Day VIII Spain 2021 Trepidant voices on the Main Round first outings

All about team spirit and astute tactics ! This is Day VIII of Spain 2021 She Loves Handball

First day of Presidents Cup and Main Round outings.

Czech Republic Korea 13-20 half time

Croatia - Argentina 12-14 half time

Slovakia vs Tunisia 25-18 with 15 mins left

Bizikova is on her own on the wing 27-20

Trunkova line play is thunderous truncating each and every inch of space 28-21 49’

Hamrouni rallies to the counter 29-22 52’

Pocsikova lofted ball is very clever 30-23 55’

Rezgui fights for the rebound and gets it on the top corner 30-24 56’

7-meter for Croatia and its saved

Ben Abdalah gets number 26

There is a 7-meter but the clock is not stopped

Slovakia wins 31-27 in Lliria

Czech team aims at reducing the arrears and its 17-22 on 39 mins

But Korea’s shooting causes a bit of angst and its 19-24 on 43 mins

In ten minutes in the second half 3-1 for Croatia in a tight encounter

Argentinean 7-meter is saved

Time out for Korea as scoreline is now 21-24

Croatia keeper is sent off but resolute Croatia drawing level at 16 a player short

Suddenly goals are flowing by as it reads 17 to 16 for Argentina 42’

Easy shot for Argentina 17-18 44’

Song on song on the wing makes it 22-26, Korea leading by 4 with 11 mins left on the clock

Korea suddenly resurgent 22-27

Lofted wing goal by Bubic drawing at 19 46’

Korean keeper keeps the Czech attacks at bay.

Good Argentinean defence and Argentina has now a 2-goal lead 19-21 49’

Kordovska perforates the Korean defence 23-28 52’

Jo gets an interesting call by the refs. Lee scores the resulting 7-meter 23-29 53’45

Argentina looking good to go with an upset but also are missing easy chances

Korea are lucky to get the ball back

Big miss for Argentina and punishment on the wing by Croatia: 21 a piece 52’

Korean keeper saves a key 7-meter throw

2 mins left and Korea leads by 7

Croatia now leads by 1 thanks to a crucial 7-meter throw 54’

OH scores. OH impressive Korea. 26-32 final score.

Attacking foul by Argentina and Croatia reaps the benefits 23-21 55’

Sudden panic by Argentina now trailing by 4  25-21 with 2.5 minutes left

EHF bronze medallists Croatia are staying afloat and responding well to the manager’s instructions 27-22 59’ shouts of joy

The faltering Argentinean could have a lot of regrets. Hence the Croatian shouts of joy.

Germany unable to score against Congo for the first 3’48 minutes at least

Austrian manager is dejected as Austria is short-handed and trailing by 3 within the first three minutes

After 4’28 minutes Austria reduces the arrears to 3-1

Grijseels easily dispatches the7-meter throw

Interruption due to onboarding issues 10-4 Germany and Brazil 13-7 in front

Germany two player down and still managing to get very dangerous.

Germany now leading 13-5 whereas Austria still trailing 15-11

Austrian keeper saves and Austria has 2 in it 15-13 26’

Its now 15-6 on 27 minutes

15-7 to Germany at the break

Cardoso spin shot goes wide

Huge shot from distance by Austria to level it at 15 going into the break.

Good flexibility on the counter and two mins in 16-7

Well executed lofted ball by Congo 16-9 34’

Two empty goals and Brazil now in front 18-17 33’

Lovely Stolle high jump goal 19-11 40’

Another empty goal for Brazil and Brazil now leading by 2 22-20 38’

De Paula low shot gets the Austrian keeper wrong footed 23-21

Brazil consolidates their lead 25-21 with Guariero’s goal. However, energetic Austrian players get one back 41’

Lovely play by Congo 21-13 45’

Cooking interruption

With a 8-goal lead the pendulum has swung Brazil way 47’

Dorson speedily dispatches 22-16 50’

Good low shot by Diagouraga and the deficit is only 23-17 52’

Schindler gives Austria a bit of hope with goal number 26 33-26 53’

But Araujo says No scoring with a huge angle: 34-26 54’

Diagouraga hammers the 7-meter throw 26-18 55’

They could have let Schulze goal!

