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Euro women's handball: 3 things to know before France-Croatia

2020-12-18T13:40:42.060Z


Favorites in the first semi-final this Friday at 6 p.m., the Habs must absolutely avoid overconfidence in the face of the team.


Now is not the time to be wrong for the France team.

Unbeaten in six games (5V, 1N), the players of Olivier Krumbholz are logically favorites against Croatia, this Friday (6 p.m.) in the semi-final.

Attention all the same to Estelle Nze Minko and her teammates not to neglect the surprise guest (5V, 1D) of the last four, also made up of Denmark (the host country) and Norway, who will face each other later in the evening (8:30 p.m.).

A first for Croatia

Bets are off for this semi-final.

But in this game, it is Croatia that has the big odds.

In ten participations in the Euro, his best ranking (6th) dates from twelve years ago.

In her last two participations, she has each time taken 16th and last place.

Her main assets are Messina Camila Micijevic (1.94m, 30 goals scored but only 54% success), and goalkeeper Tea Pijevic (37% saves).

No overconfidence

The title holders are therefore warned, and they can trust their coach to remind them: “After the preliminary round, most people were not giving a lot of their skin, says Krumbholz.

But Croatia confirmed.

It's a very good atypical team and difficult to play with a very good coach.

Individually, there are some players that we know well.

"" We will have to be very physical, and show them from the start that we are the bosses, analyzes Cleopatre Darleux, one of the three guardians.

They have a smile, are in full swing, get along very well and play for the jersey, but they are not the only ones.

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A big complementarity

This is the strong point of Les Bleues.

Since the start of the competition, Olivier Krumbholz has been able to find the right formulas to adapt to each style of opponent.

He was built on a solid foundation and often rotated his workforce.

On this point, young people (Foppa, Sercien-Ugolin) and non-holders (Kouyate, Niakate) did not disappoint.

In the goals, the rotation between Amandine Leynaud and Cléopatre Darleux works wonderfully.

Finally, Laura Flippes, affected against Russia, should be fit for service.

Source: leparis

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