24.03.2024, 07:30
FTC overcome deficit, CSM with ease, Bietigheim advance following a draw

PLAY-OFFS, SECOND LEG: After Vipers Kristiansand on Saturday, FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria, CSM Bucuresti and SG BBM Bietigheim booked EHF CLW quarter-finals tickets on Sunday.

SG BBM Bietigheim became the first German club in the quarter-finals under the current playing format of the EHF Champions League Women despite a draw in the Match of the Week played in Denmark. Two former EHF European League Women winners were fighting hard trading leads and comebacks. Even though Ikast Handbold were close to making the reverse fixture a more dramatic one, Gabriela Moreschi delivered for Bietigheim and helped her team clinch a 60:58 aggregate victory.

CSM Bucuresti had solid ground after winning by six in the first leg and made it to the quarter-finals for the eighth time straight following another comfortable 30:24 win in the reverse fixture. FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria celebrated their first-ever win in Brest as they overcame a two-goal deficit grabbing a 31:26 win with the help of Angela Malestein.

TEXT: EHF / Danijela Vekić