20.10.2020, 09:21
Kadetten start victorious thanks to Csaszar’s buzzer beater

GROUP D REVIEW: Schaffhausen win opening thriller against GOG thanks to penalty goal

What a thriller! In a very tight opening match with numerous lead changes, Kadetten Schaffhausen were lucky in the end. Thanks to a penalty with the final buzzer, scored by Hungarian Gabor Csaszar, the Swiss side took a 29:28 win against GOG. 

The two remaining games of Round 1 in Group D, HC Eurofarm Pelister vs. Grundfos Tatabanya KC and Rhein-Neckar Löwen  vs Trimo Trebnje, had to be postponed.   

GROUP D:
Kadetten Schaffhausen (SUI) vs GOG (DEN) 29:28 (14:13) 

• New Kadetten coach Adalsteinn Eyjólfsson had a successful start in his very first Men’s club European Cup season. 
• The biggest gap in the whole 60 minutes was three goals, when Kadetten were ahead 16:13. 
• At 24:22, GOG seemed to be on the way to victory, but the two final goals of Jonas Schelker and Gabor Csaszar turned the match around. 
• For GOG it was the second defeat in the new season on Swiss ground after the 31:35 loss at Winterthur in the qualification.  
• Kadetten will travel to Slovenian side Trebnje in Round 2, while GOG host Eurofarm Pelister from Bitola. 

GOG’s victorious away start series ends 

Three times in a row in the two different competition, GOG had started their group phase campaign victorious in an away match. In the EHF Champions League season 2019/20, they won 33:24 at Kristianstad (Sweden), in the EHF Cup seasons 2018/19 (31:28 at Azoty Pulawy/POL) and 2016/17 (36:34 at Saint Raphael/FRA) they travelled home with two points. Now this series came to an end in Switzerland. 

TEXT: EHF / Björn Pazen