HSG Krefeld Prepares for Challenging Handball Match Against HSG Hanau

“We talked a lot but also saw good things on video. The emotions weren’t immediately involved. We made far too many technical mistakes,” said coach Mark Schmetz on Thursday after training. Since there is currently a lack of self-confidence, the risk of attacks must be reduced: “We want to pick up the pace, but we have to play more sensibly in order to regain security.”

In order to get back to the basics and the necessary concentration from the throw-off, HSG Hanau will be the right opponent for the Eagles on Saturday from 7.30 p.m. Because the fourth place in the table is currently on the rise and is breathing down Krefeld’s neck. “This is an opponent against whom we have to present ourselves the way we always want to present ourselves. Of course this won’t just happen. This will be a very difficult game. “This is a team that always goes to work with a lot of emotions at home in front of a full house,” explains Schmetz, who can rely on all players apart from backcourt player Tim Classen.

For the coach, HSG Hanau is a “real” top team: “They dropped a few points at the beginning of the season, but it’s not for nothing that they’ve always been in the promotion round in recent years.” The Eagles still have good memories of that so far won all three matches against the Hessians. This of course sharpens the senses of the hosts, who have announced a revenge on their homepage. “This weekend we want to do better and keep the game open for a long time. We want to play bravely and trust in our own strengths. In the end we’ll see what it was enough for,” says Hanau’s head coach Hannes Geist.

This HSG duel on Saturday in the Main-Kinzig-Halle has a special star for two players. Cederic Marquardt, left winger for the Eagles, meets his brother Robin, who is five years older and plays in the backcourt for Hanau.