Kuzmanovic secures Nexe's top finish in group C
There was not much at stake as four Last 16 participants were already known ahead of the last round. However, teams were fighting for their final rankings. In the most interesting game of group C, Dominik Kuzmanovic helped Nexe to beat Sporting and end the group phase in the first position, leaving their opponents in second.
Alpla Hard pulled off one of their stronger performance at the end of their European journey, and after beating Nexe, shared the spoils with Granollers, who ended third. Skjern Handbold once again beat Balatonfüredi as the Hungarians said their goodbye to the EHF European League.
I think, today we did what we had to do. We arrived in Hard, being already qualified for the Last 16 teams. Nevertheless, we wanted to get the victory. We are a very young team and we almost couldn’t win a game away from home. Today we had the chance. We had a draw with a good team, they fought very well and they played a really good game.
It was a very though game. We had to play patiently in attack and hard in defence. Sporting CP are one of the best teams in this competition. At the beginning, our goal was to go through from the group. Now, we will take it match by match.
