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The handball players drew with Sweden 27:27 and they lacked a goal at the European Championships to advance

The Czech handball players did not advance to the next stage at the European Championships. In the final match of the basic group E in Bratislava in a direct battle for promotion, they managed to draw with the favored Sweden 27:27, but the draw was enough for the Northerners due to the better score.

Coach Rastislav Trtík’s charges kept pace with the reigning world vice-champions throughout the match, defending the opponent’s last attack, but they no longer had time for the winning goal.

The Czech team finished the championship with one victory, a draw and a defeat. In an extremely busy basic group, he first narrowly succumbed to the gold defenders at the Spanish at 26:28, then defeated Bosnia and Herzegovina at 27:19 and today scored a point for the Swedes. The representatives did not follow up on the last two European championships, at which they advanced from the basic group. In 2018, they took sixth place and equaled their maximum.

“It hurts terribly, I’m terribly broken and disappointed. It’s important to me that the boys have shown that they are able to play with world leaders, two-time European champions Spaniards, world vice-champions Swedes. They were afraid of us. luck, but they also had the favor of other factors, “Trtík told reporters.

“It’s very difficult to evaluate. When you’re browsing courses for 30 or 40 years, you know it could be different, but it’s not. Other things play a role there, it’s hard to imagine that the European champion and vice-champion “This is how I will probably indicate what this is about. I’m very proud of the team. The boys have shown that they can really play handball. There are young players who have competed with the best in the world,” added Trtík, who led the team to the big event for the first time. since 2005.

The 60-year-old coach made one line-up change against Saturday’s winning match with Bosnia, with Reichl returning to pivotal instead of Užek. The Swedes lacked several players because of the coronavirus.

As in previous matches, the Czech team in Ondrej Nepely’s hall of ten thousand, which can be filled with a maximum of one quarter due to anti-coid measures during the tournament, had a practically home environment. From the beginning, the fans watched a big fight with a number of relatively tough interventions. The Croatian referees eliminated three players on each side in the first half.

Trtík’s team led in the opening act only at the very beginning and then had to catch up. The Swedes, with four gold medals in history, the most successful team in the European Championships, jumped into a two-goal lead in the middle of the first half, but the Czechs tied it 9: 9 in the 22nd minute after Piroch’s shot.

The 21-year-old clutch played an excellent opening act and scored four times out of four shots. Mrkva took the lead in the Czech goal, performing six interventions in the first half and giving his teammates a chance to take the lead several times. However, his counterpart Palicka, the son of a Czech father, also shone just before the break and the Northerners went to the cabins with a close lead of 12:11.

After the change of sides, the national team leveled, but from 15:15 the opponent jumped into a two-goal lead. The Swedes were also helped by two controversial statements by Croatian referees, especially the possibility to play the seven again after Mrkva first caught Wanne.

In the 42nd minute, Claar sent the favorite to the three-goal lead in the match for the first time. However, the Czechs did not let themselves be trampled, they showed a string of three goals and Patzel equalized in 22 minutes at 22:22. Immediately, the representatives even attacked to gain the lead, but after a technical mistake they lost the ball.

“We were catching up with a one-goal deficit all the time. We had one chance to go for a plus one, which might break them. We didn’t succeed, we missed a little,” said Babák, the top scorer with six goals. He scored all the goals after a change of sides.

The Swedes saved a number of attacks only thanks to sevens, all five of them played in the second half. The Czechs did not get such a chance even once in the match. “It was obvious that the Swedes didn’t know, they were worried. The seven were very much in need, but in the end they managed to smuggle it there. They have fighters who have something played out,” Babák remarked.

The Czechs continued to catch up, performing at the limit and unexpectedly got the world runners-up. The Swedes held a one-goal lead with all their might, to which the outsider was always able to react. In the 60th minute, Babák equalized at 27:27. Trtík’s team then defended the opponent’s final attack, but there were only a few seconds left until the end and the last pass over half the field did not work for the Czechs.

“We knew it was a few seconds to end, that there was no time to think. I don’t know who was recording. He saw that the wing was free, he tried to play as fast as possible. At this moment we can’t blame anyone,” Babák said.

European Handball Championships in Slovakia and Hungary:

Basic group E (Bratislava):

Czech Republic – Sweden 27:27 (11:12)

Lineups and goals: Czech Republic: Mrkva, Mizera – Hrstka 4, Bečvář, Jurka, Piroch 5, Kašpárek 2, Reichl 3, Babák 6, Číp 1, Petrovský 1, Vančo, Klíma 3, V. Patzel 2, Solák, Franc.

Sweden’s most goals: Wanne 5/5, Sandell 5. Referees: Gubica, Milosevic (both Croatian). Exclusion: 4: 3. 7-meter throws: 0 – 5/5. Attendance: 1368 (limited number).

Bosnia and Herzegovina – Spain 24:28 (14:12).

Final table:

1. Spain 3 3 0 0 88:78 6
2. Sweden 3 1 1 1 85:77 3
3. CR 3 1 1 1 80:74 3
4. Bosnia and Herzegovina 3 0 0 3 61:85 0

Group A (Debrecen):

Montenegro – Slovenia 33:32 (16:19), North Macedonia – Denmark 21:31 (11:15).

Final table:

1. Denmark 3 3 0 0 95:65 6
2. Montenegro 3 2 0 1 82:86 4
3. Slovenia 3 1 0 2 82:92 2
4. Northern Macedonia 3 0 0 3 70:86

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Group C (Szeged):

Ukraine – Croatia 25:38 (13:18), France – Serbia 29:25 (16: 7).

Final table:

1. France 3 3 0 0 92:70 6
2. Croatia 3 2 0 1 83:72 4
3. Serbia 3 1 0 2 76:75 2
4. Ukraine 3 0 0 3 71:105 0

Group F (Košice):

Slovakia – Russia 27:36 (9:19), Lithuania – Norway 29:35 (16:16).

Final table:

1. Mask 3 3 0 0 88:76 6
2. Norway 3 2 0 1 92:77 4
3. Slovakia 3 1 0 2 83:97 2
4. Lithuania 3 0 0 3 82:95 0

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