The good game remained in the first phase, and much more serious rivals in the main round knew how to punish every mistake of the Montenegrin handball players.
And there were a lot of them from Hungary and France.
After Hungary, the Lionesses had to congratulate France (31:23) and say goodbye to their dreams of a semi-final and a medal.
"With a large number of technical errors and mistakes, we cannot play against even the worst team, and not against France, which is planning to take the medal," said Suzana Lazović, the head coach of Montenegro.
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France offered several times, but Montenegro did not know how to take advantage of everything.
"Despite the large number of mistakes in the first half, we managed to come back, but it was already the fifth game in a row and it was weaker in the second half - I think we have to ask the question what is the reason for all that. Of course it can be fatigue , but all the teams are worried - we have to see how, why and why this happens," Lazović is clear.
What is the coach particularly not satisfied with?
"Through technical errors, misses, we shot into the goalie - I don't think any team in the championship defends the goalies like Montenegro, as if we blocked at that moment".
Defense?
"We did everything we said we shouldn't, we 'shot' in the middle, and we knew where the biggest danger was coming from. A good thing? Maybe the return, everything else was not good."
By the end of the EHF Euro, our team will have duels with Poland and Sweden - in case of victory, the "lionesses" could go to Vienna for the match for 5th place.
"We are not going to go and lose the next two games, why would we spoil the first impression from the group stage... It is important to play to the end for the World Championship, but also for the mental state," concluded Suzana Lazović.
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