Beautiful effort by Kovacs 35-28 56’

Superb combination by Austria but with just less than 2 mins left and trailing by six

Lovely lofted counter attack followed by a Fernandes shot 38-30

Germany wins in their stride 29-18 whilst Brazil prevails 38-31 in Torrevieja

22 Congolese turnovers!

Denmark vs Hungary whilst Spain vs Japan now !

Jennifer Guttierez injures the Japanese keeper as she scores Spain’s first

Alexandrina scores on the counter number two

Lovely third goal for Spain

Denmark struggling with the agile Magyar defence.

Zacsik scores brilliantly 0-2 4’

Ria Ria Hungaria

Vamos was a junior winner with Hungary

Denmark eventually finds down the middle an opportunity to reduce the deficit 2-1 6’

Nagata has a soft spot for lofted line play goals 4-2 6’

Hafra squeezed it through 3-1

Losing part of the match owing to a call.

Bordas enjoys a lovely pass in the middle 3-5 9’

Reinhardt saves brilliantly from the 7-meter throw

Hojlund makes herself known by scoring a fine goal 4-5 11’

Lukacs scores an easy one hanging for a while her team having benefited from an unusual call from the refs 4-7 13’

Spain beaten by a wing play goal and a lofted ball by Matsumoto 8-6 13’25

Great save by Silvia

Denmark drawing at 7 sixteen minutes gone

Hansen goes alongside the Hungarian defence and her shot goes towards the opposing post 8-7 17’

Jennifer gives a bit of relief to Spain 9-6 15’20

Strange 2-min against Jennifer!

Spain paying the heavy price 9-8 16’40

Kacsor cleverly smothered under Reinhardt leg 10-9 19’

Hungary not framing very well their shots and Denmark leading by 2 11-9 20’

Spain now losing by 1 9-10 18’

Pedersen extends the lead to 3 12-9 21’

Silvia Navarro missed the empty goal by a whisker.

Its 10 a piece with 21 minutes played

Quick thinking on empty goal 11-10 to Spain 23’20

Pedersen goes with a wide angle having benefited from her teammate sucking the defence 14-10 27’

Rodriguez finds a way through to draw at 13 26’40

Matsumoto is a tsunami to Spain 13-14 27’

Planeta fumbles it and Denmark leading 15-11 at the break.

Nakayama scores a debatable 7-meter a minute before the buzzer 14-15

15-15 at half time

Haucsted has a pretty strong arm on top of her defence reputation 16-12 31’

Jorgensen taking the mickey with her lofted 7-meter throw 18-12 34’

Kovacs fizzles with that ball to make it 19-14 36’

Echeverria puts Spain 2 up 18-16 36’40

Stupid 2 mins conceded by Japan = wrong substitution

And yet they are drawing at 19 41’45

Kacsor high jump reduces the arrears 22-16 44’

Alexandrina wasted an opportunity to go two up hitting the woodwork: it remains 20-19 43’

Echevarria caught the right option on the front post 21-19 44’

46% save rate for Reinhardt with 13 minutes left on the clock

Powerful drive by Alexandrina getting top corner 22-20 47’

Another save on Alexandrina as she had intercepted

Jensen puts Hungary away with number 25. Denmark now leading by 9 with just over 9 minutes left

Stronger Spanish defence

Alexandrina gets the better of the Japanese defence 24-21 50’

Cheeky Friis brings number 27 as a 5-nil in Denmark’s favour

Vamos 7-meter throw to the rescue 27-17 53’

The clock is not stopped !

Finally empty goal by Hungary 27-18 55’

Aizawa reduces the deficit on a 7-meter 25-22 54’

A deflected Toth goal 28-19 57’

Jorgensen puts the 10-goal lead back with one minute left on the clock

In the meantime, Spain leads by 3 with just under 3 minutes left

Denmark easy win 30-19 thanks to good team spirit and great tactics.

 Beautiful Alexandrina goal 28-24 58’35

Spain win 28-26 in Torrevieja