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Quarter-finals of the Handball World Cup: Germany meets the surprise team of the tournament. The focus is on a couple of brothers. Juri Knorr is fit again. All news about the DHB team in the live blog.
7:06 p.m.
DHB team prepared for Costa brothers
Of course, the German handball players have already looked at videos of the Portuguese and considered an antidote against the Costas. “We have already made a few agreements in the defense of how we want to get the two brothers under control,” said Lukas Mertens on Tuesday. “The defense system, as we want to go on it, the walking paths – we discussed that.”
Captain Johannes Golla should be particularly challenged as a defense chief. “We will do everything to make you move as freely as you were allowed to play in the past games,” said Golla.
6:16 p.m.
Francisco Costa – The “Gidsel of Portugal”
Almost everything revolves around you: Francisco and Martim Costa. “The best brothers in current world handball,” said ARD-Co commentator Johannes Bitter in the Sportschau-Podcast “Handball on 1”. “They get on blindly, play an outstanding Champions League season at Sporting Lisbon and are still damn young.”
Martim is 22 years old, Francisco is 19. Together they scored 69 from Portugal’s 209 goals in the previous tournament. Especially the younger brother, called “Kiko”, is considered a child prodigy. For sports show expert Dominik Klein, Francisco Costa is the “Gidsel of Portugal: plays on the right in the back, incredibly good in one one against one, breaks through again and again, plays very clever, sometimes appears on the left – he can do what he wants. “
5:05 p.m.
Portugal in the flow
Respect for the southern Europeans is high in the German camp. The Portuguese around the strong Costa brothers Francisco and Martim-so far only die-hard fans-qualified for the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time and are now sending themselves to conquering the handball world. The fact that three heavyweights were cleared with the European Championships of Sweden, the two-time World Cup champion Spain and co-host in Norway in the main round, speaks for itself.
“You have maximum self-confidence, a good flow in the game and it will be a difficult challenge for us,” says DHB captain Johannes Golla.
4:23 p.m.
Welcome!
With the recovering playmaker Juri Knorr again, the German handball players want to move into the World Cup semi-final. In Oslo, Alfred Gislason’s team meets the surprise team from Portugal in the quarter -finals. The DHB players have to pay particular attention to the Costa brothers Francisco and Martim if they want to make it under the top four teams in the world for the third time. Throwing off is at 8:30 p.m. (live in the first and in stream on sportschau.de).