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EHF Champions League
Regional rivalry marks return of EHF Champions League Women
The EHF Champions League Women is back in action after a month-long break for the EHF EURO 2022, and the comeback is highlighted by two entertaining games underlining the great rivalry by two neighbours – Romania and Hungary.
The Match of the Week heads back to Group A, where CSM Bucuresti face FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria. Meanwhile the only unbeaten team in the competition, Rapid Bucuresti, head to Györ for a match against the group leaders and record champions.
This match won’t be easy, but on the other side we don’t want to make it easy for our opponents. It will be mostly about us, how self confident we should be. And if we play using all our strengths, we are able to play with the strongest teams in the competition.
We know that the Danish team plays the fastest handball. Regardless of the fact that we have already met Scandinavian teams, I think we have the right recipe to stop fast handball. We have to focus on our attack, not to make many mistakes in attack and counter-attack, and what they punish in defence as hard and upside down as possible.
It is always difficult to start again after the international tournaments, it takes time for the team to get to the same level where we were in October. We have never won in Bucharest before, it will not be easy now either, but I hope that we'll get at least one point.
Esbjerg stand out for their amazing shots from outside, it is their strongest weapon, and we must prepare for it the most. We will try as much as possible to stop those shots from the outside so that they don't explode and break our defence. We will try to play the defence as tightly as possible, be as aggressive as possible, and try to use some chances from a good defence and quick attacks.
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It will be very important to have a very complete game in all aspects, we will have to be effective in attack and sacrifice ourselves in the defensive retreat. We will have to pay close attention to Oftedal's 1v1 and 2v2 with the pivot. And of course control the outside shots from the 9-metre line, especially those of Ana Gros.