Handball WC 2017 - France

[Sir Varga Sándor]

And a reply for the whole tournament until now.
I think the biggest favourites are Denmark, Germany and France. I think that for France maybe it will be a bit hard to win at home.
In A group for me Norway´s good performance and Poland´s bad was interesting(but i heard a lot of new name´s, so maybe that´s why they couldn´t get through).
The B group won easily Spain, there was for me a bit disappointed that neither Slovenia, Macedonia and Island could stop them. But i think that the 4 best teams of the group got through).
In group C the biggest favourite was Germany, and they won the group. Before the tournament i thought that maybe Croatia and we will play against them a good match. We only lost the match in the last 10 minutes, but Croatia also had the chance. We lost against Germany in the first half László Nagy, our biggest star so this tournament is for us from then more harder. But Xabate is a great trainer, and i hope that he will send us to the best 8. The three lower teams, Belarus, Chile and Saud-Arabia had the same chances for place 4.
In group D Denmark, Sweden and Qatar were all favourites, but Qatar played a bit low(but i think hat they lost also good players, such as Poland). Egypt had a good group stage, Sweden also(i can´t tell it about Denmark yet, because they will play against Qatar in 40 minutes). But for Denmark is the reality that they will win the group as 100%.
We Hungarian will play against Denmark if Belarus beats us, and against Sweden if we beat Belarus and Denmark beats Qatar.
It will be a difficult match, but it will be a great chance to win against a good team(we lost the match in the last 20 minutes against Germany and Croatia too).
Go HUNGARY! :flag_hu:

[Majstor Matt]

Battle for the final starts today!

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Belarus :flag_by: 27:25 :flag_hu: Hungary
We unexpectedly lost our last match in the group against Belarus. So we had one of the best teams, Denmark. We have only a small chance unfortunately, but i hope Xabate will solve this. Sweden would be much easier opponent. But if we lose, it would not be so big problem, good teams already fell out, like Iceland or Macedonia.

[Sir Varga Sándor]

Good news for us: Laci Nagy will play against Denmark.
Good luck boys

[AlbertoSab12]

Great game yesterday: :flag_br: 27-28:flag_ea: . We suffered more than predicted , the Brazilians played an excellent game, but the important thing is we are in quarterfinals. We await to Croatia or Egypt

[Majstor Matt]

Fantastic performance by Hungary, specially by their goalie Mikler, and the actual Olympic champion Denmark is out

[Sir Varga Sándor]

@Majstor-Matt

Hungary :flag_hu: 27:25 :flag_dk: Denmark
Sensation!
I think that it was our best game in the last two years.
Finally we had a good goalie, Mikler saved like in Veszprém, we had Nagy, who helped with being there, Jamali played also well, i can´t name a player who played bad.
Next game against Norway, maybe we can play as good against another Scandinavien team.
GO HUNGARY! :flag_hu:

[Mano Meneses.]

@AlbertoSab12

Congra to Spain

[mrtgll33_]

@AlbertoSab12 Great Game

[Majstor Matt]

Day with sensational results continues, Qatar knocks out European champion Germany! I hope at least we against Egypt will defend the honour of favourites and win :=)

[Majstor Matt]

Croatia :flag_hr: 21 v 19 :flag_eg: Egypt

Oh well, attacking wise this wasnt a grat game, but at least our defense did good job and we are in quarterfinals. Against Spain, if we want any chances, our attack will must be much much better. Lets go Croatia!!

[Majstor Matt]

All quarterfinalist are known and these are pairs.. one more step to be passed to get into the medal fight!

[Sir Varga Sándor]

@Majstor-Matt

What about a Croatia-Hungary semi-final?

[Majstor Matt]

@Sir-Varga-Sándor Let's hope so!

@vince13carter Of course there are many teams playing good handball nowadays, there are plenty of styles teams an adjust to, but let's be realistic, in last 5 or so years there are some teams that are slightly above others. And those teams are Denmark, France and Spain and they are always main candidates for medals and of course its always surprising to see them out early. Denmark was brilliant in group stage and was trashing everyone easilly while Hungary lost 3 games in group and of course Denmark was big favourite to win that one. Surelly a surprise. Qatar hasnt played great in this tournament so far as well, whie Germany was brilliant and Germany was only team that won 2 medals in 2016 on big competitions (Gold at Euro and Bronze at Rio), also Qatar doesnt have all those "bought" players anymore, many of those left only Capote and 2 or 3 more are left

[Majstor Matt]

@vince13carter Sure, I get what you are saying. I didnt said that results individually were sensations though, I said that day has sensational results - as both Olympic and European champions were knocked early on the same day

Same thing for our game with Spain. It wont be sensation, but if we win it will be a little surprise, as from everything we saw in tournament so far I must be realistic and admit that Spain is firm favourite in our match.

[Majstor Matt]

Norway is the first semifinalist! First semifinal of their history, congratz! 2 more hours and batle between Croatia and Spain starts and the winner of that match will paly Norway in semis! Lets go CROATIA!!!

[Babou94]

France Vs Sweden in the stadium Pierre Mauroy in Lille.
28 000 spectators

[Majstor Matt]

SPAIN HAS FALLEN!!! CROATIA IS IN THE SEMIFINAL!! D What a performance from our guys, really did not see this one coming, its like they were saving themselves for this match only! Norway, are you ready?!

[Majstor Matt]

Brilliant matches today all in all, we have 4 teams left battling fot the top of the world.

[Majstor Matt]

@vince13carter Thanks, good luck tonight. Would be awesome if your guys could make a surprise and knockout the hosts