Food - madness! The staff is still badly battered VfL Gummersbach took the former archrivals TuSEM food apart in its own hall!
36:30 (16:10) won the Oberbergisher and climbed to second place in the Handball Bundesliga.
The (without his captain Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson shoulder surgery) took office VfL had to replace a few minutes before kick-off another player - though for happy reasons.
Vedran Zrnic had traveled to Essen, but then left fled the hall, because he should be on Tuesday evening his father. Gummersbach sporting director Francois Houlet: "He got a call from the hospital. Of course we let him go immediately to his wife. "
Perhaps it was given the staffing situation at first, "head case" that the FC of the beginning of the game total of some 2,500 spectators slept. Eight failed attempts in the first seven minutes and a 0:3-residue! Only in the eighth minute VfL Gummersbach managed the first hit in this game.
The first was the outstanding defensive Gummersbacher Essenes Evar Klesniks not handle (a total of eight gates flung, six) in the 1st half. But when the FC-defense had better be set to the Latvians who went Oberbergisher turn in the lead - and huge!
They made a 1:4 from a 8:4-lead and extending them with increased playing time yet. "A super performance of the team," rejoiced the seated in the hall Sigurdsson. "Super, as the team has come back to the sleepy first ten minutes. The victory could have been even higher, "said coach Alfred Gislason.
And Roman Pungartnik said: "We won for our injured captain. Geil, that he is a taxi from the hospital we came. "
