The Palais des Sports in Besançon is bubbling even more fervor and passion for the ESBF, at each big european meeting Besançon handball players. It’s always been like that since 1984, the year of the first of the 21 continental campaigns of the Franche-Comté club. And this Sunday March 27, 2022 was indeed a new big day of the European Cup for the ESBF which found the 1/4 finals there for the 9th time in its history, but after 12 years of waiting (elimination of the Challenge Cup 2010 by the Germans of Buxtehuder)!
The Palais des Sports in Besançon was thus full to the cleat (3,300 spectators) this Sunday afternoon for the quarter-final first leg of the European League, against the very dreaded … Germans from Bietigheim. A noisy popular support which unfortunately was not enough… Sébastien Mizoule’s players have been beaten fairly wide (29-23 / half: 17-13 for the Germans) at home.
Bietigheim continues its monstrous series of 41 victories, now for a year
It’s very simple, Bietigheim is not not only this season the invincible leader of the Bundesliga, also qualified for the semi-finals of the German Cup – won in 2021 – and arrived in the European quarter-finals without the slightest defeat as well. No, Bietigheim have simply won all of their last 41 games – now – all competitions combined: his last failure dates back to March 31, 2021in the Borussia Dortmund room!
Since the opening of the current season, the Bisontines now display, for their part, a record of 17 wins for 11 losses (French championship and European Cup). By always being private, on long-term injuries, of two executive players : Alizée Frécon-Demouge (patellar tendon) and Camille Aoustin (wrist)…
Decisive return match in Germany this Saturday April 2, still live on France Bleu Besançon
Victorious in the last four days of D1/Ligue Butagaz Energie, where they are currently in 5th place (tied with Nantes, the 4th, beaten twice by… Bietigheim in the Group Stage of the European League this season ), Lucie Granier and her friends now have a short week to best prepare their “remontada”among the bosses of the Bundesliga.
This 1/4 final Return, decisive for qualification in the “Final 4” of the European League, will be to live live from Germany on France Bleu Besancon this Saturday, April 2 (4 p.m., kick-off)!