SJØLYST: The big team Kiel, with national team profiles Harald Reinkind and Petter Øverby, are ready for the semi-finals in the Champions League. The way it happened shook the entire sport.
– The wildest handball comeback in this century, signed the Danish handball expert Ramus Boysen https://twitter.com/RasmusBoysen92/status/1786101311194222818.
Nightmare notice for Norway
– Can’t understand it
The Germans were down by nine goals after the away game against French Montpellier.
– It’s absolutely sick, I still can’t understand it. There were 10,000 euphoric fans who stood in the stands for the last 40 minutes and created the framework needed to achieve something like this, Øverby describes.
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The penalty save for national team mate Torbjørn Bergerud, who sent Norway to the World Cup final in 2017, is the only moment in his career that he believes can be compared.
– We won the Bundesliga last year, but that happens over a longer period. Winning a decisive match will be something else, continues the streak player.
– The atmosphere was completely raw. With the starting point we had, I have not experienced anything wilder, says Reinkind with ten years behind him in big German clubs.
EUPHORI: Harald Reinkind celebrates wildly in a Kiel suit. Photo: NTB
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Penalty training
He reveals that the response Kiel coach Filip Jícha had after the big loss in the first game was merciless.
– We were driven rock hard for a week by the coach. We were tired when we came in for game number two actually.
Run away: – Far down
– It was penalty training?
– Yes, that was it. There was not a good atmosphere at training that week. If you were in pain somewhere, he didn’t care. There were penalties on video and. We had to watch the game again minute by minute, and got to rub in all the mistakes we made. But his aim was to awaken the beast in us. He made it happen. We could have had three dismissals in our first defense in that match. We had to play tough, and we were allowed to do that, grins the right-back.
Reviled practice: Norway supports
Strong Barcelona awaits in the semi-finals. On the other side of the semi-final tree there are also Norwegians. There, Christian O’Sullivan’s Magdeburg will go up against Aalborg with Kristian Bjørnsen and Sebastian Barthold on the wings.
It will all be decided in the “Final4” weekend in Cologne on 8 and 9 June. First, the boys are together with the Norwegian national team in June.
The Norwegian handball boys are preparing for the Olympics in France this summer by playing matches against the three Olympic nations Croatia, Denmark and Argentina in the Gjensidige Cup in Jordal Amfi on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday this week.
