Once on the first day of the ‘Main Round’ of the European Championship of handball is a good time to review the table area. scorers of the tournament.
The Portuguese Kiko Costaobjective number 1 Barça to replace Dika Mem when he leaves for Füchse Berlin, he continues, another day at the top of the table, with his 39 goals in 4 games, which gives an average of almost 10 per game.
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He started the championship by scoring 9 goals against Romania, then he scored 11 against North Macedonia, 9 in the aforementioned duel against Denmark and yesterday he scored another 10 against Germany.
There is also nothing new in second place, which the Dane continues to occupy. Mathias hostagewith 34 goals. The chosen best player in the world for the last two years was proclaimed top scorer in the last major international tournaments and in this European Championship, for now, he is being surpassed by the young Portuguese full-back.
It is in third place that we find, without a doubt, the big surprise of this classification, with a Barça player as the protagonist.
If research had been carried out before starting the European Championship on who would be the Barça player who would score the most goals in the tournament, the majority would certainly have opted for Dika Mem, Ludovic Fabregas or the ‘Hispanic’ Alex Gómez. Well, no.
The Barça player who reached the podium of the biggest European winners is, surprisingly, the Slovenian Domen Makuc, author of 33 goals so far in the tournament, with an average of more than 8 per match.
The central defender, who next season will play at THW Kiel, He emerged as an unexpected scorer (at Barça he is characterized more by sharing the game and providing assists) with very interesting numbers: he debuted with 9 goals against Montenegro; He scored 6 goals against Switzerland and closed the first phase with 10 goals against the Faroe Islands. In the ‘Main Round’, in a much more demanding duel against Sweden, the Barça player scored 8 goals. Not bad.
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Numbers that draw even more attention if we take into account that, to give an example, Makuc scored 22 goals in 10 EHF Champions League games this season; an average of just over two per match. An abysmal difference.
Also an important Barça player, Makuc’s compatriot, Blaz Janc He has 20 goals and ‘Hispano’ Aleix Gómez 19.
Chasers
European Handball Championship
1.- ‘Kiko’ Costa (Portugal) – 39 goals (4 games)
2.- Mathias Gidsel (Denmark) – 34 goals (4 games)
3.- Domen Makuc (Slovenia) – 33 goals (4 matches)
4.- Simon Pytlick (Denmark) – 31 goals (4 games)
5.- Giorgi Tskhovrebadze (Georgia) – 29 goals *
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21.- Blaz Janc (Slovenia) – 20 goals (4 games)
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25.- Aleix Gómez (Spain) – 19 goals (4 games)
*already eliminated from the tournament
It’s surprising to see a disappointment outside of the tournament’s top scorers Dika Memwith just 15 goals, already one Ludovic Fabregas He only scored 8 goals, but in his case it’s because Guilaume Guille makes him play mainly in defense.
