Victorious Wednesday of Sweden, the blue will face Denmark Friday for a place in the final, where they could find Norway.
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Seven successes in as many games. For the moment, the French Handball team carries out a fault in the Spanish Worldwide. Never had the tricolors had succeeded such a performance in a great international appointment. After their convincing victory against Sweden (31-16), Wednesday, December 15, the Olympic champions prepare to face Denmark on Friday, which validated on Tuesday his ticket for the semi-finals against Brazil (30-25) and who will benefit. a day of additional recovery.
This day more is far from being trivial for players who have been chaining the meetings every other day since the beginning of the competition and who will play Friday in Granollers, near Barcelona, their eighth game in two weeks. If the Bleues pass this tour, they should find the Norwegian final, which have been easily gotten on Wednesday of the Russians (34-28). Norway seems superior to Spain, winner of Germany 26 to 21 in shift, but who has benefited from a clély table as an organizing country.
Sweden, Denmark, Norway … For France, the path to a new world title, which would be the third in its history after the corporation of 2003 and 2017, therefore goes by Scandinavia. Which is not a surprise, so much it is used to crossing the Nordic countries in the final phases of major international competitions. Since the elimination of Brazil, all remaining teams are derived from the old continent.
“more creative, more unpredictable”
“We know them by heart. We often meet them in the Champions League and in international matches”, confirms the experienced Beatrice Edwige, 33, the Blue Pivot. Over the past decade, these teams have often managed to France.
“The Scandinavians are well organized, they are passed to a millimeter, but their game is stereotyped. A grain of sand can deregulate them. The French are more creative, more unpredictable. And they know how to play them,” says Old International Nodjiam Myaro, who runs the French Women’s Handball League (LFH).
A shared analysis by Cleopatra Darleux, the guardian of the blue: “The Nordic do not like to play against France because they know that we defend hard. We do not hesitate to return to them in, to hurt them”, she said.
Impressive Defense Since the beginning of the tournament, blue must continue to improve their effectiveness in attack to hope to get a third world title. On this plan, they experienced a growing tournament start. Regarding shots by far, their statistics against Angola (1/7) and Slovenia (0/7) were pitiful. Faced with Serbia, the half-center Thank Zaadi seemed isolated at the tip of the attack.
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