IHF Egypt 21 - Day IV Austria - France Match impressions

 

Austria – France

Preliminary Round 16 January 2021

The Marseillaise anthem rings awkward. To such extent that I stumbled. Unable to sing.

I have the telephone on top of the PC both logged on IHF youtube

Is there a new rule to let the time run when it’s a penalty? Time we lost near the end.

Paul only picks the games he wants really.

I do not like the empty goal thing

Tournat shows what he can do.

No defence from the French side !

Guigou misses the penalty. Annoying.

Screening move. Interesting one by Austria.

And now Bauer saves from Guigou !

I like when Romain scores. He speaks his mind. He is equally a nice professional.

 Di Panda is not really fitting well. Acquevillo would be a better idea.

Short-handed team periods are a double-edged sword.

Paul shows off with his stats library. Although he tends to tell the same things all over again – name of club and number of goals etc

Austrian players are doing the football antics, asking for inexistent fouls

Fivers players are hammering with two thundering shots and Weber annoyingly finds the right angle with the outside shoulder

Again Di Panda missed his counter-attack move.

Ouf Luka scores despite a tamed shot

The Austrians are falling over just to get people sent off! It’s so obvious.

Schmid sends a thundering shot and scores his first for Austria

Acquevillo scores. USAM boy! Ah ha!

Paul keeps saying not a commanding lead and the others remonstrating

Cheeky Guigou scores his looping penalty.

Wagner again gets ahead of Di Panda. Annoying.

Remili likes to interject during the time out.

Bad time management when the time ran out

Half time struck Austria 13 - France 17

Great pass to Fabregas on his own

Descat this time could not miss after a missed Kempe by Austria

What a great move with line player. The old way! Loved it Its now 16-22

But then we fumbled and conceded a counter-attack by a line player.

Some time generosity is not the way forward. Looking for the perfect pass.

I had noticed Paul’s country mix-up. Shows our beloved Paul is close to perfect because he corrects himself almost immediately.

Wonderful Gerard throw. But I hate this empty goal rule. Especially if you are not short-handed.

Porte finds the first post to secure an 18 – 26 advantage.

I do not like this casual attitude.

Again, Austria does empty goal with no short-handed requirement

Acquevillo hesitated and missed the chance to have a go.

Karabatic scored but Stevanovic powerfully replied 21- 27

Great jump by JJA and it’s 22-29 now

Valentin almost got to the ball for him.

Soft two mins and deftly done by Valou on the same post

Ah GOSH. What a miss by Descat. Opening too much on his right side. Still 22-30 with 10 mins left.

The Austrian winger moved his feet, the penalty should have been cancelled out.

Refs are firing two mins for hardly anything now !

Fabregas on a faulty substitution. Sadly.

And a call on the phone means the phone is behind and now it’s 25-31

And the resolution is not as good as a result.

Neuhold scores an annoying goal 26-31 with 4 mins left

I said 28-33, did I not! Furious that the software said 34!

Descat scored number 34. How bizarre!

Score number 35 by Tournat with 30 seconds left!!!! No regrets then.

Final score Austria 28 France 35