Day III IHF Spain 2021 - Majestic Slovenia steals the show as France was slow off the mark

 

France – Angola

After 4'30 Angola leads 0-1 thanks to their goalie

And 1-2 after six mins owing to a 7-meter throw

A couple of turnovers by both teams

Toublanc wing play makes it 3-2 on 10 mins

Powerful line play by Angola drawing level and France again a player short

We saw again Dominique and Philippe on 11 mins

Laura slips and the ball gets under knees 5-5 13’

Edwige is in pain

6-6 half way through the first half

Half empty Granollers

France rushing their shots whilst on a numerical advantage

A 6-0 rotation in defence

Superb Glauser save 18’

Her Angolan counterpart does brilliantly as well and Angola leads 7-8 on 20 mins

Over 600 on the live chat

Valentine scores from a brilliant long pass 10-8 23’

France too greedy looking for the spectacular a minute later

Time chosen for a time-out by Angola

Zaadi lofted ball as France intercepts 12-8 25’40

Valentine finds the right angle to make a 5-goal lead seconds later

Pascual stops the drought for Angola as scoreline reads 13-9 with less than 2 mins before the interval

Fonseca deserves more than 2 minutes. That was extremely dangerous

Goal for Angola not to be allowed as time had lapsed 13-9

The media zone hardly changed. Just Covid guidelines.

The speaker speaks in Catalan

The game was stopped by the volunteer.

On 31’30 keeper Alberto produces a fine save

Toublanc lofted goal restores the 5-goal lead 33’30 15-10

The volunteer drops the ball to Laura in such a way that she dropped the ball as well

Foppa perforates the Angolan defence 16-10 two minutes later

Alberto saves as Kassoma gets her marching orders for 2 minutes

Quick thinking and empty goal 17-10 on 38 minutes

Bizarre two minutes combined a 7-meter throw. That’s clearly a helping hand to Angola because there is no rationale for it 17-11 a minute later

Alberto reacts quickly and scores towards the empty 17-12 within seconds

Machado scores a powerful shot 18-13 on 41 minutes

Wing play by Angola and lovely save by Laura

Edwige may have recovered. She limps off but she scored an easy one.

Angola reduces the arrears 20-14 43’20

Angola now plays the empty goal strategy even if there is no 2 min. I do not like this.

And the post disliked it as well!

With fourteen minutes left its now 23-14 to France

Horacek 7-meter is saved by Alberto. Its now 23-16 and two mins to Valentini

Venancio again gets her two minutes.

Brilliant save by Laura 49’

Granier overlap and its 24-16 thirty seconds later

Two consecutive Alison Pineau lofted balls as Alberto takes her time to get back in goal

It’s a 10-goal lead with nine minutes left

Laura has a 50% saving rate

Nocandy wipes the ball to the top and its 27-16 53’30

Granier lofted ball makes it 28-17 with just over six minutes left

Alison Pineau missed her third lofted ball from her side.

Good line play by Angola 28-18 56’

Beautifully crafted Flippes shot 29-18 seconds later

As soon as France trying a 5-1 and Angola puts away their number 19

Laura misses the empty net.

Final score 30-20

 

Montenegro - Slovenia

whilst Serbia - Poland

Ana Gros on the bench, only used in the attack

1-1 within the first thirty seconds

2-2 in three minutes

Whilst still 0-0 Serbia Poland

Serbian Janjusevic scores the first goal after almost 4 minutes

Beautiful number four for Montenegro 4-3 6’

And its 2-0 for Serbia 6’

Serbia leading 3-1 after 7’

Montenegro one player short and still get the attacking foul off Slovenia

Slovenia now leads 5-4 and Serbia leads 5-2 with ten minutes played

Poland reduces the arrears 5-4 whilst Slovenia scores with empty goal 4-7

Stoilkovic makes it 8-5 to Serbia on the counter

Pandzic saves the Montenegro penalty 13’30

Omoregie beautiful simple shot 4-8 on 15 mins

Beganovic is quicker to react and its now a 5-goal deficit for Montenegro with eighteen minutes gone

The 6-0 defence from Serbia annihilates the Polish attacks: 10-7 to Serbia 18’

Its becoming a bit too easy for Stanko’s Slovenia 5-12 21’

Poland stays afloat as only trailing 12-9 21’

Ana Gros superb 94km/h shot makes it 6-13 22’30

Grbic reply is quite astonishing and as powerful 7-13 23’10

Good Serbian combination putting them 3 up 14-11 23’

Pandzic lovely save but Montenegro keeps the possession

Debatable attacking foul against Montenegro

Montenegro only managed 8 goals in 27 minutes.

Stoilkjovic increases Serbia’s lead 15-12 26’40

Granollers cheers for Montenegro

Despite a lady down Serbia now leads 16-12

Ana Gros ensures her 7-meter throw makes it the perfect 8-16

Whilst Serbia leads 16-13 against Poland

Six minutes missed as talking to parents

Serbia extends their lead 19-13 whilst Slovenia remains in control 12-21

Balsam bounce back ability 19-16 to Serbia now 40’

Slovenia 5-1 defence does not last long as Ana Gros gets a 2-min suspension

Balsam missed the penalty though so it remains 20-17 to Serbia 43’

Slovenia in cruise control 14-25 43’

Only one in it with Poland now trailing 20-19

Pandzic stunning save but Slovenia attack does not lead to anything

Mugosa reduces the onslaught 16-27 after over a 7 min drought with 8 minutes left

Stoiljkovic 7-meter throw makes it 23- 21 to Serbia with 8 minutes left

Too many mistakes by Poland at a crucial time and Nosek has a 2-minute suspension

Stoilkjovic crucially scores number 24 24-21 57’30

90 seconds left and Serbia now leads 25-21 and that was the final score

Slovenia easy and impressive win 18-28