EHF Champions League
FTC finally break winless streak; Rapid seal crucial win
In one of the highest-scoring games of the season, FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria secured their maiden win after six rounds, breaking Ikast Handbold’s five-game winning run, with an exquisite attacking performance, 37:36.
Rapid Bucuresti also managed to win their second game this season, 27:22, to improve their playoff chances, while Team Esbjerg dominated Zaglebie Lubin, 36:24, with their largest win of the season.
We had a lot of problems during the week and it shows a really good fighting spirit that the girls could overcome these problems. Our defence played exremely well, but the decisive moments were in the second half, when we had great saves in the goal and fast breaks as well.
It was really important after last week, to come here and earn two points. It is hard to say it, but the better team won today. They were everywhere in defence, in attack and they have fighting spirit.
I'm very happy for the girls, because they succeded with this great victory after our last game in Metz. I'm grateful for our supporters that cheered for us through the whole game. So proud off all our team.
It's alway hard to play here because of the supporters in the stands. I know they give the team so much energy. We started really bad and we didn't give up, but still it was too late to come back.
We played two different halves of the match: in the first we used our chances, but in the second half we had a lot of missed shots in 100% situations and the opponent made a lot of fastbreaks.
I’m very proud of my team and happy for the win. We knew Ikast is a good team and that’s why they were unbeaten until now. It was a hard way for us to find the winners path, but now we made a big step in the Champions League.
We kept fighting until the end, but we weren’t good enough to beat Fradi today. Today, they showed why they were the Final4 last year.