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AEK – Nimes 34-30: He pulled off a great win and hopes to qualify for the ’16’
AEK defeated Nimes 34-30 in Chalkida in game eight of the EHF European League, surviving the battle to qualify for the top 16 teams of the tournament.
After five consecutive defeats that put them in an extremely poor position in the 4th group of the EHF European League, AEK returned to success and even did so in an impressive way, on Monday night in Nimes Chalkida with 34: 30 enforced double wins this season against the group champions.
For the Yellow-Blacks it was their third win in 8 games and they can still hope to finish 4th in the group that will give the institution the last ticket to the 16th phase.
Game-wise, Dimitris Dimitroulias’ players were determined to claim victory and showed where they could head in the notch from the start to eventually secure a 13-7 win against the French
The visitors ended the first half with three more goals to take a 16-15 lead, but the Union impressed in the second half, using a counterattack to level the score at 32-27 to effectively secure the win and up there just to be careful The finale.
As for Union top scorers, Lemos led by 8 goals while he had a worthy backup, Himeneth, who stopped at 7 goals for the Greek team.
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