Spain beat the dangerous and similar Balkan team with an amazing choral performance that seals its presence among the top eight in the world
Spain is already in the quarter-finals of the Handball World Cup. This team, accustomed to the demand for success through the front door, achieved its minimum goal, with a victory as valuable as it was creditable against the ever-dangerous Slovenia, that kind of sister who sometimes plays like angels and is only one more step on the competitive level to reach to be the best in major tournaments.
Coincidentally, the Balkan team has been a kind of mirror for Hispanics in recent years. Few teams bet so resolutely on the magic of the central defenders, the continuity game and the tactical board as the Spaniards and the Slovenians, making their duels a kind of mirror game in which common virtues overlap and are very difficult to distinguish. .
It involved a certain game of chess between the scripts of Jordi Ribera and the old acquaintance Uros Zorman, former player of Ciudad Real and Ademar, with Bombac and Casado as virtuosos in the direction of the game. From the start, however, the centers of defense imposed their law, many kilos to Mackovsev and Blagotinsek in Slovenia and more legs to Gideon Guardiola and Peciña in Spain. The two towers of the Spanish wall were impregnable at the beginning and the dizziness on the counter-attack and the success of Álex Dujshebaev in the shot did the rest to create the first significant advantages (3-7).
Lesjak, Kodrin (2), Blagotinsek (1), Janc (5), Mackovsek (3), Bombac (3) and Dolenec (7) -starting seven-. Baznik (ps.), Mazej, Horzen, Gaber (1), Novak (1), Makuc, Ovnicek (2), Vlah (1) and Cehte.
Pérez de Vargas, Ángel Fernández (1), Gideón Guardiola (1), Peciña, Odriozola (6), Dani Dujshebaev (5) and Casado (3) – from seven. Corrales (PS), Dani Fernández, Figueras (4), Ferran Solé (4), Cañellas (1), Sánchez-Migallón, Valera (2), Maqueda (1) and Álex Dujshebaev (3).
The Balkan team got into trouble when the figure of goalkeeper Urban Lesjak showed up. The Macedonian Pelister goalkeeper went on until he amassed six saves, three of them in the same game, and Slovenia tied the game in the blink of an eye with a 4-0 run that forced Ribera’s timeout.
The teacher’s attention activated Spain’s legs on defense, allowing them to steal the ball and run away, using the staggering Kauldi Odriozola as a stiletto. Despite everything, equality continued to prevail as the Spanish coach refreshed the entire first line with Cañellas, Pol Valera and Maqueda. Granollers centre-back, an emergency substitute due to Ian Tarrafeta’s injury, came into the picture in remarkable fashion, giving Spain minimal advantages, but Mackovsek and Bombac, Slovenian guides in attack, were joined by the speedy Ovnicek, another resource in de Zorman’s dynamic offensive system that kept the score tied at halftime (15-15).
The exchange of blows continued after the break, with Barça’s Blaz Janc now taking the Slovenian goal weight. Like Spain, Slovenia also has a choral character in the filmmaking facet. The Spanish team needed another step in terms of their defensive intensity and once they gave it they found revenue as they surprised Slovenia with a goalkeeper player and Ferran Solé and Maqueda scored on an empty goal. Small partial, but decisive to take the initiative on the scoreboard with a minimal but important income with two goals (20-22).
The Hispanics franchised the party. The saves of Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas appeared, the passes to the wingers, the connection with Figueras in the pivot and the launches of Dani Dujshebaev and Agustín Casado. A huge repertoire that Slovenia could no longer resist. Spain attacked in the last ten minutes with a substantial five-goal lead (21-26) and left their rival no option.
Capital triumph in the match that Spain had engraved in red on its road map prior to the final stage. The two points seal their presence among the top eight in the World Cup, a goal achieved in thirteen of the last fourteen editions. The game against France that closes the main round will only decide first and second place in the group, but it will be an excellent test bench before we say goodbye to Krakow and head to Stockholm, where the world’s biggest teams will face each other record. life or death.
Source: La Verdad
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