Best of Niklas Landin saves FINAL4 EHF 2022 champions league
Channel: Handball World
Date: 28/06/2022

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Niklas Landin played a decisive role in the penalty shootout of the third-place match.
"This Match Was Like a Commerical for Handball": THW Kiel Secures Third Place at EHF Champions League FINAL4
he match for third place at the EHF FINAL4 2022 of the Handball Champions League had everything you want from a handball match: pace, emotions and intensity. In the duel between two teams that had to get over the semi-final disappointment, THW Kiel secured a 37:35 victory over Telekom Veszprem after a penalty shootout.
In the first 60 minutes, Veszprem dominated at first, then Kiel came back. During the penalty shootout, world handballer Niklas Landin saved the shots of Gasper Marguc and Rasmus Lauge, while Yahia Omar hit the crossbar. As Niclas Ekberg, Steffen Weinhold and Magnus Landin safely converted their seven meters, THW secured third place at the EHF FINAL4 in Cologne for the first time. In 2013, 2015 and 2016, the German record champions lost the bronze medal match in each case.

Kiel coach Filip Jicha said in an interview with the EHF press service afterwards: "It is very hard to describe my feelings after this insane match. Both teams deserved to win today, but in the end I admit that I had no idea what my team is capable of, and of what they did in the second half. We were dead after 15 minutes we were just so tired. Veszprém were much faster. In the break I talked to my assistant, how we shall survive, but then the guys showed energy and trust, Niklas had some important saves in the last 15 minutes. I am very, very proud on my players, this match was like a commercial for handball."
Goalkeeper Niklas Landin was also happy about the conciliatory ending from THW`s point of view: "It was hard match, as it is always difficult to play two days in a row, we knew we have to get all energy we still had to win. We wanted to finish this long season successfully and this is what we made."
For line player veteran Bjarte Myrhol it was the final farewell from the handball court. The Norwegian was re-signed by Kiel as a replacement for the injured Hendrik Pekeler until the end of the season. ""It was a great game and a great fight. Two weeks ago I sat in my office and was on the way to the golf course, when I received Kiel?s call. Now I finished my career in front of 20,000 fans ? this was like a fairy tale," Myrhol said.
He explained, "My officially last match at Tokyo was in front of zero spectators and was horrible. It is great to end the career like this with THW. I was dreaming of playing for Kiel, and never got an offer. Now I turned 40 and had thrown my shoes in the trash can and still I was here today."

THW Kiel won the third place at EHF Champions League Final4 2022. After better penalty shoot-out, when Niklas Landin saved three 7-meter throws, “Zebras” ended season successfully.
THW Kiel – Veszprem 37-35 (14-18)
THW Kiel : Mykola Bilyk 7, Miha Zarabec 6, Patrick Wiencek 6, Sven Ehrig 5, Domagoj Duvnjak 4, Niclas Ekberg 3, Rune Dahmke 2, Harald Reinkind 1.
Veszprem : Yahia Omar 8, Andreas Nilsson 7, Kentin Mahe 6, Gasper Marguc 3, Mate Lekai 3, Rasmus Lauge 2, Jorge Maqueda 2, Peter Lukacs 1, Zoran Ilic 1, Petar Nenadic 1.