The shocking defeat to Serbia at the beginning of the European Championship seemed to wake up the team of handball genius Alfred Gislason - Germany is no longer stopping, and has reached its second triumph in the group of death of the main round.
Led by the unreal goalkeeper Andreas Wolf, who made 22 saves, they defeated Norway in Herning - 30:28.
The Germans are now one step closer to the semi-finals, but in the last two rounds they will face two of the toughest matches in the tournament - against France and Denmark.
"It was a tense game against Norway, we were lucky at times, but in the end we came away with a very important two points," said Wolf.
Along with him, Marko Grgić also emerged as the hero of this match, "bombing" Torbajrn Bergerud and Robin Haug and being the most efficient player of the match with seven goals.
His goals were especially important in the second half when Germany, which was mostly chasing its rivals' lead, reached a big 26:21.
"During the first 40 minutes we lacked a little courage for real actions, but we quickly strengthened our defense, the attack was better, and Grgić also got to work and managed to disrupt them," added Volf.
Johannes Gola and Lukas Cerbe each scored five goals for Germany, while Sander Sagosen, August Pedersen and Kevin Guliksen had the same effect on the other side.
The French and Danes had a much easier time getting points in this hellish group earlier today - the "experts" were better than Portugal 46:38, and Nikolaj Jacobsen's team was better than Spain (36:31).
The fireworks match between the French and the Portuguese thus became the most efficient in the history of the European Championships - 84 goals from Herning sent the match between Montenegro and Slovenia into history after just a few days, in which our national team was defeated 41:40.
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