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- Updated: November 26, 2016
After a poor start to their VELUX EHF Champions League campaign by Montpellier, Patrice Canayer‘s men won five consecutive matches to be the first team of Group C to advance, while La Rioja remained in second place after Saturday’s 37:27 loss in France.
Montpellier are the first team to qualify for the play-offs from Group C
The best defence (Montpellier) in the group prevailed against the best attack (La Rioja)
Montpellier are on a winning streak of five consecutive games
Mathieu Grebille led the scorers‘ list with 10 goals
GROUP C
Montpellier HB (FRA) vs La Rioja (ESP) 37:27 (19:11)
Similar to the 13 goals by Filip Taleski from Metalurg in Round 1 against Elverum, Mathieu Grebille put in a high-scoring performance on Saturday.
The best scorer of Montpellier added 10 to his tally of 34 goals so far to guide the French side to a slight surprising high-scoring win.
On the other hand, La Rioja were …
