The German handball players left the World Cup in the quarter -finals. The decisive goal fell four seconds before the end. The DHB team in individual criticism.
Nils Kögler reports from Oslo
The decisive goal was scored four seconds before the end: 31:30 for Portugal’s national handball team-that was the final result of the quarter-finals of the World Cup against Germany.
Shortly afterwards, Andreas Wolff sagged at the goal post, then he hammered on the hall floor with both fists. The goalkeeper titanium of the selection of the German Handball Association could not be obtained after the crime thriller without a happy ending.
“It is very bitter for the boys that after this struggle and this commitment they cannot get on at the last second,” said Gislason at the ARD microphone. Captain Johannes Golla stated: “In the end it is little things.”
Half a year after the Olympic silver coup, the German team offered a very changeable performance in front of 7,457 spectators in the Unity Arena. The DHB selection came back after a four-goal deficit, but in the final phase of the regular season, it missed a decisive factor despite some big opportunities. Portugal showed the better nerves and moved into a World Cup semi-final for the first time.
Goalkeeper Wolff kept his team in the game with 21 often spectacular parades. The safe seven -meter shooter Lukas Zerbe scored nine times for a German team that was rarely accessed against the nimble southern Europeans in defense and developed too little ideas and punch over long stretches of the game. You can read the T-online individual criticism here or up in the photo show.