The Handball Champions League is sometimes unfortunate in that it regularly, and sometimes too often, gives us the same posters from one year to the next. Planet hand is a small world. It’s nice to see a new opponent for PSG from time to time. Engaged since the 2013-2014 season, Paris is playing its 12th European campaign in a row and, never before, has the capital club met Fredericia, this team from a country where handball is king: Denmark.
Now it’s done: the team from this town located on the banks of the Baltic has come to Coubertin. And contrary to what we thought, she gave the French champions a bit of a hard time. Without a player really referenced on the international scene, the Danish vice-champions played their luck bravely. Before the break, they came back to within a goal (13-12, 23rd) before PSG pressed a little hard on the mushroom to take 3 steps ahead (18-15, 30th).
Under the eyes of Nikola Karabatic, a retired player who is always attentive, the gap remained stable after returning from the locker room. And then, faced with 9 goals from Elohim Prandi, 8 goals from Kamil Syprzak and a very good Andreas Palicka in his cage, the Danes ended up letting go.
The gap increased, little by little, to reach 8 lengths at the end of the game. PSG ended up winning 38-30 and remains well placed in second place in the provisional ranking of Group A of the Champions League behind Veszprem. Above all, as the matches and the weeks go by, this PSG gains strength. This bodes well.
