSV. Leif Tissier (shoulder) and Azat Valiullin (hand) are certainly missing. Having said that, the schooling group is not nonetheless comprehensive. The four-working day Mallorca journey right after relegation was optimistic for the mood, but – as BILD learned – also brought beneficial corona tests…