Media Information VELUX EHF Champions League Season 2016/17

Round 4 PSG (FRA) vs SG Flensburg-Handewitt (GER) Stade Pierre de Coubertin, Paris Sunday, 16 October, 18:30 hrs GROUP A Round 4

PSG Handball (FRA) vs SG Flensburg-Handewitt (GER) Sunday, 16 October 2016, 18:30 hrs Playing hall Stade Pierre de Coubertin 82, Av. Georges Lafond 75016 Paris France Capacity: 4,012

• Flensburg’s left wing and Paris-born Kentin Mahe faces up to Most Games vs Flensburg: Most Games vs PSG: Patrice Annonay 4 four PSG Frenchmen (, Luka Karabatic, and ), with whom he was part of the Olympic silver Mattias Andersson, Lars Bastian, Dan Luc Abalo, Bruno Arive, Nerijus Atajevas, team at Rio - another French teammate Nikola Karabatic is ruled out Beutler, Lars Christiansen, Petar Djordjic, , Lilian Di Salvo, Ibrahim due to a minor knee injury , Holger Glandorf, Jim Diaw, Belgaeum Filah, Olivier Girault, Gottfridsson, Johan Jakobsson, Johnny • overall of up to nine players, who played in the Olympic final Robert Gunnarsson, , Jensen, Tobias Karlsson, Michael V. on-court: besides those five Frenchmen, the Danish gold medalists Samuel Honrubia, Luka Karabatic, Nikola Knudsen, Igor Kos , Kevin Møller, Kasper Karabatic, Benoit Kounkoud, Robert Lis, Mikkel Hansen, Henrik Möllgaard (PSG) and and Lasse Svan (Flensburg) - this can be beaten only in the reverse Nielsen, Bogdan Radivojevic, Rasmus Frederic Louis, Henrik Møllgaard Jensen, fixture when Nikola Karabatic is back Lauge Schmidt, Glen Solberg, Goran Sebastien Mongin, Jeffrey M’Tima, Sprem, Soren Carl Stryger, Lasse Svan • PSG coach Noka Serdarusic had started his coaching career at Daniel Narcisse, Thierry Omeyer, Sergiy Henrik Toft Hansen, 2 Onufryienko, Emeric Paillasson, Arnaud Flensburg in 1990, before he went to Kiel (1993-2008) Siffert, Cedric Sorhaindo, Christopher • both head coaches have once won the EHF CL: Serdarusic in Spincer, Igor Vori 2 2007, Ljubomir Vranjes in 2014 - in both cases, the final fixture was Kiel vs Flensburg Most Goals vs PSG: Most Goals vs Flensburg: • both coaches have experience in coaching national teams: Goran Sprem 20 Mikkel Hansen 16 Serdarusic had been at helm of Slovenia for one and a half years Anders Eggert 18 Ibrahim Diaw 10 in 2009/10, while Vranjes was intermediate coach of Serbia in the Holger Glandorf 10 Nikola Karabatic 10 qualification for the EHF EURO 2014 10 Samuel Honrubia 9 • Mahe (16 goals) and PSG new German arrival Uwe Gensheimer Lars Christiansen 8 Sergiy Onufryienko 8 (23) are the currently best scorers of both sides Igor Kos 8 • four former or current IHF World Handball Players of the Year Domestic league are part of the PSG squad: Nikola Karabatic (2007, 2014), Thierry Domestic leagues Omeyer (2008), Mikkel Hansen (2011, 2015), Daniel Narcisse (2012) French Starligue German Bundesliga • on the other hand, Flensburg count on the 2014 IHF World Last 3 games Last 4 games Coach of the Year, Vranjes 05.10. vs Aix W34:32 12.10. vs Gummersbach W33:22 • Flensburg never won any CL match on French courts 29.09. @ Toulouse W27:38 09.10. @ Lemgo W29:33 • each side hade qualified once for the VELUX EHF FINAL4 in 21.09. @ Cesson-Rennes W28:22 Cologne - as debutants, Flensburg took the trophy in 2014, while 21.09. vs Melsungen W29:25 Paris finished third in 2016 17.09. @ Rhein-Neckar W17:21 Next game • two Swedes - SG goalkeeper Mattias Andersson and defence Next game boss Tobias Karlsson - are the only current Flensburg players, who 13.10. @ Dunkerque had been coached by Serdarusic at his time at Kiel 23.10. @ HSG Wetzlar • in the 2015/16 season, PSG secured the top position of their Standings group to skip the Last 16 with a home win against Flensburg in the Standings last group phase round (35:32) 1. Nantes 4 123:110 7 1. Flensburg 7 212:161 14 • in Round 1, PSG lost their first out of in total four duels against 2. Paris 3 100:81 6 a German team in the group phase, 27:28 at Kiel 2. Kiel 8 232:182 14 3. Montpellier 4 126:109 6 • eight different nations are represented in the two squads: 3. Füchse 8 230:191 14 ... France, Germany, Sweden, and Croatia in both, besides ... Slovenia in the PSG roster and Latvia and Serbia on Flensburg’s side 14. Selestat 4 98:112 0 18. Coburg 8 194:233 2

