The Hungarian top club, where Apelgren is in his first season as head coach, had a narrow defeat with them in their luggage to the away return match against Paris Saint-Germain. Then PSG was completely overrun.
Pick Szeged won with a whole 35–25 (a total of 65–56 in the double meeting) and is clear for the quarterfinal against the title defender FC Barcelona.
Michael Apelgren, who led Sweden to a historic World Championship fiasco at the beginning of the year, let the blue-yellow national team goalkeeper Tobias Thulin sit on the bench the entire match. A wise decision since Roland Mikler played a great game and made 15 saves.
In PSG, the national handball team's captain Andreas Palicka also had to start on the bench. The 38-year-old came in later, but without having any luck with him.
The quarterfinals begin on 23–24 April. The other three matches: Magdeburg-Veszprém, Sporting Lissabon-Nantes, Füchse Berlin-Ålborg.
