The DHB team celebrates a winning victory at the end of the World Cup. Three young stars are particularly convincing. The individual criticism.
Germany’s handball players have thrown themselves warmly despite persistent personnel problems with a canter victory for the hot World Cup phase. The team of national coach Alfred Gislason, which was already qualified for the quarter -finals, won the meaningless last main round game against Tunisia with 31:19 (18: 8) and closed the group I 8: 2 points behind defending champion and Olympic champion Denmark (10: 0) away.
For the DHB selection, the Norwegian capital Oslo continues on Sunday, where the co-phase is due. In the quarter -finals next Wednesday, either Portugal or Brazil is waiting. The decision is made on Sunday.
It is also questionable whether Juri Knorr will be healthy again until the knockout game. The playmaker is still on investigations in Flensburg, but should be on the way of improvement.
In addition to Knorr, the Rune Dahmke and Lukas Stutzke, who was also sick with Tunisia, were also missing in the duel with Tunisia and the Franz Semper who had already traveled from the World Cup the previous day. So only 14 players were available to the national coach.
Still, as announced, Gislason protects some regulars. Captain Johannes Golla, Julian Köster or Renars Uscins followed the 60 minutes in the training jacket on the bench. For this, Marian Michalczik, nominated, came to his first World Cup mission.
The B team also played out a fast five-goal lead against subsequent Tunisians. The first half did not go perfectly: Again and again some reckless mistakes crept in, which led to unnecessary ball losses. But that was not important. The game was already decided at the break.
After the change, the DHB team started a little more calmly, but then put on the pace again and in the middle of the second half at 26:12 to 14 goals. In the final phase, Germany managed the clear lead and saved forces for the quarter -finals.
If you were particularly convincing in the canteen victory against Tunisia and whoever disappointed despite good team performance, you read in the individual criticism above or here.