severely beaten 29 to 22 by Norway in the final, Sunday, the French Handball team failed to reiterate its exploit of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
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A red and blue compressor roll has derailed the blue train, Sunday, December 19, in the final of the Handball World Championship, Spain. A year after defeating France at home in the final of the euro, Norway picks up its fourth world title. The victory is beautiful for Scandinavians who had been clarified (23-21) by the Blue in the 2017 World Final.
Olympic champion in Japan in August, the French team will have to wait before winning a third world title after those from 2003 and 2017. Dominatrix in the first period, ahead of 4 goals at the break, the French people collapsed on the return of the locker rooms, placing a scathing 17-6. In the Palace of Sports of Granollers, where they had played and won all their games since the beginning of the competition – which had never happened to them in a great appointment -, the tricolors, helpless in attack, were unrecognizable and could not contain the revolt of the Nordic. What has made the Semi-Center Estelle Nze Minko say that “C ‘[was] the worst half that we do all the competition”.
In the second half, the French attackers have systematically stopped on Silje Solberg, the experienced guardian of the red and blue, theriver of a masterful performance in his goals, while the Norwegian rear lines taken by Henny Reinstad, have chained Long distance shots. An area where France still fished Sunday. Since the beginning of the world, this recurring weakness had been highlighted several times by Olivier Krumbholz, the French coach. Another negative point, the Bleues have only very rarely managed to find their garie against Norway. A statement that had already been drawn after the match against Serbia, hardly won 22 to 19 during the main tour
“A very beautiful medal”
Despite the handball lesson administered in the final by a Scandinavian training that the French coach considers as “the best in the world”, the objective posted at the beginning of the global, win a medal, has been reached. “It’s a very beautiful medal, but it’s also a warning,” Temperate Olivier Krumbholz after-match. Since his return to the head of the blue in 2016 – he had already led the France team from 1998 to 2013 – the tricolors reached the last square in seven of the eight international competitions they participated.
There are other reasons for considering the future with optimism. With Grace Zaadi, the Tricolore Attack Orchestra, France probably has the best half-center in the world. The axis it forms in the center of the field with the young pivot (20 years) Pauletta Foppa has little equivalent in the world. But when his opponents manage to stop mechanics, it’s all the blue collective that is out of solutions, for lack of powerful rear.
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