World Handball: jostled, but victorious Serbs, blue qualified for quarterfinals

France beat Serbia on Saturday 22-19 at the end of the suspense. Monday, the outcome of the last game of the main tour against Russia will determine the first place of the group.

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At the end of an uncertain meeting until the end, where it has often been borne in attack, the French Women’s Handball team beat Serbia (22-19) on Saturday 11 December, For his second game of the main tour of the Spanish World. She qualified for the quarterfinals of the competition. The match of Monday, December 13 against Russia will only serve to determine the first place of the group.

In the lineage of their previous games, the blue people have entered the meeting, with a defense of iron and fast counter-attacks, taken by an excellent Grace Zaadi. But after a quarter of an hour, the machine has stopped. In the last quarter of the first half, France has crossed a large air hole, placing a severe 6-0.

The Serbian Guardian Jovana Risovic multiplied the parades and reduced the French attackers to impotence. The Pivot Marija Petrovic and the back Jovana Stoiljkovic made the powder in a distance, and when they were blocked in the center, Serb winnings managed to score in mouse holes on the sides, despite a new service. XXL of the French guardian, Laura Glauser.

After the break, however, the tricolors resumed the control of the match, marking four goals in a row and ironing in front of the bulletin board. But the Serbs were going to sell their skin and a new digital inferiority, following a fault of Chloe Valentini, allowed them to pick up the score. The suite was a mano in Mano, and the match rose in intensity over the minutes.

The France team seemed able to take over, but the blue attackers often stared at a Jovana Risovic of the big nights in the Serbian cages. The players went for a shot, and the atmosphere became irregular in the Palace of Sports of Granollers, where the French supporters gave voice. Ten minutes from the end, equality was perfect (17-17) and total uncertainty.

4 minutes from the final whistle, a goal against Meline Nocandy allowed France to iron before the score (19-18). A superb stop of the Darleux Cleopatra guard on a jet at the 7 meters, then a shot with the goal transformed by Grace Zaadi, finally allowed the French to detach themselves (20-18) three minutes from the end.

The revenge of the Olympic Games final

The blue coach, Olivier Krumbholtz asked for a dead time at 1 minute from the end. In the stride, a goal of the pivot Pauletta Foppa, a minute from the end, allowed the French to break the nail. A “PASTIS” (a stop without releasing the balloon) from Cleopatra Darleux to 20 seconds of the end definitively seal the outcome of the meeting. The France team finally established 22 to 19, at the end of the suspense.

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