Still undefeated in the championship and still largely victorious this Sunday against Chartres (36-26), PSG Handball seems to have found its cruising speed. Since the enormous slap received at Veszprem (41-28) in September, the Rouge et Bleu have moved forward and want at all costs to avoid another accident. This Thursday (6:45 p.m.), the capital club intends to continue its momentum with a trip to Germany on the floor of Füchse Berlin for the sixth day of the Champions League.
By beating Plock (23-24), Fredericia (38-30), then Bucharest (35-32), Raul Gonzalez’s players turned their heads back on the European stage and even took third place in group A. Elohim Prandi and his teammates have every intention of not letting their first pursuer and adversary of the day return to a tie in the ranking. The two clubs had already had the opportunity to face each other, in the Super Globe final in 2016. The Germans then won at the very end of the match (29-28).
Authors of a good start to the season, the Berliners remained on three consecutive victories in the Champions League before falling in the final moments last week, against Sporting Portugal, current leader (33-35). The team led by former Montpellier goalkeeper Elie Ona is still aiming to qualify for the final phase.
In the event of a victory, the French champion club could reach the first two places in their group while waiting for the Veszprem meeting on the Pelister Bitola field at 8:45 p.m. The Rouge et Bleu could even seize the leadership position currently occupied by Sporting Portugal, after the Lisbon side’s defeat against Bucharest on Wednesday (33-29). As a reminder, the first two in each group will go directly to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, while the next four teams will play in the round of 16 to try to join them.
