Rapid v Crimea, the second leg of the EGF Women’s Champions League quarter-final play-off, is scheduled for Sunday, March 26 at 5:00 p.m. at Polivalenta Arena in Bucharest and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 1, Orange Sport 1 and Prima Sport 2.
Rapid have a difficult mission to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League (Women’s Handball) after Crimea won the first leg 29-24 in Ljubljana.
Romanian champions Rapid finished 4th in the main group B (Metz and Gyor, who finished first, went directly to the quarter-finals), with nine wins, two draws and three defeats.
In the Florilor League, Rapid is only in 3rd place with 46 points after 19 stages, level on points with second-placed Gloria Bistriţa, but 9 points behind leaders CSM Bucharest.
Before the “double” with Crimea, “Rapid” changed the coach, the place of the Spaniard Carlos Weaver was taken by the Dane Kim Rasmussen, who won the Champions League with CSM Bucharest in 2016, and also coached the national teams of Poland, Hungary, Montenegro and South Korea, as well as Gloria Bistrita.
Crimea qualified for the play-offs of the EHF Women’s Champions League after finishing 5th in the main group A (Vipers Kristiansand and CSM Bucharest, the top two seeds, advanced directly to the quarter-finals), in which they won six. and eight defeats.
The Slovenians progressed with a decisive last-gasp win against CSM Bucharest, 28-26 at home, a result that forced the Romanian runners-up to concede top spot to Vipers Kristiansand.
“Crimea” is coached by Montenegrin Dragan Adzic, European champion in 2012 and Olympic vice-champion of the same year with the women’s national team of his country, winner of the Cup Winners’ Cup in 2010 and Champions League in 2012 and 2015, each time with “Future”. .
It should be noted that in this season of the Champions League, “Rapid” did not lose a single home match (six wins and a draw), and “Crimea” never won in Romania (a draw and 12 losses).
The winner of the “double” between “Rapid” and “Crimea” will play in the quarter-finals of the competition with the Norwegian team “Vipers Kristiansand”, the winner of the last two draws of the Champions League.
Superbet offers odds of 3.20 for a 6-10 quick win prediction difference: the hosts win in regular time 60 minutes by a difference of 6 to 10 goals (inclusive).
| Fast – Crimea | Victoria Rapid 6-10 goals | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Quota | 3.20 |
* the tariff is valid at the time of publication of the article
Source: Hot News
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