History repeated itself for the handball players of Norway, they had a replay of the match they wanted to forget.
As in the semifinals of the European Championship 2020 with Croatia (28:29), they were defeated tonight after 80 minutes, this time in the quarterfinals of the World Championship against Spain (35:34).
The "Vikings" have themselves to blame for the defeat, because they had everything in their hands at the end of the regular season. Torbjern Bergerud saved Aleks Dujshebaev's shot 20 seconds before the end, and coach Jonas Vile took a time-out a second later.
His chosen ones led 25:24 and could keep the ball until the end, but they took it too literally. They didn't want to go for the goal, even though everything was open to them, they could have kicked past the post or over the crossbar and time would have passed, but they allowed Slovenian referees Bojan Lah and David Sok to justifiably take the ball away due to a passive attack. The Spaniards punished it and from the counter through Danijel Dujšebaev reached extra time.
The "Spanish" could have settled the match in the first overtime, which was played for 2x5 minutes, but they lost the ball with 19 seconds left, and Christian Bjørnsen equalized from the counter at 29:29.
In the second overtime, the Norwegians led three times, but Danijel Duyshebaev and Gonzalo Peres de Vargas became heroes - the son of the former best player in the world scored a goal in 35:34, and the Barcelona goalkeeper saved Sebastian Bartoldo's shot with eight seconds left.
Peres de Vargas saved 16 shots and a seven-pointer, Bergerud had almost the same performance (15 + 2).
In the winning team, Angel Fernandes was the most effective with eight goals, Alex Dujshebaev with seven, and his younger brother, Đoan Kanjelas and Adria Figueras scored five each.
For the Norwegians, the wings Bjørnsen with nine and Barthold with eight goals rebounded, while Sander Sagosen made only three of 10 shots, but he also had 10 assists.
The Spaniards will play in the semi-finals with Denmark, which played with Hungary and won 40:23!
The Danes thus took revenge on the Hungarians for the last defeat they experienced at the world championships, in the round of 2017 in 27 (25:24). Since then, they have recorded XNUMX wins and two draws, and in Sweden and Poland they are defending a double consecutive title.
Matias Gidsel shook the net of Ćeme Rodriguez's team nine times, Simon Pitlik scored eight goals, and the goalkeepers collected 16 saves - Niklas Landin Jakobsen 12, Kevin Meller four.
Only Mate Lekai and Rihard Bodo were on par with the Hungarians with six goals each.
Sweden - Egypt and France - Germany meet in the remaining two semi-finals.
Reporting made possible by Lob
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