Men's Handball IHF World Championship 2025

[El Analyzer 231]

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[Monzanator 4,611]

beats 30-28 which means we'll compete for 25th place at best

[rafalgorka 1,634]

  On 1/19/2025 at 4:33 PM, Monzanator said:

beats 30-28 which means we'll compete for 25th place at best

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I wrote it here before, I wrote it many times, but i guess i'll repeat this.

 

The rapid decline of our M handball team - from 4th in Rio olympics to the shitty games like today is one of the worst things which happened in Polish sports in recent years. I am very sad about it.

Edited January 19 by rafalgorka

[Monzanator 4,611]

  On 1/19/2025 at 4:47 PM, rafalgorka said:

I wrote it here before, I wrote it many times, but i guess i'll repeat this.

 

The rapid decline of our M handball team - from 4th in Rio olympics to the shitty games like today is one of the worst things which happened in Polish sports in recent years. I am very sad about it.

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Lijewski should be fired ASAP. He only got this job because of his decorated past as a player but let's be serious. He ain't a good coach and won't rally the troops. If the tournament wasn't expanded for no serious reason we wouldn't even qualify here in first place.

[konig 1,510]

A victory, our team wont be the last one

[Belle 986]

Norway 

[kungshamra71 922]

The evolution of Portuguese handball in the past 10 years of so has been really incredible.

 

being able to win to Norway, at a world championship, in their own venue, and finishing the first round in first place… incredible…

 

I feel only sad for the lack of headline news those guys deserve in Portuguese media…

[El Analyzer 231]

yesterday's results:

 

Group A

 

 VS   28-30

 VS   29-22

Group A concluded with  on top with 4 points in the main round, both  &  qualified for the main round with 1 point each.  to the president cup, really surprised with the Polish defense, the lack of dynamic movement and big gaps on pivot is a mystery.  need a huge re-establish of their team with such performance they will struggle even to qualify to major events. very good work from  &  both were very close to do something with  but lack of experience in the 2nd halves was their problem.

 

Group D

 VS  29-20

 VS  36-32

 finished 1st with 3 points in the main round despite the bad start and draw against  who qualified to the main round with 1 point.  Qualified 2nd with 2 points. the order is expected but they will face tough games in the main round with  and

 

Group E

 VS  31-24

 VS  28-31

Portugal was the biggest surprise in the group, beating the home team  and also the great consistency made them the black horse of the tournament.  was performing very well in their game against  but no way to beat them.  is the big disappointment and their supporter were left desperate with the bad results at home. in the main round  qualified with 4 points,  with 2 and   with zero points.

 

Group H

 VS   26-25

 VS  28-24

 

  were dominating the game until minute 53 when a great came back from   made the draw but couple of good saves from  GK guarantee the win for them and qualification for the main round.

 dominated the home team  from the first second till the end (Refs were not wrong in their decisions but were not consistent in their decisions)  qualified to main round with 4 points boosting their chances to go to quarter final,   qualified with 2 points while  qualified to the main round with 0 points.

 

 

[El Analyzer 231]

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[El Analyzer 231]

yesterdays' results:

 VS  26-31 Very good result for  to qualify to the main round, the team improved (but not to compete with the high level yet).  is a fast and rapid team but lacking the strength and good defense.

 

 VS  29-29, great game from both giants,  finished the first half 16-11 but a great comeback from  in second half with special thanks to Alex Dujshebev who scored in the last 6 seconds and to Dujshebev junior (Daniel) who saved the long shot from the center to secure the draw in a thriller game. De Vargas (  GK) did one great moment in the game when he saved a penalty and the Ref gave the Swedish player Hampus a red card thinking it came straight to De Vargas face but the GK told the ref it came to his hand asking the ref to cancel the red card in a great moment  (at that time the score was 20-14 to Sweden)  

 

 VS  28-38, great game from the African side,  is a big question mark, in 1999 Wch they finished 8th and since then the team performance was keep going down (decent number of players switched nationalities),  was leading the game from start till the end and secure a historical qualify to the main round.

 

 VS  18-23, is it a surprise? ..yes and no ..  should be the more favorable side but their performance even in the European qualification was not great..  beat  in European qualification with 1 goal difference in a very tough game.  was performing very well from the beginning finishing the 1st half 14-8,  GK get the credit for such brilliant result.

Edited January 21 by El Analyzer