2 Historic encounters in the EC

Paris Saint-Germain Handball vs SG Flensburg-Handewitt 2-0-2 (124:139) 4:4 15.10.2005 SG Flensburg Handewitt vs Paris Handball, EHF Champions League – Group H 37:24 (17:13) 13.11.2015 Paris Handball vs SG Flensburg Handewitt, EHF Champions League – Group H 33:31 (16:16) 19.09.2015 SG Flensburg-Handewitt vs Paris Saint-Germain Handball, VELUX EHF Champions League – Group A 39:32 (21:16) 06.03.2016 Paris Saint-Germain Handball vs SG Flensburg-Handewitt, VELUX EHF Champions League – Group A 35:32 (16:16)

Matchdetails of last match - 06.03.2016 (Paris, France) Paris Saint-Germain Handball vs SG Flensburg-Handewitt 35:32 (16:16) VELUX EHF Champions League – Group A Referees: Nenad Nikolic/Dusan Stojkovic (Serbia). Suspensions: 4’ – 12’ (Kounkoud 4’ – Karlsson 2’, Glandorf 2’, Jakobsson 4’, Heinl 2’, Radivojevic 2’). Number of 7m: 6/5 – 6/5. Attendance: 4,000.

Tremblay-en-France Handball <= Patrice Annonay Mattias Andersson Thierry Omeyer Kevin Møller - - Henrik Møllgaard (1) Tobias Karlsson (5) Anders Eggert HC PPD Zagreb <= Igor Vori (1) Holger Glandorf Benoit Kounkoud (2) Lasse Svan Xavier Barachet (2) Hampus Wanne Aarhus Handbold <= Robert Gunnarsson (2) Petar Djordjic Luc Abalo (2) (4) Johan Jakobsson Luka Karabatic (3) Jacob Heinl Mikkel Hansen (7) Henrik Toft Hansen Daniel Narcisse (5) (2) Pays d’Aix <= Sergiy Onufryienko (6) (2) Rasmus Lauge Schmidt Tremblay-en-France Handball <= Samuel Honrubia (8) (5) Kentin Mahe Nikola Karabatic (3) (4) Bogdan Radivojevic Jeffrey M’Tima (3) Kresimir Kozina => Füchse Berlin

3 Most goals in one game Paris Saint-Germain Handball vs SG Flensburg-Handewitt:

Mikkel Hansen 9 19.09.2015 SG Flensburg-Handewitt-Paris Saint-Germain Handball 39:32 Ibrahim Diaw 8 13.11.2005 Paris Handball-SG Flensburg Handewitt 33:31 Samuel Honrubia 8 06.03.2016 Paris Saint-Germain Handball-SG Flensburg-Handewitt 35:32 Nikola Karabatic 7 19.09.2015 SG Flensburg-Handewitt-Paris Saint-Germain Handball 39:32 Mikkel Hansen 7 06.03.2016 Paris Saint-Germain Handball-SG Flensburg-Handewitt 35:32

Most goals in one game SG Flensburg-Handewitt vs Paris Saint-Germain Handball:

