Aalborg vs Kiel in the 8th stage of the Handball Champions League Group A will take place on Wednesday 22 November at 19:45 at the Sparekassen Arena and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 4 , Orange Sport 3 and Prima Sport 3 .

Aalborg and Kiel meet in the European handball derby of the week, with each of the two teams looking to win the competition.

Stefan Madsen’s Aalborg side are second in Group A with nine points from seven games, having beaten Kiel 27-18 in the previous round.

Aalborg missed out on qualifying for the last Champions League after finishing 2nd in the Danish league, with their best result in that competition coming in a 23-36 final loss to Barcelona in 2021 (in the semi-finals of the Final Four to PSG from 35-33).

Six-time Danish champions, most recently in 2021, Aalborg enter this edition of the domestic competition as the leader with 26 points, after 13 wins after as many stages, seven points ahead of second-placed Frederiks (the match was recently won 24-21 on Skjern field).

It should be noted that one of the most interesting projects in European men’s handball is currently being developed in Aalborg, which attracts top players such as Mikkel Hansen (multi-time European, world and Olympic champion, three times recognized as the best handball player in the world; he is now the team’s top scorer in the League champions with 39 goals), Christian Bjornsen, Landin Jacobsen, Simon Hald, Alex Vlach and Lukas Nilsson.

Kiel, coached by ex-Czech international Filip Jiha since 2019, are top of Group A with 10 points from seven matches, having lost 18-27 at home to Aalborg in the previous round, their second loss in team of the season after 30 -34 on the field of Kolstad.

Kiel missed out on the Final Four last season, being knocked out in the quarter-finals by Paris Saint-Germain, but won the German championship and thus gained new qualification for the EHF Champions League (23 Bundesliga titles to his credit, a national record) . , and won the EHF Champions League four times, in 2007, 2010, 2012 and 2020).

Kiel, who lost Landin Jakobsen and Sander Sagosen in the summer, are struggling in the domestic league, finishing only in 5th place with 16 points after eight wins and five losses (Magdeburg and Fuchs have 21 points each, but and one match less in each), also eliminated from the German Cup.

However, in the last round of the championship, Kiel defeated leaders Fuchse Berlin 30-26 at home in a game in which Croatia’s Domagoj Duvniak scored nine goals.

Superbet offers odds of 1.47 on prediction 1: home win in the match Aalborg – Kiel.

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