EHF Champions League
Kiel easily win first MOTW of the season
With a demonstration of power, THW Kiel started their next “Mission Cologne” in the Machineseeker EHF Champions League. Beating Elverum Handball in the first MOTW of the season meant a perfect start for Kiel and an expected result for the Norwegian champions.
On Kiel’s side, Norwegian international Harald Reinkind was the top scorer with six goals and was awarded Player of the Match. Elverum have now lost all three matches against Kiel and still have never taken a point against a German team.
To be honest, we had a lot of respect for Elverum because of last season, even though we knew they had six new players to integrate. That's why I'm satisfied with our first game and with the way we played in defence. We were brave and consistent. In the second half, Niklas saved a few more shots. We have to stay focused and keep working on ourselves because the next task is already waiting for us on Sunday.
We played with six new players today in a world-class team. Some of them had the experience from last year when we were able to make the games closer. We scored exactly the same number of times in both halves today, but still the first half was better from us. In the second half, we conceded too many goals on the counterattack. I am happy with the step we took, but disappointed with the result.
