![]() However, Grøndahl and Madsen scored three penalty goals each, while Kristjansson did not take a single penalty in crunch time. Therefore, looking at goals per crunch time game, Grøndahl ranks first among all players with at least four games with 1.5, ahead of Kristjansson (1.4) and Madsen (1.3). However, Kristjansson and Madsen played in more games with crunch time. Looking at individual players, the overall top scorer in crunch-time situations is Magdeburg’s Gisli Kristjansson with 10 goals, followed by GOG’s Emil Madsen with nine and Elverum’s Tobias Grøndahl with six. On the other hand, with only six minutes per game and eight and five games respectively, the sample size is of course not particularly large and individual games can have a significant impact. On one hand, this shows that they perform worse overall in crunch time than their opponents, but still manage to win the games in the end. Nevertheless, both have good results in games that went into crunch time with Kielce getting 1.5 points per game that went into crunch time (second best) and Paris 1.2 (fifth). Their goal difference per 50 possessions in regular time is +2.6, while it’s -4.4 in crunch time, a deterioration of -7.0. For Kielce, the numbers deteriorate even more. While PSG outscores their opponents by 3.7 goals per 50 possessions in the whole game, they get outscored by 2.1 goals per 50 possessions in crunch time, which is a difference of -5.9. Especially in attack they have problems when the game is on the line, as they then score 6.1 goals per 50 possessions less.įor two teams the adjusted goal difference in crunch time worsens even more than GOG: top sides Paris Saint-Germain and Kielce. The Danish champions are getting outscored by 4.8 goals per 50 crunch-time possessions, while for whole games it is only -0.1. The team with the worst crunch-time goal difference is GOG. That is, of course, by far the best value. In crunch time they only allow outstanding 14.3 goals per 50 possessions. Once again, the defending champions are especially outstanding in defence, where they clearly lead the league with 24.9 goals conceded per 50 possessions. The only team whose crunch-time goal difference is even better is Barça. Their possession-adjusted goal difference improves from 2.6 goals per 50 possessions in regular time to 6.0 in crunch time. In defence, Bennet Wiegert’s team improves from 27.3 goals conceded per 50 possessions to 24.0 in crunch time. While all teams see their attacking stats deteriorate slightly in crunch time and their defensive stats improve slightly, the German champions are the only team to get to the same level offensively as they did throughout the game, scoring 29.9 goals per 50 possessions. ![]() The best offensive team in crunch time is SC Magdeburg. Right after Carlos Ortega's team are Veszprém and Kielce, who both had eight crunch-time games and have each won six – 1.5 points per game. Only their game against Kiel ended in a draw. The Catalans have won four of their five crunch-time games. The most successful crunch-time team, however, is Barça. In contrast, OTP Bank-Pick Szeged and Aalborg Håndbold have the lowest number of crunch-time moments, as their games matched the definition just three times. Dinamo Bucuresti, THW Kiel and GOG all have one less. The team with the most crunch-time games are Telekom Veszprém HC and Industria Kielce with eight each. Accordingly, 47 of the 104 games (45.2 per cent) in the current season went into crunch time. The last six minutes of all matches were considered if the gap between the two teams was two goals or less at least once. Sometimes it’s the last five minutes of any game without consideration of the score. Sometimes it is the last 15 minutes in close games. There is no universal definition of crunch time. Now it is a matter of putting the best possible performance on the field, as there is a maximum of one more return match to make up for a suboptimal performance. This week we have the last games of the group stage: from then on, everything is at stake in the knockout phase. It’s crunch time in the Machineseeker EHF Champions League. ![]()
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