Goran Sprem 14 13.11.2005 Paris Handball-SG Flensburg Handewitt 33:31 Anders Eggert 13 19.09.2015 SG Flensburg-Handewitt-Paris Saint-Germain Handball 39:32 Holger Glandorf 9 19.09.2015 SG Flensburg-Handewitt-Paris Saint-Germain Handball 39:32 Lars Christiansen 8 15.10.2005 SG Flensburg Handewitt-Paris Handball 37:24 Igor Kos 7 13.11.2005 Paris Handball-SG Flensburg Handewitt 33:31

Last Ten Games in VELUX EHF Champions League:

PSG Handball: current run - won two 20.02.2016 Paris FRA vs Besiktas Jimnastik Kulubu TUR W 40:28 27.02.2016 Płock POL @ Orlen Wisla Plock POL W 22:27 06.03.2016 Paris FRA vs SG Flensburg-Handewitt GER W 35:32 23.04.2016 Zagreb CRO @ HC Prvo plinarsko drustvo Zagreb CRO W 20:28 01.05.2016 Paris FRA vs HC Prvo plinarsko drustvo Zagreb CRO D 32:32 28.05.2016 Köln GER @ KS Vive Tauron Kielce POL L 28:26 29.05.2016 Köln GER @ THW Kiel GER W 27:29 25.09.2016 Kiel GER @ THW Kiel GER L 28:27 02.10.2016 Paris FRA vs Orlen Wisla Plock POL W 33:30 08.10.2016 Schaffhausen SUI @ Kadetten Schaffhausen SUI W 25:35

SG Flensburg-Handewitt: current run - lost one 20.02.2016 Celje SLO @ RK Celje Pivovarna Lasko SLO W 26:30 27.02.2016 Flensburg GER vs MVM Veszprém HUN L 28:29 06.03.2016 Paris FRA @ Paris Saint-Germain Handball FRA L 35:32 19.03.2016 Montpellier FRA @ Montpellier HB FRA W 27:28 27.03.2016 Flensburg GER vs Montpellier HB FRA W 31:30 23.04.2016 Flensburg GER vs KS Vive Tauron Kielce POL D 28:28 27.04.2016 Kielce POL @ KS Vive Tauron Kielce POL L 29:28 24.09.2016 Flensburg GER vs Telekom Veszprém HUN D 24:24 02.10.2016 Aarhus DEN @ Bjerringbro-Silkeborg DEN W 19:25 05.10.2016 Flensburg GER vs FC Barcelona Lassa ESP L 27:28

4 Paris Saint-Germain Handball vs German clubs 5-0-10 Season Opponent Home Away Competition

2003/04 THW Kiel 30:32 27:34 EHF Cup – Last 16 2004/05 SC Magdeburg 25:30 23:36 EHF Cup – Round 3 2005/06 SG Flensburg Handewitt 33:31 24:37 EHF Champions League – Group H 2005/06 THW Kiel 21:28 28:44 EHF Champions League – Last 16 2014/15 THW Kiel 25:27 29:33 VELUX EHF Champions League – Group A 2015/16 SG Flensburg-Handewitt 35:32 32:39 VELUX EHF Champions League – Group A 2015/16 THW Kiel 37:30 30:26 VELUX EHF Champions League – Group A 2015/16 THW Kiel 29:27 VELUX EHF FINAL4 – Place 3/4

SG Flensburg-Handewitt vs French clubs 11-3-4 Season Opponent Home Away Competition

1997/98 Montpellier HB 28:25 21:21 EHF Cup – Round 1 1998/99 US Dunkerque HB 30:26 27:26 City Cup – Quarter-final 2004/05 Montpellier HB 32:19 22:36 EHF Champions League – Quarter-final 2005/06 Paris Handball 37:24 31:33 EHF Champions League – Group H 2008/09 Montpellier HB 22:21 25:31 EHF Champions League – Main Round Group 3 2009/10 Istres Ouest Provence HB 34:23 31:31 EHF Cup – Last 16 2012/13 Montpellier Agglomeration HB 37:37 27:25 VELUX EHF Champions League – Group A 2015/16 Paris Saint-Germain Handball 39:32 32:35 VELUX EHF Champions League – Group A 2015/16 Montpellier HB 31:30 28:27 VELUX EHF Champions League – Last 16

VELUX EHF Champions League 2016/17 - MOTW #4

Media Information by EHF Media & Communications, 14/10/2016 Contributors: Björn Pazen, Roy Knoppert

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