Balingen - Christian "Eros" Ramota had made up a lot against his former club. In winter, the Cologne keeper had hired in Balingen, after the VfL Gummersbach want him anymore. But despite his top performance of the FC won with 33:30.
In the first ten minutes, the former darling of the public Gummersbacher nailed his goal against the furious run up score: five litters, plus a seven-meter, he defused in the early stages!
But then began the Oberbergisher. Within eight minutes of a 4-1 VfL turned into a 4:8. Among the seven gates in a row, was also the first Bundesliga goals from Adrian Rother, 18-year-old right winger from Gummersbach Handball Academy. In half of two it was only briefly thrilling, as the Swabians shortened to 17:18.
But the following one-man show by VfL Captain Goggi Sigurdsson brought the preliminary decision. The Icelanders scored all his seven goals in the second half. Three goals difference - five (!) Parried the seven-meter FC goalkeeper was decisive. And Roman Pungartnik: Eight shots, eight goals.
Coach Alfred Gislason: "The victory was enormously important in view of the Europe Cup places."
FC: Stojanovic 9 / 3 parade / Screens meters, Fazekas 2 / 2; Sigurdsson 7 / 2 goals / seven meters, Pungartnik 8, Wagner 5, Klev 4, Alvanos 3, Gunnarsson 2, Ilic 1 / 1, Krantz 1, Rother 1, Jakobsson .
