Overview
- Kiel sit first in the Handball-Bundesliga at 10:0 after five matches, one point ahead of SC Magdeburg.
- In a 41:34 win in Leipzig, Elias Ellefsen á Skipagøtu produced eight goals and seven assists to lift his season total to 45 goals in five games.
- He ranks second on the league scoring list behind Omar Ingi Magnusson and currently leads stars such as Mathias Gidsel and Kai Häfner.
- Teammate Domagoj Duvnjak called his form “unfassbar” yet cautioned that only five games have been played and much can still happen.
- Club leaders kept faith through inconsistency and injuries, with Jicha granting a bigger role and management opting against a summer move to GOG as the player entered this season healthy.