Article by Costi Pruna – published on Sunday, April 27, 2025, 10:04 / Updated Sunday, April 27, 2025 10:04
ESBJERG – CSM Bucharest, the return of the quarter final of the Champions League to women's handball, takes place on Sunday, from 5:00 pm. The match will be able to watch LiveText with video and photo from the room on gsp.ro. Helle Thomsen, the coach from CSM Bucharest, prefaced the duel from Denmark.
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CSM Bucharest won the Multipurpose Tour with a score of 30-29;
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Reporters GSP.ro Ionuț Iordache and Adrian Jitea are in Denmark and will transmit all the information that matters;
Helle Thomsen: “We will do everything that depends on us to qualify in F4!”
CSM Bucharest plays today in Denmark in the return with Esbjerg, the entire international season. After winning in the tour sleeve only for one goal, 30-29, with ESBJREG, CSM Bucharest has two chances out of 3 to qualify in the Champions League semifinals.
Coach Helle Thomsen has the whole lot for the Esbjerg derby and believes that nothing has changed after the tour match in Bucharest in terms of qualification in F4.
“It was a good match in the tour, an amazing atmosphere and I won a goal. Now on the move will be harder, Logic Esbjerg will play better on the field, but we will do everything that depends on us to finally qualify us“Helle Thomsen said.
A first “7” probably for CSM Bucharest: Moreschi, Fris, Neagu, Homigie, Kobylinska, Ostergaard, Pintea.
Tomas Axner: “We have to win, even if the SCM is a fantastic team!”
ESBJERG is not invincible on their own ground this season of the Champions League. The Danish champion won 5 games out of 7, but lost with Gyor, 23-29 and made equal to Ludwigsburg, 30-30.
However, the bookmakers give it to Esbjerg super favorite for today's match with CSM, and they rated it with 1.32-1.37, while the Romanian champion has a share of 4.00-4.30.
Esbjerg's coach, the Swedish Tomas Axner is aware that only Victoria takes the Danish champion to the end of Four. It would be the fourth consecutive qualification for ESBJERG in F4.
“We have a beautiful and clear prerequisite for the match: Victoria. We can win in a goal or penalties, it really doesn't matter, we have to win.
Of course, there are things we have learned from the first leg and we will apply them in return, but we also know that CSM is a fantastic team, “EHF, Esbjerg's coach Tomas Axner told the EHF website.
A first “7” possible for Esbjerg: Kristensen, Solberg, Reistad, Moller, Traborg, Dekker, Iiversen.
