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Germany’s handball players want to end the tournament with a win tomorrow in the match for fifth place against Norway and take revenge. All the latest news on this in the live blog.
The game of the German national handball team for fifth place in the Handball World Championship against Norway is tomorrow in the live ticker on sportschau.de – ZDF shows the match at 1 p.m. live on TV.
Before the finals, Juri Knorr is third in the top scorer list with 49 goals. The ranking is led by Chilean Erwin Feuchtmann and Denmark’s Matthias Gisdel with 54 goals each. Germany’s playmaker could still grab a title – if he scores at least five goals more than Gisdel in the final.
Shortly before the final day, a little something to smile about in the strangest scenes of the Handball World Cup – including how DHB goalkeeper Andreas Wolff jumps the ball into the goal himself.
“We can show that we still have the strength to finish the tournament with a win. That would be a very strong performance from the lads,” said national coach Alfred Gislason before the game. To finish fifth in the World Cup, added goalkeeper Andreas Wolff, is definitely “a success”. At the last World Cup, the German men finished twelfth, in 2019 they finished fourth, in 2017 ninth, in 2015 seventh.
The Norwegians were one of the top contenders for the World Championship title and actually already had their sights set on reaching the semi-finals. With the final siren, however, they conceded the equalizer against Spain after an unnecessary loss of the ball and then had to admit defeat again extremely unluckily after two extra hours. It was the only defeat for the team around superstar Sander Sagosen, who are again favorites against DHB.
Travel chaos, no planning security and many empty seats. Away from the sport, the Handball World Cup has plenty of room for improvement – commented Sportschau reporter Robin Tillenburg.
In the main round, the DHB team had won the group against Norway in the last game. After an offensively very good first half, the team of national coach Alfred Gislason let up against the favorites in terms of finishing and often failed because of the strong goalkeeper Torbjorn Bergerud.
In the games that followed against France and Egypt, too, the tired-looking team collapsed after a good performance. It should be different this time.
After the German team was eliminated by France in the quarter-finals, they clinched a trembling victory after extra time against Egypt in the first placement game. This qualified them for the fifth place match against Norway. Egypt plays against Hungary for seventh place.