Flensburg stun Füchse Berlin with last-second winner as Bundesliga title race heats up!
Simon Pytlick scored directly from a nine-metre free throw after the final whistle to secure a dramatic 34:33 victory for SG Flensburg-Handewitt over Füchse Berlin. Flensburg continued their impressive run of results, while the reigning runners-up suffered their third defeat of the season, leaving them further behind in the Bundesliga title race.
Bundesliga 2026/27 – Round 9
THW Kiel – Rhein-Neckar Löwen 37:36 (19:20)
THW Kiel: Perez de Vargas (7 saves), Wolff (7 saves), Faust 1, Duvnjak, Reinkind 1, Köster 3, Laube 2, Johansson 7, Ankermann 2, Dahmke 2, Zerbe 5, Makuc 5, Pekeler 3, Skipagøtu 3, Büchner 2, Načinović 1.
Rhein-Neckar Löwen: Jensen, Späth (15 saves), Timmermeister, Nothdurft 1, Lassen, Mierzwa 4, Steenaerts, Steinhauser 9, Seesing 4, Thrastarson 7, Mahé 3, Ciudad-Benitez, Jaganjac, Baijens 4, Aspenbäck 3, Kohlbacher 1.
HSG Wetzlar – HC Erlangen 30:34 (14:17)
HSG Wetzlar: Ravensbergen (3 saves), Bartucz (3 saves), Pantel, Kirschner, Mappes 2, Theiß 9, Simić 3, Øverby, Piroch 3, Mraz, Akakpo 2, Soler 6, Læsø 1, Löwen, Kompenhans 3, Nafea 1.
HC Erlangen: Pierre (13 saves), Ghedbane (1 save), Herceg, Bandlow 4, Nissen 5, Bialowas 3, Øverjordet 3, Firnhaber 7, Bissel, Morante 2, Lochman 1, Buck, Steinert, Kristjánsson 5, Gębala 3, Gömmel 1.
ThSV Eisenach – VfL Gummersbach 28:28 (14:15)
ThSV Eisenach: Špikić (2 saves), Grupe (7 saves, 1 goal), Joelsson 1, Scholtes 3, Attenhofer 2, Walz 6, Moré, Ende, Aellen 2, Solak 2, Antonijević 5, Seitz 1, Kurch, Schneibel, Montebovi 2, Leu 3.
VfL Gummersbach: Obling (8 saves), Biosca (2 saves), Vidarsson 1, Kodrin 2, Vujović 1, Blohme, Dujshebaev 8, Häseler 1, Einarsson, Schluroff 5, Hallbäck, Roganović 7, Horžen 2, Sindrason, Zeman 1.
SG BBM Bietigheim – HC Hamburg 30:35 (17:17)
SG BBM Bietigheim: Tomovski (7 saves), Hrdlička (2 saves), Larson 6, Orlov 5, Fischer 5, Vlahović 4, Claus 4, Norrbrink 2, Hermann 2, Strosack 1, Pfeifer 1, Nicolaus, Wucherpfennig, Josef, Wiederstein.
HC Hamburg: Haug (12 saves), Pein (1 save), Jørgensen 7, Hovde 7, Gadza 6, Andersen 4, Schmidt 3, Beyer 2, Axmann 2, Hadžić 2, Geenen 1, Valiullin 1, Norlyk, Daling, Unbehaun, Olafsson.
MT Melsungen – Bergischer HC 33:26 (15:13)
MT Melsungen: Palasics (10 saves), Simić, Stefansson 6, Sigrist 5, Enderleit 4, Stehl 4, Drosten 4, Balenciaga 2, Marchán 2, Schefvert 2, Mandić 1, Mensing 1, Dujshebaev 1, Sipos 1, Golla, Ignatow.
Bergischer HC: Van der Merwe (4 saves), Rudeck (4 saves), Steinhaus 9, Hangstein 6, Schrader 4, Fuchs 3, Hilding 1, Bergner 1, Becher 1, Kooij 1, Babak, Schöttle, Püttmann, Wasielewski, Da Rocha Viana.
SG Flensburg-Handewitt – Füchse Berlin 34:33 (17:19)
SG Flensburg-Handewitt: Burić, Simon Möller (16 saves), Pytlick 5, Bergholt 4, Grgić 5, Tønnesen, Jakobsen 9, Arnarsson, Blagotinšek, Minne 7, Novak 1, Lasse Møller 3.
Füchse Berlin: Ludwig (3 saves), Palicka (12 saves, 1 goal), Darj 2, Prantner, Šimak, Ariño, Grøndahl 1, Lichtlein 4, Gidsel 11, Freihöfer 5, Langhoff 5, Zaepfel 1, Av Teigum 3, Marsenić.
TBV Lemgo Lippe – Frisch Auf Göppingen 28:26 (15:13)
TBV Lemgo Lippe: Möstl (8 saves), Ebner, Hutecek 1, Theilinger 2, Zehnder 10, O’Sullivan 1, Wanner 2, Carstensen, Nyfjäll 2, Willecke 3, Versteijnen 3, Valkovskis, Wagner 2, Rubin 2.
Frisch Auf Göppingen: Buchele (3 saves), Sæverås (4 saves), Neudeck 4, Ten Velde 1, Kløve 1, Beneke 1, Goßner, Persson 2, Schiller 4, Sunnefeldt 3, Lastro 2, Newel 7, Hanne.
SC Magdeburg – TVB Stuttgart 29:28 (18:12)
SC Magdeburg: Kuzmanović (4 saves), Mandić (7 saves), Musche 6, Claar 5, Thielicke, Vind, Kristjánsson 7, Pettersson 2, Magnússon 6, Serradilla 2, Jónsson, Weber, Lagergren 1, Mertens, Saugstrup, Bergendahl.
TVB Stuttgart: Kornecki, El-Tayar (9 saves), M. Häfner 2, Ahouansou 6, Lien 1, Heydecke, Sanz de Nicolas 4, Mengon 3, Schmid, Matzken, Zieker 2, Meyer, K. Häfner 5, Donker, Nigg, Darmoul 5.
