Victory narrowly missed
Handball World Championship: Austria vs. the Netherlands
Austria's heavily depleted men's national handball team bowed out of the World Championships in Croatia with a 37:37 draw against the Netherlands. The ÖHB team will therefore only finish the main round Group 2 in fifth and penultimate place. In the final ranking, Sebastian Frimmel and Co. will finish between 17th and 20th. Earlier in the tournament in Varazdin, they had lost 29:29 to North Macedonia and 26:29 to Hungary.
Both teams were on an equal footing for almost the entire match. The ÖHB team took a two-goal lead for the first time at 7:5, but conceded two goals shortly before the end to go into the break 17:19 behind. Two goals after the restart made up for this deficit, but it took until 29:28 after 48 minutes for the Austrians to take the lead again.
Frimmel at the center of attention
Frimmel in particular took center stage in the final period. He first missed the chance to make it 34:33 and allowed the "Oranjes" to go ahead again after almost 55 minutes. With the score at 35:35, goalkeeper Florian Kaiper produced one of his few great saves and Frimmel put his team ahead again with a seven-meter penalty. After equalizing again, it was Frimmel again who made it 37:36 with 20 seconds remaining. The Dutch hit back immediately.
ÖHB team captain Ales Pajovic called a timeout with twelve seconds remaining, but the last move in a 7:6 superiority did not lead to success. The draw was actually too little for both teams, meaning the Dutch team no longer have a chance of advancing.
This article has been automatically translated,
read the original article here.
Kommentare
Willkommen in unserer Community! Eingehende Beiträge werden geprüft und anschließend veröffentlicht. Bitte achten Sie auf Einhaltung unserer Netiquette und AGB. Für ausführliche Diskussionen steht Ihnen ebenso das krone.at-Forum zur Verfügung. Hier können Sie das Community-Team via unserer Melde- und Abhilfestelle kontaktieren.
User-Beiträge geben nicht notwendigerweise die Meinung des Betreibers/der Redaktion bzw. von Krone Multimedia (KMM) wieder. In diesem Sinne distanziert sich die Redaktion/der Betreiber von den Inhalten in diesem Diskussionsforum. KMM behält sich insbesondere vor, gegen geltendes Recht verstoßende, den guten Sitten oder der Netiquette widersprechende bzw. dem Ansehen von KMM zuwiderlaufende Beiträge zu löschen, diesbezüglichen Schadenersatz gegenüber dem betreffenden User geltend zu machen, die Nutzer-Daten zu Zwecken der Rechtsverfolgung zu verwenden und strafrechtlich relevante Beiträge zur Anzeige zu bringen (siehe auch AGB). Hier können Sie das Community-Team via unserer Melde- und Abhilfestelle kontaktieren.