Men's Handball IHF World Championship 2019

[LDOG 2,432]

  On 1/23/2019 at 8:04 PM, JoshMartini007 said:

 

Worlds take priority over continental spots, if someone is qualified the spots move down one. Of course this format is unfair as it gives 7th place in the Worlds a better chance of qualifying over the 4th/5th places, not sure why they wouldn't continue the snake pattern and place the best non-qualified European team in Tournament 1.

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This is good for our team I guess? If we have our complete team I rate our chances even if we go against Hungary or Iceland.

[prso1000 683]

  On 1/23/2019 at 8:28 PM, LDOG said:

 

This is good for our team I guess? If we have our complete team I rate our chances even if we go against Hungary or Iceland.

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Iceland is not possible I think.

 

Most probably you will play against Egypt (if not African Champion) or Hungary (Spain is possible as well). And one of semifinalist (France, Germany, Denmark or Norway) 

and then 2nd from Asia (maybe South Korea or Bahrain?) I guess Qatar will win Asian Championship. 

It depends all a bit who will be European Champion and African Champion. 

 

Of course all this is assuming Brazill will be Panamerican champion, and I guess you have chance there as well. and of course you have to at least 2nd at Panamericans

 

Edited January 23, 2019 by prso1000

[dcro 10,210]

Again the formula with easiest group for 2nd/7th team, lol.

 

Hungary will probably become "7th" and then qualify through the easiest group. What a lucky break for them.

[LDOG 2,432]

  On 1/23/2019 at 8:48 PM, dcro said:

Again the formula with easiest group for 2nd/7th team, lol.

 

Hungary will probably become "7th" and then qualify through the easiest group. What a lucky break for them.

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I remember everyone here saying the same about Macedonia before Rio and they lost to Tunisia. I see no reason why our team couldn't beat them when we tied them here without our two best players. Much less Brazil if they were to play.

[thepharoah 2,405]

France will play Denmark in Germany and ofc if they win they'll play Germany if they qualify at Denmark , i don't actually exclude the probability that they lost today on purpose  they won't play a host nation anymore , anyway very strong Semis ahead to come , Denmark vs. France and Norway vs. Germany , it's almost 50-50 in both matches 

[MHSN 3,661]

looks like everybody automatically assume Qatar will win the Asian qualifier. they are the favorite but Bahrain was never easy for them. their last match in Jakarta went to extra time .

[JoshMartini007 2,570]

Iceland can only qualify through the European Championships and will thus be placed in either tournament 2 or 3. The only options for the second world championship team in the first tournament are Spain, Egypt, Brazil or Hungary. I'll be cheering for both Iceland and Macedonia, but it's unlikely that both will make it to the final tournaments.

 

Yeah Qatar is not guaranteed to win the Asian Championships and would make qualifying for Egypt/Brazil/Hungary/Argentina/Chile a lot harder should they fail and finish runner-up. Even Bahrain finishing second among those teams isn't that crazy.

[prso1000 683]

what do you think who is a candidate for the two European spots to be allocated at the next Euro:

Iceland, Macedonia, Russia, Serbia? Maybe Czech Rep or Poland?

[OlympicsFan 860]

  On 1/23/2019 at 9:05 PM, thepharoah said:

France will play Denmark in Germany and ofc if they win they'll play Germany if they qualify at Denmark , i don't actually exclude the probability that they lost today on purpose  they won't play a host nation anymore , anyway very strong Semis ahead to come , Denmark vs. France and Norway vs. Germany , it's almost 50-50 in both matches 

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Are you saying that France wanted to play against Denmark instead of Norway? If so, then there is no way that this is true. Denmark is the favorite for gold.

I am also not sure whether France would have finished 2nd anyways if Germany would have won their match against Spain?

For me it's 50/50 between Norway and Germany, but 60/40 in favor of Denmark in the other semifinal.

[LDOG 2,432]

  On 1/24/2019 at 8:05 AM, prso1000 said:

what do you think who is a candidate for the two European spots to be allocated at the next Euro:

Iceland, Macedonia, Russia, Serbia? Maybe Czech Rep or Poland?

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Slovenia and Russia.