Media Information. VELUX EHF Champions League Season 2018/19

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1 Media Information VELUX EHF Champions League Season 2018/19 Group Phase, Round 6 SG FlensburgHandewitt (GER) vs Skjern Handbold (DEN) FLENSArena (Flensburg, GER) Sunday 4 November, 18:15 hrs

2 SG FlensburgHandewitt (GER) vs Skjern Handbold (DEN) Group B Sunday 4 November 2018, 18:15 hrs Playing hall FLENSArena Campusallee 2, Flensburg Germany Capacity: 6,000 Round 6 Most Games vs Skjern Handbold: Most Goals vs Skjern Handbold: Top scorers 2018/19 season : Magnus Röd 23 Lasse Svan 15 Holder Glandorf 14 Magnus Joendal 13 Jim Gottfrisson 13 Rasmus Lauge 13 Simon Jeppsson 11 Johannes Golla 10 Domestic league Bundesliga Last 3 games: 01/11 vs Magdeburg W 26:25 W20:21 11/10 vs Stuttgart W29:21 Next game: BietigheimMetterzimmern Standings as of 02/11: 1. Flensburg : Magdeburg : TWD Kiel : RheinNeckar : Ludwigshafen :316 2 Two of Skjern s highest profile players returned to Denmark from SG FlensburgHandewitt in 2017 (Anders Eggert) and this summer (Thomas Mogensen). Both won the VELUX EHF Champions League with Flensburg in Three more players of the current Skjern squad have played for German clubs in the past: Bjarte Myrhol (Nordhorn, Löwen), Björgvin Pal Gustavsson (Bergischer HC) and Jonathan Stenbäcken (Melsungen, Berlin). New arrival from Slovenia Jan Grebenc is the only nonnordic player in Skjern s squad. Twelve players from Denmark, Norway and Sweden are part of the Flensburg squad. Only five Flensburg players, who won the trophy in 2014, are still on court for SG: Holger Glandorf, Hampus Wanne, Jim Gottfridsson, Tobias Karlsson and Lasse Svan. Each side have one Danish 2016 Olympic Champion in their lineup: Lasse Svan at Flensburg and Kasper Söndergaard at Skjern. Tobias Karlsson (2012 with Sweden) and Björgvin Pall Gustavsson (2008 with Iceland) have been on the losing side of Olympic finals. Six Norwegian silver medallists of the 2017 World Championship will duel in Flensburg. Both teams are reigning champions of their national leagues. It is the first competitive fixture between the teams. Anders Eggert is currently third in the VELUX EHF Champions League top scorer list with 33 goals. Both teams were quarterfinalists of the previous season, Skjern for the first time ever, Flensburg for the eleventh time. Both fell to the eventual finalists: Flensburg against winners Montpellier, Skjern against runnersup Nantes. Skjern were the first Danish team since 2012 (AG Copenhagen) to reach the quarterfinals of the competition. Skjern s best results in European Cup competition includes two Challenge Cup titles and reaching the semifinal in the EHF Cup, while Flensburg is the only club in Europe to win four different trophies: Champions League, EHF Cup, Cup Winners Cup and City Cup. Flensburg won their last five Champions League matches against Danish clubs (twice against Aalborg in 2017/18, twice against Bjerringbro in 2016/17 and once against Kolding in 2014/15). Their last defeat, against Kolding in September 2014, made history as the 35:21 scoreline was the largest defeat for a defending champion in their first group match. Skjern s only previous duels with a German team in the Champions League came in the Last 16 matches of the 2003/04 season against Magdeburg (30:25, 24:34). This is Skjern s second Match of the Week in a row, following the Round 5 match against PSG, a 26:24 loss at Jyske Bank Boxen. Most Games vs SG FlensburgHandewitt: Most Goals vs SSG FlensburgHandewitt: Top scorers 2018/19 season : Anders Eggert 36 Thomas Mogensen 21 Eivind Tangen 16 Sebastian Augustinussen 15 Jesper Konradsson 14 Bjarte Myrhol 13 Christoffer Mikkelsen 12 Jan Grebenc 8 Domestic league Herre Handbold Ligaen Last 3 games: 31/10 vs Skanderborg L 25:27 W25:30 10/10 vs Kolding L 28:31 Next game: Nordsjælland Standings as of 02/11: 1. Bjerringbro/Silkeborg : Arhus : Skjen Handbold : Kolding : Mors :

3 Historic encounters in the EC SG FlensburgHandewitt vs Skjern Handbold No previous encounters in European competitions Most Goals in one game SG FlensburgHandewitt vs Danish clubs: Matthias Hahn SG FlensburgHandewittKolding IF 25:23 Lars Krogh Jeppesen SG FlensburgHandewittKolding KIF 34:24 Lars Christiansen Kolding KIFSG FlensburgHandewitt 20:33 Holger Glandorf SG FlensburgHandewittAalborg Handball 31:27 Anders Eggert KIF Kolding KobenhavnSG FlensburgHandewitt 35:21 Holger Glandorf SG FlensburgHandewittAalborg Handbold 30:27 Most Goals in one game Skjern Handbold vs German clubs: Michael V. Knudsen Skjern HandboldSC Magdeburg 30:25 Henrik Møllgaard Jensen Skjern HandboldFüchse Berlin 32:28 Lars Møller Madsen Skjern HandboldSC Magdeburg 30:25 Jesper Jensen SC MagdeburgSkjern Handbold 34:24 Jesper Jensen Skjern HandboldSC Magdeburg 30:25 Kristian Gjessing SC MagdeburgSkjern Handbold 34:24 Lasse Mikkelsen Skjern HandboldMT Melsungen 25:20 Last Ten Games in VELUX EHF Champions League: SG FlensburgHandewitt: current run lost one Szeged MOLPick Szeged HUN L 30: Flensburg GER vs HC Motor Zaporozhye UKR W 31: Celje RK Celje Pivovarna Lasko SLO L 23: Flensburg GER vs HC PPD Zagreb CRO L 29: Nantes HBC Nantes FRA W 31: Pérols Montpellier HB FRA L 29: Flensburg GER vs Montpellier HB FRA D 28: Flensburg GER vs IFK Kristianstad SWE W 27: Kristianstad IFK Kristianstad SWE W 22: Aalborg Aalborg Handbold DEN W 24:31 Skjern Handbold: current run winless three Herning DEN vs Paris SaintGermain HB FRA L 24: Skjern DEN vs HC PPD Zagreb CRO D 31: Nantes HBC Nantes FRA L 35: Skjern DEN vs HC Motor Zaporozhye UKR W 37: Celje RK Celje Pivovarna Lasko SLO W 26: Skjern DEN vs HBC Nantes FRA D 27: Rezé HBC Nantes FRA L 33: Veszprém Telekom Veszprém HC HUN L 34: Skjern DEN vs Telekom Veszprém HC HUN W 32: Skjern DEN vs HC Motor Zaporozhye UKR W 33:26 3

