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Unsurprisingly, vice world champion Norway was adamant towards the Austrian handball men at the World Cup in Egypt. In the last match of the preliminary round, Red-White-Red lost 29:38 (17:20) in Giza on Tuesday and thus missed promotion to the main round. Technician Ales Pajovic’s team changes to the President’s Cup for places 25 to 32, where Morocco will be the first rival on Wednesday (3:30 pm).
With their second victory in Group E, Norway finally set progress, and France and Switzerland, who advanced through the United States, are also in the next phase of the tournament. For Austria, who arrived without Nikola Bilyk, in Group II of the President’s Cup, Chile (Friday) and South Korea (Sunday), as well as Morocco, awaits a qualifying game against the equally classified team of Group I on January 27th.
Boris Zivkovic was unable to play Norway due to a collateral ligament injury on Saturday, the first pick on the right back was represented by Nikola Stevanovic. For the first time that he was not in the team there was the routine goalkeeper Thomas Bauer, the team consisted of Thomas Eichberger and Florian Kaiper. The latter was also the dominant man in the Austrian game. Only in the first half did he stop eight shots, most free from six meters, and kept his troops in the game. The expected catch quota of 40 percent did not fully work out, but at 30 percent it was a significant increase over the previous two batches.
Austrians disciplined in attack
Norway, who managed without their superstar Sander Sagosen in the opening minutes, took off on a 4-0 run from 2-2 to 6-2 (7th) and seemed to rush early. But Austria worked their way back to 6: 8 in the 13th minute and also took in a second phase of strength from the Norwegians (not always flawless) (14: 8/18.), Whose ultra-fast attacking game could hardly be avoided. Because in the attack Lukas Hutecek and company were playful, as they were against France, mostly disciplined and varied, they even left some good opportunities and kept the result at halftime with -3 within respectable limits.
After the restart, Norway reignited the turbo, walked away to 30:21 in the 41st minute and finally decided the game for themselves. In the subsequent course, almost the entire team received minutes of action, and Eichberger was also able to excel in goal multiple times. But nothing changed in the respectful distance. (apa)
