That something is not working very well in the defending champion of the Bundesliga showed the game in Flensburg. The hosts, the team of Flensburg took quite a big victory against its northern Germany rival, HSV Hamburg. In the end the score was 36-30 (18-15). This has widened the crisis in HSV right before their Champions League match against Fuchse Berlin, the first one to be played in Berlin. As for Flensburg this victory means passing HSV on the table, and now being in a very good situation to overtake Fuchse as well in the next few rounds!
In the other games on Saturday, Burgdorf 28-28 TBV Lemgo, Gummersbach 31-30 Lubbecke, Kiel 28-15 Grosswallstadt, Huttenberg 18-19 Goppingen
SG Flensburg-Handewitt: Andersson (18 saves);
Glandorf 7, Svan Hansen 7, Eggert 7/6, Mogensen 5, Djordjic 5, Knudsen 5, Karlsson, Kaufmann, Szilagy, Dibbert n.e., Mocsai n.e.
HSV Handball: Beutler (6 saves); Bitter (5 saves);
Duvnjak 7, Lackovic 5, Lindberg 5/3, Jansen 3, Flohr 3, Lijewski 3, Schröder 1, Vori 1, B. Gille 1, G. Gille 1, Kraus, Hens n.e.
