Glassverket quietly confident in evenly matched group

For the second year in a row, Glassverket host a qualification group for the Women’s EHF Champions League.

This coming weekend, three national champions – Turkey’s Ankara Yeminahall BSK, Croatia’s HC Podravka Vegeta and Netherlands’ SERCODAK Dalfsen – will be joining last season’s runners-up in Norway for Quaification Group 1 in Drammenshallen.

“I see the group this year as more equal than the one last year,” says Glassverket´s head coach, former Norwegian international Geir Oustorp.

“Last year, Györ (Audi ETO KC) were in our group, and already when the draw place them in our qualification group, we knew that there would not be much we could do,” remembers Oustorp who was assistant coach in Glassverket last season.

“In fact, Glassverket were able to put pressure on Györ for a long time in the final of the qualification group last season.

The Norwegian hosts were leading 15:13, and it took Györ until the second half to find a way past their hosts and complete a nine-goal win.

However, the team that will take the court on the weekend will have a different look compared to last season.

Back court players Kristin Nørstebø, Jeanett Kristiansen and Kari Bratset have all left for Norwegian league rivals Vipers Kristiansand, while left wing Hege Bakken Wahlquist has joined Danish side TTH Holstebro and Swedish national team goalkeeper Martin Thörn has signed on for Danish Champions League participants FC …

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