Mensah buzzer beater for the first Magdeburg defeat – Kiel and RNL on “6 of 6”
Mads Mensah Larsen buzzer-beater “brought” the first defeat in the German Bundesliga season for reigning champions SC Magdeburg 35:34 in front of 6.300 sold-out Flens Arena.
THW Kiel beat HSV Hamburg 40:28 in derby of North led by fantastic performance of Niklas Landin who had 16 saves.
THW Kiel: N. Landin (1.-60., 16 saves, 1 goal), Mrkva (n.e.); Duvnjak (2), Reinkind (7), M. Landin (2), Battermann (1), Øverby (5), Wiencek (2), Ekberg (3/2), Pabst, Johansson (7), Dahmke, Zarabec, Schwormstede (1), Wallinius (5), Bilyk (4);
HSV Hamburg: Bitter (1.-18., 31.-60., 6 saves), Budalic (18.-30., 1 save); Schimmelbauer, Mortensen (7/2), Lassen (2), Weller (7), Axmann, Andersen (6), Niemann, Bergemann, Theilinger, Feit, Valiullin (4), Bajens (2);
Goppingen – Gummersbach 29:28
Kiel – Hamburg 40:28
MT Melsungen – Fuchse Berlin 29:32
Flensburg-H. – SC Magdeburg 35:34
Bergischer – Rhein-Neckar 26:27
Hamm-Westfalen – HSG Wetzlar 23:29
Minden – Hannover-Burgdorf 34:35
Stuttgart – Lemgo 32:28
STANDING:
| 1. | Kiel | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 206:147 | 12 | |
| 2. | Rhein-Neckar | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 199:162 | 12 | |
| 3. | Fuchse Berlin | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 202:159 | 11 | |
| 4. | SC Magdeburg | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 197:165 | 10 | |
| 5. | Flensburg-H. | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 195:171 | 9 | |
| 6. | Erlangen | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 189:177 | 9 | |
| 7. | Gummersbach | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 174:166 | 8 | |
| 8. | Hannover-Burgdorf | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 166:170 | 8 | |
| 9. | Hamburg | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 168:167 | 6 | |
| 10. | Goppingen | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 169:183 | 5 | |
| 11. | Bergischer | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 186:198 | 4 | |
| 12. | MT Melsungen | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 174:188 | 4 | |
| 13. | Stuttgart | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 184:222 | 4 | |
| 14. | HSG Wetzlar | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 163:178 | 3 | |
| 15. | Leipzig | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 151:168 | 3 | |
| 16. | Lemgo | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 170:185 | 2 | |
| 17. | Hamm-Westfalen | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 159:193 | 0 | |
| 18. | Minden | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 146:199 | 0 |
