PSG vs. Kolstad, Men’s Handball Champions League Group A Round 8, is scheduled for Wednesday, November 22 at 9:45 p.m. at the Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 4, Orange Sport 1 and Prima Sport 3.
PSG and Kolstad meet in one of the most exciting matches in Group A, with each of the two teams looking to reach the Final Four.
PSG, coached by former Spain international Raul Gonzalez since 2018, are 4th in Group A with eight points from seven matches and lost 31-36 away to Kolstad in the previous round.
In the previous EGF Champions League, PSG finished 4th in the Final Four, losing to Kielce 24-25 in the semi-final and Barcelona 31-37 in the minor final.
PSG are the reigning champions of France and have thus gained new qualification for the EHF Champions League (they have 10 Division 1 titles, of which the last nine are back-to-back), but they have never won the Champions League (the closest was in 2017, when they lost Vardar final, score 23-24).
Polish center Kamil Sypczak, PSG’s leading scorer in games at the moment, is also the competition’s top scorer with 49 goals in total (with 61 shots on goal, 80.3%).
In the domestic championship, PSG has 10 victories in 10 matches and leads with 20 points (the last success was on the field of the Aix team, one of the teams in the middle of the rating, the score was 39-31).
Kolstad, coached by Christian Berge, a former Norway coach for eight years, from 2022, are in 3rd place, also have eight points from seven games, and won at home against PSG, 36-31, in the previous round (also at home on on clay, he also beat the German champion, Kiel, with 34-30).
Having only been promoted to the first division in 2015, the Trondheim-based side won their first title in the previous season of 2022-2023, in which they did not qualify for the EGF European Cup (eliminated in the second preliminary round by Bidasoa, 27-30 away and 28- 25, 33-31 at home after shots from 7 meters).
By the way, Kolstad, the new force of Norwegian handball, is the team that left Dynamo out of the Champions League (the Romanian champions would have received a wild card for graduation this season, if Kolstad had not chosen this).
The star of the team is Sander Sagosen, a champion with Denmark’s Aalborg, France’s PSG and Germany’s Kiel (the team with which he won the EHF Champions League in 2020).
Kolstad lead the domestic competition with 19 points, one more than Elverum, the team they are most likely to challenge for the league title and a place in the next Champions League draw.
Superbet offers odds of 1.33 on prediction 1: home win in the match PSG – Kolstad.
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| Quota | 1.33 |
* the tariff is valid at the time of publication of the article
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