Sweden's Helsinborg and Norway's Stavanger bid farewell to the World Championship with the first stage, and today and tomorrow in Frederikshavn, Trondheim, Gothenburg and Herning, battles in the second round begin.
After a perfect first phase, the Montenegrin handball players will open a new one tomorrow (Thursday, 15.30:XNUMX p.m.) against Croatia in Gothenburg, and how well they performed in the first three matches, the statistics speak for themselves.
The "Lionesses" have conceded the fewest goals (55) in three games, along with Denmark, but it should be emphasized that, apart from Hungary, they did not have a tough rival in Group A (Cameroon and Paraguay), while the Scandinavian women, however, went through a more difficult group. with Serbia, Romania and outsider Chile.
The most effective selection after the first round is Norway, which shook the nets of rivals (Austria, South Korea and Greenland) 121 times, and Montenegro is at the top with 90 goals.
In total, 48 goals were scored in 2.614 matches of the first phase, or 54 per game.
Individually, Montenegrins are at the top, so Marta Batinović is the best goalkeeper in the World Cup so far.
The girl with the number 43 "lioness" registered the most defenses at the championship - 37, even nine more than the next two best Elin Torstejnsdottir (Iceland) and Petra Kudlačková (Czech Republic). It should be noted that our goalkeeper only defended for half time against Cameroon and Paraguay.
At the same time, Marta has the best percentage of defenses by goalkeepers who appeared in all three matches of the first phase - 55 percent.
When it comes to the attack, the most goals after three rounds were scored by the girl who will be Montenegro's rival on Saturday - Sukeina Sanja (22) from Senegal. And there the "lionesses" have their representative, since Dijana Mugoša is in second place on the list of scorers with 20 goals.
Our left wing scored seven out of 20 goals from the seven, where he has a perfect performance - seven out of seven.
In the offensive, however, everything "revolves" around Matea Pletikosić - our center back ranks second in the number of assists in the tournament (19), as well as in the combined number of assists and goals (19+9). Only Jovana Jovović from Serbia is ahead of her in both statistical columns.
In the end, the matches of the first stage of the World Cup in Denmark, Norway and Sweden were watched by a total of 131.645 spectators or 2.743 per game.
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