After CSM Bucharest qualified directly for the quarter-finals of the handball Champions League thanks to the miraculous 2nd place in the group stage, Gloria Bistrița also reached this stage of the competition after a double victory with the Danes from Ikast.
Ardelence won narrowly in the round, 35-34, and approached the return game on Saturday night with caution. During the first 30 minutes, the two teams were alternately in the lead, but none of them could distance themselves by more than two goals.
After 16-15 at halftime for our girls, at the start of the second half it went head-to-head until 19-19, after which the guests took the lead, distancing themselves by two goals: 19-21, 20-22 and 21-23, after which the Transylvanian show began. Thanks to Delgado, who scored from all positions, reaching the 14th point, it was 26-23 for Gloria Bistrita, who marched to the end.
Gloria, for the first time in the quarterfinals of the Champions League
It ended 38-29 for our girls, who qualified en-fanfare, for the first time, in the quarterfinals of the handball Champions League, where CSM Bucharest was waiting for them. For a place in the Final Four, the Bistrians will have a much harder, if not impossible, mission with Brest Bretagne, the round to be played on April 18. In turn, the “tigresses” will play against Esbjerg, which practically cannot lose the qualification after the success on the field of Podravka with 11 goals.
