From their first match, Nantes handball players have measured the distance that separates them from the biggest European teams. For their return to the Champions Leaguethis Tuesday evening, they lost in Poland, against Kielce, 40 to 33.
Dominated the entire encounter
The H was dominated from the start to the end of the match against the finalist of the last edition and winner in 2016. Above all, he had a disastrous start to the match. And he suffered enormously because ofa former Nantes resident: the pivot Nicolas Tournatauthor of six goals in as many attempts.
The strongest group of the group stage
The Nantes people are already under pressure in the strongest group of this first phase of the Champions League since they will also have to face the Spaniards from Barcelona, the Germans from Kiel and the Danes from Aalborg.