The anticipated final
There are handball matches in the Bundesliga this weekend, the women’s national team is fighting for a ticket to the Summer Games in the Olympic qualifying tournament, but the emotional hub of the German handball world is still the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, where the Final Four of the DHB Cup will take place this weekend. In our Magdeburg vs Füchse Berlin betting tip, we check out who will be the first team to reach the final
Of course, two great handball teams, Melsungen and Flensburg-Handewitt, will face each other in the second semi-final the evening before, but if we look at the Bundesliga table, the first semi-final is something like the anticipated final, because the two teams that will also decide the German handball championship between them will face each other.
The top teams from the Bundesliga only had to enter this competition in the third round. The Füchse beat their league rivals in Erlangen, the second-division team in Bietigheim and then VfL Gummersbach at home in the quarter-finals. The road to this Final Four could have been rockier. However, Jaron Siewert’s team now has the biggest possible opponent ahead of them
The road to Cologne was even easier for Magdeburg. As last year’s finalists, Bennet Wiegert’s team even made it to the round of 16. With the two home wins against Wetzlar and the defending champions Rhein-Neckar Löwen, the team from Anhalt made it to the Final Four.
SC Magdeburg – statistics & current form
SC Magdeburg is well on the way to ending a season with four titles. The Anhalt team have already bagged the IHF Super Globe. In the Bundesliga, they are battling it out with Füchse Berlin, although Magdeburg currently have one game but, more importantly, one point less and are therefore in second place. The prospects of winning the championship are extremely good. In addition, the defending Champions League champions are in the quarter-finals of the top flight
Magdeburg with a winning streak and top form
The chance to win their second title of the season comes this weekend in the DHB Cup. Magdeburg will be looking to make up for last year’s defeat to Rhein-Neckar Löwen on seven penalties in the final. The Anhalt team were certainly favored there too, but Bennet Wiegert makes it clear that all four teams competing in Cologne have what it takes to win the trophy in the end.
However, SCM should have the best prospects in the run-up. Magdeburg travel to Cologne with the recommendation of nine wins in a row. However, their opponents were by no means all lightweights. Among others, there were victories against Barcelona and Veszprem in the Champions League, and the Anhalt side came out on top against Füchse Berlin by 31:28 in what could have been the decisive summit match of the Bundesliga.
Last weekend, Magdeburg had another real opportunity to prepare for the Final Four. It recorded a clear 40:31 victory against TVB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga. All in all, last year’s finalists will travel to the Rhineland with an extremely broad chest and we think that the odds on Magdeburg and Füchse Berlin to progress should not only be kept in mind, but also the odds for a win in the regular season. However, Magdeburg will be without keeper Nikola Portner, who has been provisionally suspended following a positive doping test.
Predicted Magdeburg line-up:
Hernandez – Bergendahl, Chrapkowski, Claar, Damgaard, Hornke, Kristjansson, Lagergren, Magnusson, Mertens, Musche, O’Sullivan, Saugstrup, Smarason, Weber – Coach: Wiegert
Füchse Berlin – Statistics & current form
Perhaps it is the Füchse Berlin who are driving SC Magdeburg to top form this season. In November, the two teams faced each other in the final of the Club World Championship, with Magdeburg coming out on top. In the Bundesliga, the race for the title also looks to be going the SCM’s way. Whether the winner of the premier league this season is the capital’s kryptonite will finally be revealed on Saturday.
Füchse Berlin with six wins recently
After all, the Foxes still have the opportunity to defend their title in the European League and at least there is no SC Magdeburg standing in the way of Jaron Siewert’s team. However, the Berliners will hardly have traveled to Cologne to watch their opponents’ superiority in admiration. After all, the Foxes also have six wins in a row under their belt
The quotes show that the Berliners will not go into this duel without a chance. Perhaps Saturday will also be the moment when they can give their great rivals a jolt for the final spurt in the Bundesliga. It is certainly not impossible that the capital team will leave the court victorious, but we would tend to predict a win for SCM between Magdeburg and Füchse Berlin.
To be honest, the Foxes’ six wins are perhaps a little deceptive. After all, there were no tough opponents among them. The last four matches against high-ranking competition, namely Flensburg, Sporting Lisbon twice and Magdeburg, have not produced a win for the capital city side. The Bundesliga leaders will have to surpass themselves on Saturday if they want to make it to the final.
Predicted line-up of Füchse Berlin:
Kireev, Milosavljev – Andersson, Darj, Drux, Freihofer, Gidsel, Jacobs, Langhoff, Lichtlein, Lindberg, Marsenic, Nowak, Teigum, Tollbring, Wiede – Coach: Siewert
SC Magdeburg – Füchse Berlin head-to-head comparison / H2H result
The Füchse Berlin have not existed in their current form for very long, so that there are only 39 games between the capital city team and SC Magdeburg to date. The direct comparison even favors the Berliners with 20:15 victories. Four duels ended in a draw. The two teams have already faced each other three times this season.
Berlin won the first leg in the Bundesliga last September with a five-goal difference. In the Super Globe final, the Anhalt side got their revenge after extra time. The last encounter was just over a month ago. In the Bundesliga, SC Magdeburg won the second leg 31:28 at home
SC Magdeburg – Füchse Berlin betting tip
So close to the end of the season, the table doesn’t lie in the Handball Bundesliga. The league leaders meet the runners-up in the semi-finals of the DHB Cup. It doesn’t get much more top-class than that, especially as both clubs have already met in the final of the IHF Super Globe this season and battled it out for the Club World Handball Championship.
So a semi-final couldn’t be much more worthy. The form of both teams also fits. Magdeburg travel to Cologne with nine wins under their belts and have knocked out some tough opponents in the process. Berlin have six victories to their name, but have had to contend with a more manageable level of quality. We stand by our assessment that a bet on a win for SCM should be more promising in the Betway App between Magdeburg and Füchse Berlin
We also think that a lot of goals should be scored. Considering the powerful backlines of both teams with world-class players in all positions, more than 61.5 goals should be scored. However, our decision goes in the direction of the outcome of the game. We play the betting odds on a win for SCM in regular time between Magdeburg and Füchse Berlin
