Debutants face former champions for EHF FINAL4 tickets
In the Machineseeker EHF Champions League Match of the Week on Thursday, 2022 EHF FINAL4 participants Barlinek Industria Kielce and Telekom Veszprém HC meet – and only one will get a second consecutive trip to Cologne.
It is a very special game for us, for the fans and for the club. We know that we are close to achieving the dream of playing an EHF FINAL4, but we have a great team in front of us that we already played against in the group stage. They know us very well and it will surely be a game that is decided by small details and the support of our fans who will be the eighth player. With the strength they give us we will try to achieve victory.
These will be two brutal games. Paris have an incredibly strong team and have had four days to prepare intensively for us. We need the loudest and most emotional 'white wall' of the season on Wednesday to go to Paris with a good feeling after the first leg.
We have seen a lot of their matches and I think they have a better defence than last year. Andreas Wolff is in very good form. They could win matches with their defence and the performance of Wolff. In attack they have a lot of experienced players like Alex Dujshebaev, Igor Karacic or Arkadiusz Moryto. It is difficult to steal balls from them.
I always say that Barcelona, Kiel and Veszprém are the biggest favourites to win the Champions League. Against them we are always David, not Goliath.
It's a big game for GOG because we're up against the biggest club in the world and the best team in recent years. It will be a big task, but we are looking forward to performing in a packed arena, and of course we will give it everything we can to see if we can create a surprise.
