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Re : Quarter-final: PSG - EST (38-31)

Quarter-final: PSG - EST (38-31)

Paris Saint-Germain Handball... earned their ticket to the next round when they beat Esperance Sportive de Tunis in the second match of the day.

 

Espérance lose to PSG at the IHF Super Globe 2016 in Doha. (IHF Photo)
 
Quarter-final: Paris Saint-Germain Handball (FRA) vs Esperance Sportive de Tunis (TUN) 38:31 (21:18)

The second match of the day, featuring a second VELUX EHF FINAL 4 side, told a very similar story to that of the first. The first period was level most of the way through before the European team pulled ahead to create a difference at the break, which grew by the time the final buzzer sounded. 

After five minutes PSG held a narrow lead at 5:4 before Tunis took the lead with a fast break from Anis Mahmoudi while Jesper Nielsen was out on a two-minute suspension (7:6, 10th). The African team added another fast break that put them in front 8:6 as PSG returned to full strength, but a suspension for Marouen Chouiref would cost them as PSG’s Nedim Remili closed the gap to one with a goal off a rebounded penalty (7:8). 

As PSG continued to trail by one coach Zvonimir Serdarusic called his first time-out in the 13th (8:9), and his team soon equalised. Thierry Omeyer made a great save that kept the game level, and the European squad wasted no time creating a one-goal advantage to lead 12:11 when new Slovenia keeper Gorazd Skof took Omeyer’s place between the posts. 

Luka Karabatic created the first two-goal difference of the game in favour of PSG in the 18th when he scored from his position on the line, but he received a suspension in the next defence that enabled Tunis to decrease the deficit to one at 12:13. The African team levelled in the 21st as PSG seemed to have trouble gelling their defensive system with the new players on their roster (14:14), though as the half progressed the French side just as Kielce had before them. 

The French champions opened a more decisive advantage in the last five minutes of the half as Daniel Narcisse took the score to 19:16 on a successful fast break in the 27th. The score line stayed at three at half-time, and in the second period Tunis slowly came back within two as Remili missed a fast-break opportunity when his shot was saved by goalkeeper Marouen Maggaiz.

Despite a third two-minute suspension for Marouen Chouiref, which sent him off court with a red card, Tunis closed the gap to one (27:28) by the time the last quarter of the match began – but when another suspension followed (for Mohamed Ali Bhar) the African team began to lose their footing.

After being behind by just one minutes earlier they fell back to a three-goal deficit when Uwe Gensheimer scored on a penalty in the 46th (30:27) and from there the three-goal distance persisted. Though Maggaiz caused some trouble for PSG’s shooters, making an impressive breakthrough save inside the last seven minutes of the game (33:30 to PSG), he could not do enough for his team to level. 

In the last five minutes PSG were clearly on their way to victory, as Narcisse opened a six-goal advantage at 36:30 in the 57th, and they held on to finish with a lead of seven.

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