Handball WC 2017 - France
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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!
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Battle for the final starts today!
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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. -
Good news for us: Laci Nagy will play against Denmark.
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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
“Lo malo de los que se creen en posesión de la verdad es que cuando tienen que demostrarlo no aciertan ni una.” Camilo José Cela
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Fantastic performance by Hungary, specially by their goalie Mikler, and the actual Olympic champion Denmark is out
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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.
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Congra to Spain
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@AlbertoSab12 Great Game
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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 :=) -
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!!
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All quarterfinalist are known and these are pairs.. one more step to be passed to get into the medal fight!
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What about a Croatia-Hungary semi-final?
,,Ez nem lehet kérdés, hogy hogy áll neki az ember: van-e már világbajnoki címe vagy nincs, aki sportoló, az mindent meg akar nyerni.´´ - Nagy Viktor, a férfi vízilabda válogatott kapusa és egyben példaképem.
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i don't see a sensations here, really. Germany and Denmark are fantastic teams and can beat any team for 10 goals on the good day; but lets be honest- Qatar bought/selected very interesting team and i mean, they really are a team! Good spirit, motive... Hungary also, I dont know what sensation are you talking about! They have incredible hardworking players in last 20 years (didn't follow that sport before), Pick&Fotex who are big handball names in Europe and few individuals who can make difference (as we could saw yesterday Lekai, former player in the club not far from me, Celje).
Quarters:
I think its not very easy to predict anything; lets say France from pair one. Best team in last 10 years, host team of a tournament... Slovenia & Qatar is gonna be a great battle. What I am scared about my nation, are fight abilities. In some part of a game, team must fight literally and not just play technical and nice looking handball.
Choatia from pair 3, I hope so. Nothing against Spain, they played fantastic against Slovenia in a group stage but I always find a favourite team in ex-Yugoslavia nations.
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@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
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@Majstor-Matt yes, I agree. Suprises yes, sensations- no. Sensation wuild be, I dont know... if Chile or Angola would do that, what Hungary and Qatar made it. See the difference?
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@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.
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Yes, I think also, Spain is favourite "on the paper", like France. For now, couldnt recognize team who would dominate in every game. Also Spain had big problems with rising handball nation Brasil and fact what happened to Denmark and Germany. Its very difficult to have perfect tournament; match in two days in average (sometimes two games in a row) , injuries and fact some nations dont have 14 but 8-9 players on highest level.
But on a good day, Croatia can beat anyone, mate. You know that well and I know. You have quality, talent and motive. There's a fantastic spirit and will to give 100% in a national shirt, which is perhaps Croatian biggest thing in every team sport. Just love this attitude. -
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!!!
