One week after the disappointing Final Four in the DHB Cup, SC Magdeburg returned to winning ways. The team from the city on the Elbe won 30:26 (14:14) at TVB Stuttgart in front of 6,212 spectators. Magdeburg's top scorer was Albin Lagergren with six goals. Magdeburg now face the quarter-finals of the Champions League - the league game against Flensburg originally scheduled for next weekend has been postponed to May 21.
Magdeburg did not get off to a good start, conceding a seven-meter penalty early on and making too many mistakes in attack. As a result, Stuttgart quickly took a two-goal lead (2:4/8th). Magdeburg worked its way into the game, but was too rarely victorious in defense, with the result that the deficit did not shrink at first. However, the game was tied at the break because Stuttgart equalized shortly before the buzzer.
After the break, SCM was mostly able to get ahead - but was initially unable to shake off Stuttgart. It was only when the home side increasingly made mistakes that SCM pulled three goals ahead for the first time (20:17/40). SCM goalkeeper Matej Mandic got into the game better and the visitors extended their lead. Magdeburg's lack of concentration brought TVB back to within one goal at times, but SCM prevailed in the end.
