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The Polish team
Belarus surprised
On Tuesday we met all the teams that entered the Group I Championship. With four points were there, Poland and Norway, the two have a proven France and Croatia with zero achievements of this phase will begin Belarus and Macedonia. In the second group, four points have a proven Denmark and Spain, two Germany and Russia, and zero compete Hungary and Sweden.
In this phase, the system will continue to force the game, each with everyone, but with the caveat that they played together teams that on This tournament has not yet met. This means that the top three in Group A will face the top three from group B, a similar situation will be when the best teams from groups C and D.
In the group stage we had a few surprises. The biggest of them made Belarus, beating Iceland 39:38 favored. In the final analysis, this win was enough to our eastern neighbors to advance to the next phase, which will be one of the contenders Polish national team. Few counting on the fact that Belarusians moving forward.
The fact that the tournament fell off Montenegro and Serbia there was no surprise. Many experts have pointed these as the weakest team in group A and D. As for Slovenia, it was no longer such compliance. Slovenians got to the group of death, where he competed from: Spain, Sweden and Germany. Although it is one of the largest handballowych nation, but the Swedes and Germans had their own problems before the tournament and it was hoped that Slovenia will be able to fight with them. Slovenians made a surprise, a draw with a team from Spain, and were even close to victory in this match. That was all he allowed them rivals, and one point were ranked in last place in group C.
Who is the favorite?
Before the European Championship biggest favorite to win a medal were the French. Les Experts, however, lost the Polish 25:31 at the end of the group stage and had to come to terms with the fact that the next round will take only two points. This puts them up against the wall, because to be certain of promotion to the semifinals, they must win three matches. Of course, it is not excluded that to achieve this goal will suffice them two victories, but in that case they would have to watch the other and hope for favorable results in other matches Group I.
After a fantastic match and win with France had increased stocks of Poles, which is likely to be happy enough with two wins in three games. Probably because there is a variant in which France to win three matches Norway win two, suffering defeat of defending champions and the Poles also THEIR two victories, losing to Norway. Then, three teams will have eight points and reaching the semi-finals will be decided by a small table between them.
Norway will have great difficulties to enter the top four, because your way is to host the tournament, as well as the French, who admittedly lost with white and red, but they are still a strong team.
Do not forget the Croats, who, despite unsuccessful for them the World Cup in Qatar have not forgotten how to play handball. I kept the core team are the great players from Domagoj Duvnjakiem at the helm. The semi-final will be hard for them, but at any moment can bar the way for others to do this.
The group the second from pole compete Spain and Denmark, which for several years are always strictly among the contenders for medals. Just before ME Spaniards admired a great disposition. After ograniu Germans in the style of the place became the favorite to play in the final. Knocked with Slovenia slightly dampen the enthusiasm.
Danes had simply done his. They won three matches in the group and promoted without any major problems. Rivals tried to put them, but the Scandinavians have such a strong and balanced composition that even weaker disposition in the match against Montenegro did not hinder them in relation set victories.
In this group may try to surprise Russia and Germany. Both teams began the tournament favorites defeats in their groups, but then won two times, presenting a nice eye handball. Sborna has shaped staff, and our western neighbors are doing remarkably well, despite a few injuries that have weakened their team just before ME. Young players who chose Dagur Sigurdsson, may not yet stand on the podium during the ongoing in Poland tournament, but in previous matches showed up with a pretty good hand and you can see that Germany will have the use of such handball players like Christian Dissinger, Andreas Wolff or Rune Dahmke.
Hungarians and Swedes had problems in the first stage of the tournament, they will have it in the second. Maybe they can make a surprise, tear off someone point, but rather no longer play a significant role during the matches in Wroclaw.
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