DIRECT. Zagreb – MHB: in a turbulent context, Montpellier plays its European future against Zagreb

Skube est attendu pour porter Montpellier face à Zagreb. Midi Libre – Michael Esdourrubailh

Montpellier plays its round of 16 first leg of the Champions League at the Arena Zagreb of RK Zagreb, this Wednesday March 27.

A match to follow live with commentary here:

H – 5' : Zagreb finished 5th in its group in the Champions League with a victory against PSG in this Arena Zagreb (28 -26). Montpellier finished in 4th place.

H – 15:the winner of this double confrontation (return match in Montpellier, April 3 at 8:45 p.m.) will face the ogre Kiel (23 titles in Germany, 4 Champions League) in quarter-final of the competition.

H – 30' : the MHB remains on a historic victory in the Champions League against Barcelona (34-37) at the Palau Blaugrana. This shows that the Montpellier residents are capable of anything in this competition which they won in 2018 for the second time.

H – 45' : following the elimination in the Coupe de France, tensions appeared within the Montpellier group, the& rsquo;coach having taken a step back the week following the elimination. The success in the championship against Créteil (26-35) was reassuring but it will take more to get out of the boiling Arena in Zagreb (14 700 places).

H – 60' : left behind in Starligue and knocked out in the semi-final of the Coupe de France by PSG last week (32-35 ), the MHB only has the Champions League left to continue dreaming at the end of the season. And if the president is satisfied with the exit of the MHB group, coach Patrice Canayer wants to see him through to the end for his last season at the head of the team.