After the disappointment about the championship missed on the last match day, coach Bennet Wiegert wants to win the premier class with his handball players from the SCM.
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When it gets summer and the coach’s beard grows, this is a good signal for everyone who holds it with SC Magdeburg. Bennet Wiegert has the habit of not shaving as long as his team wins. And it has been doing this in an impressive manner for weeks: 18 games in a row have so far remained without defeat, and 14 wins have recently achieved in the Bundesliga, despite many setbacks and a long list of injuries. “The season was anything but normal and consumed it,” says Wiegert: “What my team has done in resistance is incredible.”
Last exit Cologne
Until the end, the SCM had maximum pressure on the Foxes Berlin in the remote duel for the German championship, until the end the Berliners remained cool, in turn fulfilled all the mandatory tasks and lasted the first championship title in their club history last weekend. So shortly before the longed for the longed, the success -spoiled Magdeburger look at an unusual scenario: one season without a title. That was last five years ago. However, an exit still exists for the traditional club from Saxony-Anhalt, a very nice and promising one: Cologne. The Champions League final tournament will take place there this weekend.
The Magdeburgers have long been something of a regular at the annual highlight of European club handball. For the third time in a row, Wiegert’s team qualified, although in the group phase it initially did not go according to the coach’s ideas. In the meantime, the SCM even threatened to miss the leap into the knockout. In the quarter -finals against Veszprem, one of the big title favorites, the Magdeburgers then showed their usual face again: that of a ripped off, slaughtered and conspiratorial team.
From its best side, the SCM must also be shown on Saturday when the second participant is determined for the final on Sunday against FC Barcelona. Before that, the Füchse Berlin meet in the first semi-final on HBS Nantes-not excluded that a German Champions League final occurs.
Full of chapel
Wiegert doesn’t want to think too far yet. “Our goal is to be able to question for the final – and that is not a matter of course against a team like Barcelona,” says the Magdeburg coach. The situation also complicates that one of his best players will not be able to participate: Gisli Kristjansson has again suffered an injury to the shoulder in the final sprint of the Bundesliga, and the use of the Icelandic back player appears excluded under normal circumstances. On the other hand, Kristjansson is not a normal handball player and not a normal type. At the SC Magdeburg Champions League triumph two years ago, he bugged his shoulder in the semifinals and still led his team to the title the day after, later he was elected as the most valuable player in the final tournament. The opponent of the SCM in the said semi -finals was FC Barcelona at the time.
“I can’t plan with Gisli today,” said Wiegert on Tuesday, when asked about the important personnel. Nevertheless, 25-year-old Kristjansson will travel along. “We take everything we have and travel to Cologne with a full chapel,” said the coach, adding: “Every player in the squad deserves to be there at the season finale.”
In order to compete well prepared and to be able to give his men tactical solutions in critical situations, the coach used the Whit Monday to tap the opponent meticulously on strengths and weaknesses. The matter was a little difficult at first because the video of Barcelona’s recent game, the Spanish cup final, was long in coming. As if the recordings of the clear 34:25 victory against León finally had the recordings, he plunged into the tactical analysis as usual.
One last night shift
It may sound absurd, but if things go well for the Magdeburger in Cologne on Saturday, a night shift is waiting for a long season at the end of a long season: working on the final tactic. In the event of a final entry, the trainer has of course already examined both potential opponents of the final – the current French runner -up from Nantes and the old favorite rival from the Bundesliga, the Foxes Berlin. So the team that snapped a big title in front of the SCM a few days ago.
In the media round on Tuesday, Wiegert was asked whether there were in the back of the head for the Berliners. “What should I return for?” Asked the SCM coach back. “I can only congratulate the foxes fairly and acknowledge that they have played an outstanding season.” Anyone who knows the 43-year-old also knows that the thing with the missed championship is of course the ambitious coach. With a success in Cologne, the case would certainly be laid to the files.
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