VELUX EHF Champions League player of the week - Round 6

by EHF Champions League

In a Facebook poll of 1,233 respondents, 45.2% chose “RW - Jerko Matulic (Zagreb)”. How we count

RW - Jerko Matulic (Zagreb)
45.2%
CB - Sebastian Skube (Celje)
41.4%
GK - Kasper Hvidt (KIF Kolding Kobenhavn)
8.6%
LB - Bo Spellerberg (KIF Kolding Kobenhavn)
1.7%
LW - Harvard Tvedten (Aalborg)
1.4%
LP - Jesper Noddesbo (FC Barcelona)
1.3%
RB - Luis Felipe Jiminez (Naturouse La Rioja)
0.5%
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Jerko Matulic won the player-of-the-week poll with 45.2%, but the audience split sharply by geography. Croatia, the second-largest national bloc, leaned Matulic, while Slovenia—the largest bloc with 386 votes—backed Sebastian Skube.

That divide produced a close finish: Matulic collected 557 votes and Skube 510. Their gender profiles differed too, with Matulic’s voters nearly balanced and Skube’s group more male-heavy.

  • Geographic Split · Slovenia backed Skube while Croatia backed Matulic.
  • Close Finish · Matulic led Skube by 47 votes.
  • Audience Profile · Matulic’s voters were nearly gender-balanced; Skube’s were 63% male.