After an unimpressive showing in group stage, the Croatian handball team managed to squeak into the final on Sunday beat Poland 24-21 in the semifinals on Saturday of the European championship for a rematch with France in the final. France was very convincing against Iceland in the other semifinal, winning their game with a result of 36:28.
Croatia didn't play well from the very start of the game and was forced to chase the result the whole first halftime. Poland constantly had a two to three goals lead throughout the first half and it didn’t look good for the Kauboji. However, it was a tale of two halves, as Croatia turned the game around in the second half with four goals in a row from Domagoj Duvnjak. Without a doubt, the player of the match was keeper Mirko Alilović who saved some important shots down the stretch of the game.
In the finals, Croatia will take on France, looking to avenge last years 24-19 defeat in the world championships final in Zagreb on February 1st. Croatia will also look to win their first European championship on Sunday after losing the 2008 final to Denmark. France finished third that year and won the previous tournament in 2006 in Switzerland. The game will take place on Sunday at 5:30pm local Austrian time. We are looking into a live feed. Please link us if you come across a live feed.
~Denis Svirčić reporting from Lakerville
6 comments:
opet luzeri!!!!
Goddman these Frenchman via Africa. They own us in handball. And the Brits have our number too between soccer and tennis. But we can give Cilic a break as he had no legs left.
Euro Draw in 1 week. Any bets?
Murray is Scottish. No one looks too scary from pot 2. Hopefully get Romania.
Still a Brit nonetheless.
The only teams I'm worried about is Serbia and Turkey from Pot 2 for obvious reasons, even though I think that we would spank Turkey twice come this time. If we get Serbia, jebi ga!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2012_qualifying
There will be total of nine groups. Six of these groups will have six teams drawn into them (one each from pots 1 to 6 below); the remaining three groups will consist of five teams (one each from pots 1 to 5 below). At the conclusion of qualifying, the team at the top of each group will qualify automatically. The second-placed team with the most points from games versus the first-, third- fourth- and fifth-placed teams will qualify also. The remaining eight second-placed teams will contest two-legged playoffs for the right to join them.
Top 2 is not automatic anymore.
Last term's qualifying setup was perfect........don't understand why they keep changing it.
My preferred group:
Croatia
Czech republic
Scotland
Wales
Iceland
Malta
If we get Serbia, who is coming with me to Beograd for the game? It would be easy to go to Zagreb.
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