Handball European Championship: First against the law thriller, then Germany falls aside – Denmark wins clearly | EUROtoday

Immediately after the defeat towards Denmark, Germany’s handball gamers went into evaluation and mentioned wildly on the ground. Knowing full nicely that the primary aggressive win towards the European Championship favorites would have been solely attainable. National coach Alfred Gislason’s choice missed their first match level within the combat for the European Championship semi-finals and, regardless of an initially sturdy efficiency, finally needed to admit defeat by a rating of 26:31 (12:13).

The Olympic silver medalist now faces an all-or-nothing duel. Because on Wednesday (6 p.m./ZDF/Dyn) it is towards defending champion France for a spot within the semi-finals. Because the defending champions surprisingly made a mistake within the 32:36 win towards Spain, a draw is sufficient for Germany.

Backcourt participant Miro Schluroff was upset after the defeat: “I thought there was a lot more possible.” Gislason praised his workforce and Denmark’s star goalkeeper Emil Nielsen on ARD: “We fail too much because of Nielsen, especially in the second half. They have such a phenomenal team, you can’t have a phase where you miss three or four in a row.”

Captain Johannes Golla emphasised: “It’s of course not the end of the world that we lose here against Denmark. We could have obviously looked better with a few fewer mistakes.” Now the principle factor is to get the sport out of your physique earlier than the sport towards France.

Against Denmark, six objectives from Germany’s finest thrower Renars Uscins weren’t sufficient to silence a lot of the 15,000 spectators within the “Hell of Herning”. The dry spell towards the Scandinavians continues: Germany celebrated its final aggressive win towards the Danes in January 2016.

Memories of the Miracle of Lille

Before the top of the second part of the match, Germany, like Denmark, has six plus factors. They are adopted by France (4), Portugal and Norway (3 every) and Spain (2). Only the highest two finishers attain the semi-finals.

Germany received the final assembly with France thus far. In the quarter-finals of the 2024 Olympic Games, the Équipe Tricolore already seemed just like the positive winner when Renars Uscins then virtually single-handedly disenchanted the hosts and gave Germany the handball miracle of Lille in further time.

Uscins harmful, Knorr upset

In the European Championship sport towards Denmark, the spectators needed to wait 50 minutes for the large duel between Andreas Wolff and Emil Nielsen on account of a shocking change within the German aim. Gislason despatched David Späth onto the ground, who needed to miss a couple of throws from Matthias Gidsel proper from the beginning. Four of the primary six objectives alone had been scored by the distinctive handball participant from Füchse Berlin.

Nevertheless: Germany put up considerably extra resistance than in earlier duels on the World Cup and Olympics. After 20 minutes, the outsider was solely 8:10 behind. And that regardless of as soon as once more lacking alternatives and generally despairing of Nielsen. Uscins specifically posed a number of aim risk. DHB playmaker Juri Knorr, nevertheless, upset once more.

With the half-time whistle, Nils Lichtlein missed a seven-meter penalty to make it 13:13. “We can be very proud of our performance,” stated bicycle owner Justus Fischer at halftime.

Denmark was shaking and was initially removed from an ideal efficiency. Around the break, the house workforce went 9 minutes with out scoring their very own aim, however Germany could not benefit from this. Julian Köster or Marko Grgic lacked the luck to throw on this part – the ball hit the crossbar too typically.

Denmark took benefit of a brief interval of double benefit to drag forward to 17:14 with 20 minutes to play. Then Germany fell aside: Nielsen felt like he was holding every little thing that got here his manner within the Danish aim. Gidsel and Simon Pytlick scored essential objectives in assault – and out of the blue Germany was 16:23 behind. The sport was determined. Wolff’s substitution and courageous resistance till the top did not change that.