Men's Handball IHF World Championship 2019

[thepharoah 2,405]

  On 1/24/2019 at 8:15 PM, OlympicsFan said:

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.

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France is always very dangerous when it comes to finals , they know how to win these matches very well , if i was them i'd prefer to rest some players and to avoid playing with Denmark and Germany at home , as the host always get some help from referees , so it's much better to play Denmark in Semis in Hamburg rather than playing them in Denmark , ofc it's just a guess i can't say they did that on purpose 

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

  On 1/24/2019 at 11:32 PM, thepharoah said:

 

France is always very dangerous when it comes to finals , they know how to win these matches very well , if i was them i'd prefer to rest some players and to avoid playing with Denmark and Germany at home , as the host always get some help from referees , so it's much better to play Denmark in Semis in Hamburg rather than playing them in Denmark , ofc it's just a guess i can't say they did that on purpose 

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Unlikely, AFAIK, they've never done it on purpose and they didn't do it against Russia during the first group wich would have give them a slighty better schedule for the second round.

 

I believe, they didn't really care one way or the another, and that was obvious on the court.

 

Edit: one of the most amazing statistic about this team: since Beijing 08, out of the 28 KO games they played, they won 25 of them 

Edited January 25, 2019 by De_Gambassi

[dareza 911]

Denmark strong as hell.

[LDOG 2,425]

Denmark will be champions for sure.  

  

Sniff sniff Do I smell a norwegian upset? Hope so 

[bestmen 2,831]

Happy that i abondoned the predictions i could get one heart attack 

[OlympicsFan 860]

  On 1/25/2019 at 6:26 PM, LDOG said:

Denmark will be champions for sure.  

  

Sniff sniff Do I smell a norwegian upset? Hope so 

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Hopefully not, the 2 best teams deserve to be in the final. A final between the 2 co-hosts would be a great end to this record-breaking tournament.

[dareza 911]

Norge 

[hoversaBR 474]

Norway 

[thepharoah 2,405]

Norway  they're heading into final for the 2nd time in a row , what an achievement  , but unfortunately they'll likely miss Rod in the final  at least we'll have a new champion which sounds good  

[DaniSRB 899]

Perfect final :D