A great 40 minutes at eye degree in opposition to the Olympic champion and world file holder was not sufficient. After defeating France in the quarter-finals (28:35), the German handball gamers, who turned out to be too excessive, have been eradicated from the competitors for medals. But the World Cup is not over for Johannes Golla & Co. Now about the fifth to eighth locations.
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So: at 10.30 a aircraft flies from Gdansk to Stockholm on Thursday. There, the DHB choice will face African champions Egypt, who misplaced to Sweden in the quarter-finals on Friday (15.30 / ARD) (22.26). The winner of the recreation for fifth place misplaced the recreation on Sunday – once more in Stockholm – for seventh place. It does not matter: Fifth place qualifies to use for certainly one of the 4 qualifying tournaments for the 2024 Olympics. “If we had the likelihood, we’d,” studies DHB board member Mark Schober. Germany had booked a ticket to certainly one of the 4 qualifiers by reaching the quarter-finals.
There was additionally plenty of frustration on the aircraft on the option to Stockholm. “Unfortunately, one thing occurred inside him. At the starting, France could not reply to our assault. We make too many errors after which we throw away too many balls when we now have probabilities to tug away,” stated Patrick Grotzky angrily. denied, sophomore backup goaltender Remy Desbonnet (14 saves/almost 50 p.c saves) admitted that he “knocked our tooth out.” Goalkeeper Andreas Wolff – additionally very sturdy with 16 saves – added: “We made him a hero. He saved plenty of unfastened balls, particularly after the break in opposition to Grotzky, we may have taken it to 3. “France ought to match every thing into 60 minutes, not 40.”
National coach Alfred Gislason: “I’m proud that we performed for 40 minutes. The team made nice progress on this World Cup. But it’s unhappy that we could not end it effectively.” He additionally admitted that energy is a difficulty, “you have seen that with some gamers like Yuri Knorr.” The World Cup may also go down in historical past as an unfair and disorderly competitors attributable to the regime. With France having one other day to get well, Egypt won’t want to enter the subsequent recreation. “The undeniable fact that one has to journey greater than the different is a big further burden. And one other time without work is essential, particularly in a regime the place video games are performed each different day. That’s a part of the actuality,” Gislason stated.
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Now Egypt is ready as the subsequent activity. “We nonetheless have a bone to choose with them,” Wolff says, referring to the 2021 Olympic quarterfinals (26:31). “They’ve gotten stronger since then,” Gislason says, however says, “We’re going to do every thing we are able to to get the greatest out of the match.” For Wolff, “it’s necessary to depart the match with two wins. We had an important match and now we need to present that we are able to come again after some setbacks.” Christoph Steinert raised his head once more: “Now we’ll be shit for a night, after which we’ll rise up once more. We need to end fifth.”