The German national handball team said goodbye to the European Championships with a win. In the narrow win against Russia, however, two stars didn’t really know how to impress. The individual criticism.
Germany’s handball players leave the European Championship with a win. In the final of the main round against Russia, the DHB team celebrated a tight, hard-fought 30:29 victory.
After the dream of the semi-finals had burst prematurely, Germany started the last duel in Bratislava with self-confidence. The offensive against Sweden, which was still prone to errors, was very accurate and built up a comfortable four-goal lead.
But the team of national coach Alfred Gislason could not maintain the level of performance in the long term, allowing Russia to catch up. Especially in the final quarter of an hour, there was an enormous drop in pressure among the DHB stars.
Gislason also registered that and acknowledged it with loud nagging on the sidelines. This is probably one of the reasons why all the players pulled themselves together and decided the game with their last own attack.
You can read in our individual review here or in the photo show attached above which two national players were nevertheless punished with a smooth five in the conciliatory EM conclusion.
