cool. Niklas Ekberg was on the bench throughout the match.
However, he became Kiel’s champion in the bronze match at the Leahue Championship against Veszprem.
The Swede came and placed four important penalties.
Bronze matches can be highly objectionable events.
But the match for third place in this year’s Champions League was nothing but a throwaway.
In front of 20,000 in the stands and a strong sound scene in Cologne, Veszprem and Kiel played a high-octane shoot-out thriller (which was immediately followed in regular time after the extension was canceled).
The match was also a Swedish duel between Visprem Andreas Nilsson and Niklas Ekbergs Kell.
But there wasn’t much blue and yellow fencing on the field.
seat of talent
After yesterday’s semi-final loss to Barcelona, Ekberg saw himself in Sportbeldet.
– It’s so damn good. The 33-year-old, who ultimately gave me my worst game of the season in such an important game, and unusually so, said at the end of the game after so many missed shots.
Kiel coach Philip Gitcha seemed to agree with Ekberg in the Swede’s assessment of his efforts. Because in the Bronze match, he put his superstar off the bench for the entire match in favor of young substitute Sven Irij.
Nelson with seven goals
However, Ekberg was given a three-time leading role if he had to take off his shirt and enter the field to beat a penalty shootout (into the net) in the second half.
The last two goals, which were also Kiel’s final goal in original time, ensured the Germans could take the bronze match into a penalty kick.
There, Ekberg gave his team a good start by placing first. When Niklas Landen, who was Kiel’s second great champion after starting at the end of the match, saved three Vesprem shootouts, it was Kiel who could rejoice in the end.
Andreas Nilsson was more active on the court than Ekberg. He was the top scorer in the first half with five strikes and scored seven goals in seven matches after his important 33-32 sitting in the last minutes.
Barcelona and Kielce won the gold medal in the final at 6 pm.