29.05.2021, 05:40 SEMI-FINAL REVIEW: Brest booked the first ticket to the DELO EHF Champions League 2020/21 final after beating Györ 27:25 |
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It was a highly anticipated semi-final expected to go down to the wire, and Györi Audi ETO KC and Brest Bretagne Handball delivered exactly that. Not only was extra time required to find a winner, but a penalty shoot-out, and Brest became the first confirmed finalists in the DELO EHF Champions League 2020/21 as they defeated Györ 27:25. Brest levelled the game two seconds from the end of regular time, after Györ had fought back from a half-time deficit and taken the upper hand. Following the nail-biting extra time and then a shootout, it was Isabelle Gulldén who scored the winning penalty for Brest to reach the final for the first time ever. It was the first semi-final in DELO EHF FINAL4 history decided with a penalty shootout. It was also the first ever win for Brest against Györ, and it brought the Hungarian powerhouse's huge 55-game unbeaten run to an end.
SEMI-FINAL
Highly anticipated semi-final sees first penalty decision Three of the last four matches between Brest and Györ prior to the DELO EHF FINAL4 ended in draws, and the other had resulted in a one-goal win for Györ. It was expected that the opening semi-final could very well see another close contest, so it can be of little surprise that when the buzzer for end of regular time sounded, the clash became only the second semi-final in history at the DELO EHF FINAL4 to be decided in extra time. And when no winner could be found after extra time, the game was sent to penalties, becoming the first semi-final in history at the DELO EHF FINAL4 decided in a shootout. The score of 20:20 at 60 minutes represented the lowest number of goals in regular time in a DELO EHF FINAL4 game, after Buducnost and Györ recorded a result of 20:21 in the 2016 semi-final. TEXT: EHF / Courtney Gahan |
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