4 SG FlensburgHandewitt players career statistics against Skjern Handbold Goalkeeper Torbjoern Sittrup Bergerud NOR , Benjamin Buric BIH , Johannes Jepsen GER , Player GP W D L G AVG HI PIM Dani Baijens NED , Mark Bult NED , Holger Glandorf GER , Johannes Golla GER , Jim Gottfridsson SWE , Simon Hald Jensen DEN , Simon Jeppsson SWE , Magnus Joendal NOR , Goeran Soegaard Johannessen NOR , Tobias Karlsson SWE , Rasmus Lauge Schmidt DEN , Jörn Persson GER , Magnus Abelvik Röd NOR , Marius Steinhauser GER , Lasse Svan DEN , Hampus Wanne SWE , Anders Zachariassen DEN , Benjamin Buric (Rk Gorenje Velenje 2014/15) Skjern Handbold players career statistics against SG FlensburgHandewitt Goalkeeper GP W D L G AVG HI PIM Björgvin Pall Gustavsson ISL , Emil Nielsen DEN , Kasper Thorsted Rasmussen DEN , Sebastian Skov Uhrenholt DEN , Player GP W D L G AVG HI PIM Mathias Tang Andersen DEN , Jeppe Haahr Anneberg DEN , Sebastian Augustinussen DEN , Bjarke Fredsted Christensen DEN , Anders Eggert Magnussen DEN , Jan Grebenc SLO , Kristian Hindo DEN , Benjamin Jakobsen DEN , Mathias Gliese Jensen DEN , Jesper Konradsson SWE , Tandri Már Konradsson ISL , Christoffer Cichosz Mikkelsen DEN , Thomas Mogensen DEN , Bjarte Hakon Myrhol NOR , Nicolai Hedegaard Nielsen DEN , Rene Toft Brølling Rasmussen DEN , Tobias Rasmussen DEN , Kasper Søndergaard Sarup DEN , Jonathan Stenbäcken SWE , Eivind Tangen NOR , Sebastian Augustinussen (KIF Kolding Kobenhavn 2014/15 DNP); Björgvin Pall Gustavsson (Kadetten SH Handball 2009/10); Jesper Konradsson (Alingsas HK 2014/15) 4

5 SG FlensburgHandewitt vs Danish clubs 1402 Season Opponent Home Away Competition 1995/96 Kolding IF 25:23 26:19 EHF Cup Last /97 Virum Sorgenfri 30:17 22:25 EHF Cup Final 1999/00 GOG Gudme 24:22 28:24 EHF Cup Quarterfinal 2003/04 Kolding KIF 34:29 33:20 EHF Champions League Last /14 Aalborg Handball 31:27 27:26 VELUX EHF Champions League Group D 2014/15 KIF Kolding Kobenhavn 27:20 21:35 VELUX EHF Champions League Group B 2016/17 BjerringbroSilkeborg 26:24 25:19 VELUX EHF Champions League Group A 2017/18 Aalborg Handbold 30:27 31:24 VELUX EHF Champions League Group B Skjern Handbold vs German clubs 304 Season Opponent Home Away Competition 2003/04 SC Magdeburg 30:25 24:34 EHF Champions League Last /15 Füchse Berlin 32:28 24:29 EHF Cup Group C 2014/15 MT Melsungen 25:20 23:28 EHF Cup Quarterfinal 2014/15 HSV Hamburg 23:27 EHF Cup Finals Semifinal Betano to present Player of the Match trophy The match of the week Player of the Match trophy, introduced by EHF Marketing last season, will be awarded at all MOTWs in the VELUX EHF Champions League 2018/19 season. The trophy will be handed over on court shortly after the match by alternating sponsors throughout the season. The presenting sponsor at SG FlensburgHandewitt vs Skjern Handbold is Betano and the trophy will be handed over to the awardee by Christian Vorhauer, CEO DACH. In the 2017/18 season, one SG FlensburgHandewitt player (Tobias Karlsson in Round 13) received the award. Awardees 2018/19: Round 1 : Arpad Sterbik (Telekom Vesprém HC) Round 2 : Ivan Pesic (HC Meshkov Brest) Round 3 : Dika Mem (Barça Lassa) Round 4 : Timur Dibirov (HC Vardar) Round 5 : Emil Nielsen (Skjern Handbold) VELUX EHF Champions League 2018/19 MOTW #5 Media Information by EHF Media & Communications, 02/11/2018 Contributors: Björn Pazen, Roy Knoppert 5

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