Thanks to Strong Defense: SC Magdeburg Wins Against Kiel

From the first second, the hall was full of energy.
The green and red fans in the sold-out GETEC Arena cheered and sang for their team.
The match was clearly a top game with great atmosphere and high-level handball.
Omar Ingi Magnusson scored the first goal.
Then Kiel scored.
Both teams took turns attacking and creating new challenges for each other.
Not only the attackers were good, but also the goalkeepers.
Matej Mandic for Magdeburg and Andreas Wolff for Kiel stopped many shots.
After five minutes, the score was 2:2.

Even though the German national goalkeeper for the record champions had a save rate of 44 percent at one time,
Mandic had a better rate of 57 percent.
Because of this, his teammates scored 3 goals in a row to make it 5:2 by the 11th minute.
Albin Lagergren doubled the lead to 11:5 in the 23rd minute.
Felix Claar scored shortly after for a 13:6 score at the 26th minute.

A key to this was the defense.
Whether it was Magnus Saugstrup or Oscar Bergendahl in the center,
who were helped a lot by Antonio Serradilla in the middle block,
the guests from the north had almost no chance to get through.
Not much changed after the break.
Then Dominik Kuzmanovic came in as goalkeeper for Kiel and stopped two clear chances right after the game started again.

On the other side, Magdeburg stayed confident.
Magnusson scored a penalty goal to make it 19:12 in the 36th minute.
This was his 1250th goal in the Handball-Bundesliga.
In the 51st minute, the Iceland native scored again for a 30:22 score.
This made the GETEC Arena cheer once more.
Kiel tried to come back several times, but Magdeburg did not give up.
With a strong team performance, Magdeburg secured their next win and took the lead in the table.