Aalborg Håndbold 🆚 Sc Magdeburg Handball Highlights EHF Champions League 2024

Aalborg Håndbold 🆚 Sc Magdeburg Handball Highlights EHF Champions League 2024
Aalborg Håndbold (DEN) vs SC Magdeburg (GER) 33:33 (17:13)
Both sides had to replace some key players (Niklas Landin, Henrik Møllgaard, Buster Juul, and Thomas Arnoldsen at Aalborg; Philipp Weber, Tim Hornke, and Felix Claar at Magdeburg), but the host coped much better with this situation in the first half. Being constantly ahead, they grabbed their chance to pull ahead with a 4:0 run for the half-time score of 17:13. With Lukas Nilsson on fire, the Danish champions extended the gap to 23:18. But led by Icelandic duo Ómar Ingi Magnusson and Gisli Kristjansson, who combined for 13 goals in total, the 2023 champions paved their way back into the match. Eight minutes before the end, the score line was 29:29 in the match full of two-minute suspensions on both sides. The hosts took the lead four more times, but Magdeburg equalised each time. Mads Hoxer missed the last chance for the hosts, as Nikola Portner saved his shot on the final buzzer. SCM line player Magnus Saugstrup (born in Aalborg and playing for his home club until 2022) finished the match wearing a turban after suffering a cut to his eye. In the end, head coaches Maik Machulla and Bennet Wiegert - who were teammates playing for Magdeburg in the past - shared the points.
First of all, I am disappointed at the moment. Because in my opinion we had the game under control for 50 minutes and then in the end it was not that easy to keep the aggressiveness and the power to stop the one-against-one situations against Magdeburg. But how we played in the attack makes me really proud.
Maik Machulla
Head coach, Aalborg Håndbold
We can probably live with the point better than Aalborg do after this first half. But in the end we are happy with the point. My team showed great morale to make up for this deficit. We will see what good this point will do.
Bennet Wiegert
Head coach, SC Magdeburg
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