Great confidence in German handballs - Norway

Andreas Wolff lets Tokyo speak only deeds instead of words. Germany's Handball National Torwart has imposed a sweeping voyage - after each game, the 30-year-old disappears within the cabin. So also after his glittering appearance at 28:23 (14:11) against Norway.

Speech, he left his bare colleague Johannes Bitter, with the Wolff forms the goalkeeper team at the Olympic Games. "We're leaving the soul a bit, then we'll look at the table as the constellation is," Bitter said before the group final against Brazil this Sunday (12.30 pm / ZDF and Eurosport).

It's a knockout game

Alfred Gislason

There it will be back on the duo between the posts, which caught a cream day against Norway. Because despite the convincing victory in the duel with the EM third, the DHB selection can not weigh in safety. "With the wrong result, three teams can retire - Norway, Brazil and us," said national coach Alfred Gislason on Saturday and therefore warned: "We can not take that on the light shoulder." It's a knockout game. "

The initial situation

The starting position is clear, even if there are different scenarios for the German team: a victory definitely secures third place, a draw brings at least fourth place. It gets tricky with a bankruptcy. That would mean that out when Norway previously scores against record world champion France, but could even be ridden at a defeat of the Scandinavians. In the case, it would be due to the third-party cross-country difference with the then marked Brazilians and Norwegians. Gislason does not want to strive for the crowder. "We want to win the game and get us the third group place," said the 61-year-old Icelanders.

It will not be easy, even if the DHB team has brought the South Americans twice a lot this year. At the World Cup in January there was a 36:26 in the main round a 31:24 and early July in the penultimate Olympic test. "Since we got her up with a good tempo game," said bitter. "But if we get that in the fifth group game athletic still so on the stage as a few weeks ago, we have to look."

Do not underestimate Brazil

Gislason expects again 60 minutes of heavy work for his team. "Brazil is strong in the coming, we have to be hellishly careful," he warned caution. Under-etching will understood the opponent by no means, as in 2008 in Beijing already after the preliminary round the journey home.

Bitter was already there and knows how such a sporty bump feels. After the Norway game, the 38-year-old like his teammates, however, scored more on a medal that is the great goal. "For us, the tournament goes right now," said bitter. "If we win every game, you know exactly what happens."