Always undefeated, the French Handball team won the first of his four games of the main tour, and made a step towards the semifinals.
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A new evening without fright for the blues. At the end of a lively part, the French Handball team dominated the Netherlands 34 to 24, at the MVD Dome of Budapest, Hungary, for its first match of the main tour of the euro. The oranges, which evolved in light blue, did not have the weapons to resist more than half-time to tricolores cooler physically, which have a richer bench that had benefited from an additional recovery day. Once again, Vincent Gérard, the French guard, author of 13 parades, has passed a very high level match.
“We can be satisfied with our performance tonight. We have been dominant in defense. After a good start, we feet in the carpet, to procrastinate in our choices, to lose balloons, this Who handed the Dutch saddle. But we took the top physically in the second half. They did not have any energy, “said Guillaume Gille selector at Bein Sports at the end of the meeting.
The Netherlands are the surprise guest of the main tour. Having never reached this level in a great competition, the Dutch beat Portugal and Hungary during the preliminary round. A playful team, more renowned for its offensive qualities as for its defense, the most permeable of the twelve teams still in the running. French side, the main evolution in relation to the match against Serbia was the replacement of the Karl Konan pivot, declared positive at COVID-19, on January 18, by Nicolas Tournat, from the Polish Club of Kielce.
The French are perfectly retracted in the match, leading 4-0 after four minutes. Nicolas Tournate managed several shots in pivot, and the oranges could not settle the sight, well helped by a Vincent Gérard of the big nights. The artificer Battle Kay Smits, the best scorer of the euro, had to wait for the tenth minute to open his meter. But, little by little, the game of blues faded.
“We stop making gifts”
Unusual errors in the transmissions and some spectacular stops of the Guardian Barter Ravensbergen allowed the oranges to redo there. The Dutch, taking advantage of a penalty of two minutes sanctioning Nikola Karabatic, returned to a goal (10-9) in the sixteenth minute.
At the e Minute, the blues spent a flat defense on a stage (1-5), with a detached player, Benoît Kounkoud, to harass the bearer of the opposing ball. A tactic that was going to be ineffective. Two new French exclusions (Valentin Porte and Kentin Mahe) for light mistakes allowed Dutch to equalize at the e Minute (12-12).
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