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Füchse has not conceded over 25 goals in five matches

Minden lost both last season matches against Füchse by four goals, now they visit them after 31-31 draw against Lemg and this will be the last match for Berliners before their two big showdowns against Flensburg and Löwen

Füchse was eliminated from Champions League qualifications by HSV a bit undeservedly and unlucky and after that opened the league with a loss to Melsungen 28-23. That defeat caused many criticism against their coach Sigurdsson and general manager Hanning. In their next four games Füchse allowed their opponents 23 or less goals on three occasions and they defeated Balingen 33-25 in away game.Their almost perfect defense looked impenetrable on many occasions. In away game against Magdeburg even if their defense got penetrated Silvio Heinevetter was brilliant at the goal, saving shots with his arms, legs and even head.

- We are on the right track again. This was a hard-won win, many other teams will fall in Magdeburg and we are happy with these two points - said Silvio Heinevetter after 25-23 win.

Denis Spoljaric is an integral part of that defense which lost an important link from the last season - the Dane Torsten Laen (went to Copenhagen), but Pavel Horak showed he can play both ways, as did their line man Jesper Nielsen. That was known before for Igropulo. What was a characteristic of Füchse in previous seasons is the same this year - they are a real team, they do not play selfish handball. Jaszka is their organizer and leader on the court and they will become better in coming weeks when their left back Sven-Sören Christophersen gets in shape. He did not score a goal in Magdeburg and their leading scorers were Romero and wing Petersen with five goals each. Romero was in the focus of attention not just because of his goals but also because in 53rd minute he took coach's drawing board and showed line men Jensen where to move in the next attack.

- We have a great chemistry. We have so much experience that we always find different view on the game and that has helped us a lot. I make decisions, but we do not always stick to the tactics. Iker was great on the court, but this win was achieved by a team effort - said coach Sigurdsson.

- Against Minden we can show we have improved on psychical level also. We have to stay focused even if we play against seemingly easy opponent - said general manager Hanning in his latest column.

- We do not want to look at the league table, we decided to do that only after 10 games played.

Last year there were many problems in Berlin, Minden visited in the first round and Füchse was led to 29-25 win by goalkeeper Petr Stochl who saved 18 shots (Heinevetter did not play) A Slovenian from Minden, Nenad Bilbija, scored 9 goals and Minden was at -3 (23-20) in 52nd minute. We are mentioning that since Minden is practically the same team as the last year, apart from new coach Perkovac and right back Moritz Schäpsmeier.

- We are concentrated on what we can play - said coach Perkovac.

- Good performance was combined with a few missed attacks and as few breakaway goals allowed as possible.

Only the aforementioned Schäpsmeier is questionable for Minden. He received a red card against Lemg during weekend game and has also received a hard blow that caused haematoma.

They had a dramatic game against Lemg in which Lemg dominated for 50 minutes, which coach Perkovac acknowledged, but Minden had 29-28 and 30-29 at the end and that match ended 31-31. One of the heroes of that match was goalkeeper Jens Vortmann with 14 saves, including saving a shot by Lemb middle back Benjamin Herth 20 seconds before end.

Bilbija scored the most goals for Minden (6), Svitlica also scored 6 (1 penalty) while middle backs Dalibor Doder (1) and Sören Südmeier (1) disappointed.

- We can not allow so many easy goals to our opponents and we had only a few easy breakaway goals. We have to work on that and that takes time - said Perkovac, aware that Füchse have "stable defense with world-class goalkeeper and that forms the first wave of their
attack".

- Füchse is a very good team and we want to make them work for every possession. We will try to establish our game and win points - said left back Aljoscha Schmidt.

Füchse don't seem like a team that would beat their opponents by 10 goals or more. They went over 8.5 only against the league new-comers and relegation candidates, Eisenach, in the second round. Füchse came to this game after their debacle at Kassel against Melsungen. Their owner and coach were very angry, and the players had to react and in ended +14 for Fuchse They are coming into this match with four games in a row, their defense on the up, but this margin is still a bit too high. Minden are not such a bad team to lose by 10 goals. They lost both head-to-head games by 4 goals last year, and they have the same players this season. They've only once lost with more than 8 goals, and it was against Löwen at home (10 goals). Their biggest defeat in the remaining 4 games was 23-18 against Flensburg.