After a confident performance against RK Nexe Nasice, the Rhein-Neckar Löwen are in the quarter-finals of the Handball European League.
The Rhein-Neckar Lions have reached the quarter-finals of the European League. The handball Bundesliga team won its play-off second leg against RK Nexe Nasice from Croatia with 31:29 (16:16) on Tuesday. The cup winners had already won the first leg a week ago with 24:19. In the quarter-finals, the North Baden team will now face Sporting Lisbon on April 23rd and 30th. The Final Four tournament will take place on the 25th/26th. May in Hamburg.
In front of 2,974 spectators in the Heidelberg SNP Dome, Jannik Kohlbacher was the top scorer with eight goals for coach Sebastian Hinze’s team, which initially controlled the encounter in the first half and then saved the 16:16 at the break with two goals shortly before the break. The match remained open until the middle of the second half, but then substitute goalkeeper Joel Birlehm saved two seven-meter throws and the Lions kept finding solutions in the attack through Jannik Kohlbacher until the score was 26:22 (49th).
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