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FIBA they want to copy/paste everything from FIFA btw I think with this format everybody wants Iran in their group no secret that Iran is the weakest team of the competition and points difference matters here (to qualify even if you are 3rd in the group)

Denmark is the best team in the world right now and they were supposed to win the title but what a night for Landin, he is always good when it matters and Congrats to Sweden for having such a wonderful tournament. and also hats off to Egypt for organizing this competition and also having a great team. they were VERY close to beat Denmark and lost by only 1 goal to the other finalist Sweden. I think it's fair to say that Egypt deserved a medal here.

Mehrdad Minavand former Iran national football team player who played at the 1998 FIFA World Cup died today from COVID 19 at the age of 45. he was quite famous here like every other player from that 1998 team. he got married only 2 months ago

what a match and I know this is going to hurt a lot for Egyptian fans , that was really cruel. but they surely can be proud of their team. that was the most dramatic handball match I ever seen.

what a crazy match

now we know the top 12 teams, Quotas for the next World Champs: Hosts: Poland and Sweden Defending Champion: 1 Europe: 3+9 Asia: 4+1 Africa: 4+1 South America: 3+1 North America: 1 Wild Card: 1+1 (assuming Oceania teams won't finish in top 5 in Asia) it should be 4+9 for Europe but having two European teams as hosts, they will lose 1 quota, even though with hosts, defending Champion and 2 Wild cards, there will be 17 European teams in 2023. (unless COVID comes back and changes the whole thing like it did this time with late withdrawals) and Uruguay will be back again in 2023

how come 3 of the quarterfinals are the same time https://www.ihf.info/competitions/men/308/27th-ihf-mens-world-championship-2021/22415/stage-matches/22503 that's extremely stupid!

Croatia was the biggest disappointment of this tournament, they even struggled against Angola and couldn't beat Japan! if I remember correctly they beat Qatar only because their GK saved 5-6 7m throws. Almost the same team finished 2nd in the European Championship a year ago !

I feel bad for wanting Qatar to win this. Argentina blew up a very good chance. Qatar will finish in top 12 for sure, I don't think I like them to go further. I hope Denmark and Croatia end up in a draw

while it's hard to cheer for Qatar (aka world selection) for obvious reasons I still hope they beat Argentina but for a completely different selfish reason, that win (if happens) will secure a top 12 finish for Qatar and that will give Asia one more quota for the next WCh. if that happens I believe Croatia will be much more motivated to beat Denmark. not sure if Denmark cares much about this match. even though deep down I know even if Asia has 8 quotas, our NT will find a way to finish 9th by a last second goal that happened 4 or 5 times already

the winner will get Norway which is not much weaker than France (maybe even stronger) and then most probably Denmark in the SF. so I guess finishing 2nd in Group 1 isn't that bad. it's somehow better than winning the group

I heard something about it from the commentator during Egypt/Slovenia match, that some (two if I'm not wrong) of Slovenian players had to leave the stadium in middle of the match (at half time if I'm not wrong) for something like that !

so unless Russia makes a miracle it will be Egypt - Denmark in the QF. I was hoping for EGY/ARG QF to have at least one non-European team in the semies. (for the 3rd time ever) now it's kind of mission impossible for Egypt (yeah I know even the great Denmark can have a bad day) if Argentina (or Qatar) qualifies they will have a better chance against Sweden. (I mean comparing to Egypt's chance vs DEN)

Congrats to Egypt they are my favorite team for the single reason of having this event in middle of a pandemic ! (even though I always like non-Eruopean teams to achieve something in Handball) even though they were upset at the end for losing 2 goals lead in the last minute. but they will regret it only if Sweden and Russia end up in a draw (unlikely) I know nobody wants to play Denmark but even winning this match most probably wouldn't help Egypt topping the group. Egypt was down by 5 goals at some point in the second half but a series of stupid mistake by the Slovenians helped Egypt to come back.

Croatia couldn't simply score in the 2nd half, Argentina's defense was GREAT. Croats rarely created any chance. it wasn't like ARG GK had to save much. Croatia scored 1 at the start and I think only 2 goals in next 25 minutes !

They had some good results in Junior/Youth events recently. Porto is a good team in EHF Champions League I think it was about time for Portugal to join the "elite" level team. and while Norway can celebrate beating Portugal by just 1 goal. but still Portugal has a good chance to beat France and qualify with France. in fact Norway's fate is not in its hands anymore. France only had one great match against Norway, they struggled against Switzerland and Algeria. beating them is not mission impossible for Portugal. (Portugal eliminated France from Euro 2020)

I thought so so LEN uses the overall GD while FINA uses the next best team result as tie breaker ? I checked and back in 2017 Worlds it came to this rule between HUN and ITA, and HUN finished first in the group despite having lower GD comparing to ITA (only because they beat AUS by 1 more goal) but since that was 2017, 3 years ago, I thought maybe FINA changed its rules too. btw having different rules for the same sport suck.

actually this is not new, that was the old rule , but I just saw they used the overall GD in the recent European Champs, I don't know maybe they changed it recently

in water polo the tie breaker is only GD against the next best team of the group (France in this case) goals against SVK doesn't count

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1103173/kazakhstan-urine-swapping-charge I think everybody was sure that this Nijat Rahimov guy will get caught oneday. he came out of nowhere and lifted 4kg higher than the World record to win the gold in Rio ! big shame that IWF let Kazakhstan even participated in Rio. at the time we just learned about what they did in 2012 and 2008 but Mr Ajan decided to simply ignore that and they just banned Russia.

that was always possible in Handball, not a new rule, they can call up the reserve guys from the wide list.

well, both Spain and Croatia should consider themselves lucky, Brazil and Japan had the lead in last 15 seconds. I knew Japan is improved a lot but drawing Croatia was beyond imagination

Argentina trailing 7th team of Africa after the half time is a bit interesting I think both Croatia and Argentina will win their matches eventually though.

who is missing for other favorites ?