Győr Audi ETO KC defeated Denmark’s Esbjerg 24-23 within the first semi-final of the ladies’s handball Champions League remaining 4 in Budapest on Saturday. The five-time Champions League winner from Győr was a semi-finalist for the sixteenth time, and within the remaining 4 – which will likely be held within the Hungarian capital for the tenth time – for the ninth time. Because of his success, he reached the finals for the tenth time.
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01 June 2024, 18:122024. June 1, 6:12 p.m
Three Hungarian golf equipment made it to the group stage within the fall, and ETO, the one one left standing within the remaining stage, waited for the weekend with the data that after 2004, i.e. twenty years, it will shut once more with out a trophy if it didn’t win. Then Dunaferr SE gained each the championship and the Hungarian Cup, whereas the group from Győr gained the silver medal within the EHF Cup. This yr, Ferencváros triumphed within the two home collection, so that is the final likelihood for the group from the Little Area to win a trophy this season.
For the ultimate, he fought towards Esbjerg, which noticed off Ferencváros with a double success within the eight. Two years in the past within the semi-finals, and final yr within the bronze medal match, the Hungarian group overcame the Danish group, which, with two consecutive fourth locations, desires a greater outcome this yr. The 2 groups met six occasions earlier than this, and ETO gained every time.
Line Haugsted, who left in the summertime, Nadine Szöllősi-Schatzl, Ana Gros, Stine Oftedal, Silje Solberg, Rinka Duijndam and Yvette Broch will play for the final time within the Hungarian group this weekend.
they have been all within the squad, from which Emilie Hovden was unnoticed.
After a spectacular opening, the introduction of the gamers started, with the visitors, former Győr crowd favourite Nora Mörk, who was preventing for her seventh BL championship, acquired a loud reception, just like the handball gamers of the Hungarian membership. It was his two targets that began the match, and Győr’s coach, Per Johansson, requested for time on the finish of the fourth minute when the Danish group was main 3-0. The primary targets in Győr and the truth that Sandra Toft was capable of defend towards her former group received the spectators within the temper to assist, drawing power from all this, the Hungarian membership equalized after ten minutes and took the lead a short while later (6-5). ETO’s protection, which grew to become extra decided and harder, resulted in a nine-minute lengthy Danish silence. After this, Esbjerg switched to a seven-on-six formation of their assault, however even then they have been unable to beat the efficient Győr wall. On the rival, the very best feminine participant of the yr 2023, Henny Reistad, didn’t flash within the finishes, she scored for the primary time half a minute earlier than the break.
One minute earlier than the break, the “residence” benefit elevated to 4 targets (12-8), and the primary half ended with such a distinction.
Ana Gros, a participant from Győr Audi ETO KC, additionally scored for the Danish group
Picture: MTI/Tamás Kovács
Esbjerg additionally began the second half at a excessive tempo with a 3-1 interval, however this time ETO shook themselves with out asking for a time-out and created the biggest distinction as much as that time and moved away by six targets (18-12). The Danish group, which as soon as once more created a numerical superiority with the goalkeeper, halved its deficit (18-15) close to the center of the sport, however for a very long time it couldn’t get any nearer to Győr, who loved the encouragement of the house crowd. As a result of lower within the effectiveness of the defenses and Reistad’s momentum into the sport, the edges rotated with a two-goal benefit in Győr for the ultimate ten minutes (21-19). 5 minutes earlier than the whistle, there was just one between them (22-21), and Esbjerg may have equalized within the final three minutes, however the ball bounced off the crossbar following an empty purpose, and Toft defended the following assault.
There have been solely fifty seconds left, when Győr’s group captain, Kari Brattset, made a two-goal distinction once more. Esbjerg made fast work of this – Sanna Solberg, the dual brother of Győr’s goalkeeper Silje Solberg, scored – after which embarrassed their rival with a counterattack, which additionally misplaced the ball.
Esbjerg may have attacked for the equaliser, however Toft saved one other try by Sanna Solberg within the final second, saving his group to the ultimate.
Toft blocked 13 of the 33 makes an attempt on purpose. Among the many Esbjerg goalkeepers, Anna Kristensen saved 5 photographs and Amalie Milling saved three photographs. Estelle Nze Minko from Győr scored six occasions, as did Mörk on the opposite facet.
The German group Bietigheim, which employs three Hungarian handball gamers, Dorottya Faluvégi, Noémi Háfra and Melinda Szikora, who’s recovering from knee surgical procedure, will compete with the French group Metz from 18:00 for a spot within the remaining.
Consequence, semi-final:
Győr Audi ETO KC-Crew Esbjerg (Denmark) 24-23 (13-9)
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MVM Dome, v.: Eskil Braseth, Leif André Sundet (Norwegians)
scorers: Nze Minko 6, Szöllősi-Schatzl 4, Oftedal, Gros, Brattset 3-3, Győri-Lukács 2, De Paula, Rü, Kristiansen 1-1, and Mörk 6, Reistad 5, Möller, Sa. Solberg 4-4 , Petersen 3, Rushfeldt 1
photographs/targets: 39/24 and 43/23 respectively
targets from seven meters: 3/2 and 5/5
exhibitions: 8 and 6 minutes, respectively