The young, spare weakened German team loses their first European Championship match against the experienced Spaniard. But the defeat raises the team not to.
That there are handball to rarely see: that a team has only three fielders on the floor. This happened on Saturday night in the opening game of the European Championship Group C in Wroclaw, the former Breslau. At the beginning of the second half, the Spaniards were only three of us in relation to the selection of the German Handball Federation (DHB), because at the end of the first round three teammates had successively is time penalties: first Eduardo Gurbindo because hard boarding, then captain Raul Entrerrios for dissent , finally scorers Jorge Maqueda, because he had thundered the ball at the free-throw the DHB captain Steffen Weinhold in the face. The intention had counted as the match officials; . in addition to the two-minute penalty gave it for the red card
The German handball team could with their numerical superiority, however, do nothing: As the second half began, they lay back 15:18; with the score at 16:19, the Spaniards were now filled. And also at the end had the three-goal distance validity – 29:32 was subject to the DHB team. What does not is bad, however. After the routine, rehearsed Spaniards in their last EM Test the tournament hosts Poland 26:12 substandard and thereby swung open one of the title favorites, the decimated by various injuries German handball team had anyway little calculated.
The expectations before the game: “At best, a good result”
“At best, we take a good result with” Weinhold had said before the game: “If we take away a good experience that would be okay.” Germany coach Dagur Sigurdsson had put it: “If we play well, gives us confidence for the second and third game,” on Monday (20.30 clock / ARD) against Sweden and on Wednesday (17.15 clock / ZDF) against Slovenia. . Only the best three of four group may continue in the second round
Sigurdsson’s strategy against favorites Spain had quite simply sounded: “A super-super defense with good goalkeepers, quickly come forward in the attack, because if all the while holding up the pace “; can switch the Spaniards offensive and defensive players, their defense is strong as an ox. The plan had a quarter of an hour worked fine, then the world champion of 2013 got off to a spurt and transformed the 9: 10-residue (16 minutes) in a 18: 11-projection (23); so the game was basically decided. “Through this silly phase we have spoiled us a better result”, was county runner Henrik Pekeler. In the rest of the season the Spaniards then managed to lead with all their experience.
The German team missing four regulars
That’s the big difference between the two teams. Eleven of the 16 players in Sigurdsson EM squad are born 1990 and younger, with the Spanish there are only three. The German team elders Carsten Lichtlein, 35, and Martin Strobel, 29, are the only players with EM experience; taken together they have almost as many internationals (312) as the rest of the team (339). Lichtlein but sees even a small advantage: “The boys can go blithely into the tournament, they’ve got no negative experiences.”
Because a total of four permanent staff of the 2015 World Championships injured in Qatar are missing (captain Gensheimer, Right Wing Groetzki , defender Wienczek playmaker Drux), also some substitute players, put in charge of competitive sports DHB Vice President Bob Hanning no figures objectives for this tournament. “The only requirement is that we get the most from us. It may be that we do three good games and retire anyway.”
The tournament in Poland is decisive for the future
Because he the DHB captain Steffen Weinhold throwing the ball at the free-throw in the face in the middle, sees Spain striker Jorge Maqueda the red card.
(Photo: Maciej Kulczynski / dpa )
He is more important that nachgerückten players like striker Christian Dissinger (six goals against Spain), right winger Tobias Reichmann (five), the central backcourt players Steffen Fäth (four) or even the young winger Johannes Sellin (right) and Rune Dahmke (left) their performance Proof set. “If we want to have great success in the future, we must look at what players we can build,” Hanning said. Or, to put it differently: In this tournament, it’s the DHB responsible matter. “To see how strong our width If we can take two or three people for the future, which is more important than the performance in these championships” <. /> p>
National coach Sigurdsson still resented the defeat. “We could get something. We have fought well and played well. There have only little things missing,” he found. The little things he counted some refereeing decisions: that his players always Conceded time penalties if they had just approached, as in 26:28 (50th), but may also have with clumsiness and lack of experience dealing with international hardness. That they could not use their superior numbers after the break, was also less at the referee from France – but the fact that the Spaniards were simply clever
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