Although it has been known for a long time that the Buducnost Bemax handball players will take 5th place in group B, only in the last round will it be decided who will play against them in the round of XNUMX of the Champions League.
Competitors for the 4th position in group A are Ferencvaros with 13 and Brest with 12 points, which secured a place in the knockout phase with a draw away to the leader, ĆSM Bucharest (30:30).
Đurđina Jauković had a chance to bring victory to the French team, but with a 30:29 lead, with 23 seconds left, Evelina Erikson saved her shot from six meters.
Adrijan Vasile took a time-out, and Kristina Neagu made up for a missed seven-pointer in the last minute and scored a draw just before the siren.
In the visiting team, Montenegrins were the best - Jauković scored eight goals, and Tatjana Brnović was accurate six times, while Itana Grbić also scored once.
Neaga scored nine for the home team, while Montenegrins Ema Alivodić and Andrea Klikovac did not register.
Before the last round, Brest is fifth in the table with 12 points, and Bittheim and Krim have 10 each.
The team from Ljubljana, led by Dragan Adžić, and the second goal scorer is Jovanka Radičević (71 goals, four less than Darja Dmitrijeva), need a victory over ĆSM Bucharest in Ljubljana and a defeat of Brest at home against the two-time consecutive European champions, Vipers.
As Bittheim has a home draw against Most, the only team that does not have a point in the elite competition, then three teams would have 12 points each.
In that case, the mini-table would decide, where Adžić's team would have six points, and Brest and Bitigheim would have three points each. Then it would be decided by the goal difference in the matches between them, and the French team has an advantage over the German team, because it is at zero (101:101), and Bittheim is at minus four (111:115).
In the event that Crimea and Bitigheim have the same number of points, and Brest wins at least one more, it would settle the mutual score between the champions of Slovenia and Germany. There, Adžić and Radičević would be "hanged" for recklessness in the finish of the rematch, because Krim lost 30:23 in the "MHP Arena" in Ludwigsburg, and in the "Tivoli" hall eight seconds before the end, they conceded a goal for the final 35:28.
Due to the fact that in their matches everything is at zero, the total goal difference would decide, and Bittheim is currently even 30 better than the team from Ljubljana...
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