Hispanics find no reward for their reaction in the second half

Spain closed its performance in the EHF Euro Cup with a defeat against Germany by 32-31

Jordi Ribera’s men paid for the 20-11 score in the first half, unable to contain Juri Knorr’s central defender

The Spanish handball team closed its performance in the EHF EuroCup with a defeat, when they fell this Sunday 32-31 against Germanyin a match in which the “Hispanics” were not enough with the impressive reaction they staged in the second half to compensate for the authentic shipwreck they experienced in the first half.

Especially in defence, as reflected by the nine goals behind (20-11) with which Jordi Ribera’s men arrived at half-time, unable to contain the center-back at any time Jury Knorrauthor of thirteen targets.

Although only three of them in the second period, in which the Spanish team, clinging to the stops of Gonzalo Perez de Vargashe increased his defensive intensity until he handcuffed the German team, which saw its lead reduced to two goals (27-25) with eleven minutes to go.

A time when the German goalkeeper Andreas Wolff With his interventions, he prevented the comeback of the Spanish team, which despite the final defeat (32-31) seemed to finish with better feelings than a German team, unable to understand the difficulties they suffered in the second half.

Little or nothing resembled the energetic Spanish team that dreamed of the feat in the second half with the unknown team, especially in defense, which was completely dismasted by the German team in the first thirty minutes of play. Defensive weakness that the German center-back did not miss Jury Knorr to endorse the excellent sensations that he already left in the last World Cup in Poland and Sweden, in which the player from Rhein-Neckar Lowen he was awarded as the best young man.

Although it is true that Knorr, who went through the lower categories of the barca, enjoyed all possible facilities from the Spanish defense to bring out all its extensive catalog of resources. Neither the two time-outs that Jordi Ribera was forced to request, nor the constant changes of names in the axis of the defense served to Spain to contain Knorrwho did not miss any of the ten shots, five of them from penalties, that he attempted in the first half.

When the Spanish defense awaited him on the six-meter line, the German player hammered the “Hispanos” goal with his eight-meter shots, and when the Spanish defenders came into contact, jur Knorr He demonstrated his ability to assist the pivot Johannes gollayour best partner.

An insoluble problem for the Spanish team that seemed doomed to concede a resounding and painful defeat on their visit to Berlin after closing the first half down nine goals (20-11). However, everything changed in the second half, in which the “Hispanics”, clinging to the stops of Gonzalo Perez de Vargaswhich replaced sergey hernandezwas controlling more and more of a Jury Knorrwho took ten minutes to score his first goal in the second half.

A problem to which the expulsion at 47 minutes was added due to three exclusions from the pivot Johannes golla, the other great reference of the German team and that had prevented the collapse of the German team in the second half. When everything seemed on track for the comeback of the “Hispanos”, who were only two goals away (27-25) with eleven minutes remaining, the figure of the German goalkeeper emerged Andreas Wolffwho with his interventions left the reaction of the Spanish team without a prize (32-31).