Gripping ending!
DHB team is in the intermediate round of the World Cup after defeating Serbia
Created: 01/16/2023 05:11
By: Florian Schimak
Germany met Serbia in the second group game of the Handball World Championship.
With the victory, the DHB team has reached the intermediate round.
But it was very close.
Germany – Serbia 34:33 (19:17)
Handball World Cup 2023
: Second group game for the
DHB team
- second win!
Gripping ending!
DHB team is in
the intermediate round of the World Cup
after defeating Serbia
Update from January 15, 7:43 p.m .:
The national coach is on the microphone immediately after the end of the game at ARD.
"I'm a very happy national coach, we knew how important the game was," says Gislason: "We played very well, but there are small things to criticize.
Our defense didn't work the way we wanted.
But we played very, very well up front.” Goalkeeper Birlehm in particular gets a lot of praise from the Icelander after the game – and rightly so.
Germany – Serbia 34:33 (19:17)
Germany: Joel Birlehm, Andreas Wolff - Kai Häfner, Paul Drux, Simon Ernst, Juri Knorr, Julian Köster, Philipp Weber, Luca Witzke, Djibril M |
Serbia: Milan Bomastar, Vladimir Cupara - Ilija Abutovic, Uros Borzas, Petar Dor?ic, Marko Milosavljevic, Stefan Dodic, Lazar Kukic, Milos Orbovic, Predrag Vejin, Nemanja Ilic, Vanja Ilic, Bogdan Radivojevic, Vukasin Vorkapic, Mijajlo Marsenic, Dragan Pechmalbec Source: https://www.handball-world.news/o.red.r/news-1-1-25-148587.html |
Penalty minutes: 8 - 4 |
+++ Conclusion: Offensively it was a really, really strong game from the DHB selection, but the defense had a few holes. So the game against Serbia was never decided. In the crunch time, however, Joel Birlehm was there and saved several free balls - and led Germany to victory and the intermediate round of the World Cup. +++
The DHB team celebrated a spectacular victory over Serbia - and is in the intermediate round of the World Cup.
© Imago
60 minutes:
50 seconds to play, Germany has the ball and is two goals ahead.
Germany takes another break.
The Germans get the attack whistled off because of time wasting, Serbia shortened.
Man, what a tight drama!
But then there are only eight seconds and the DHB team saves the one-goal lead over time.
59 minutes:
Birlehm!
Strong boy!
The ball is passed to the Serbs, but the Rhein-Neckar Löwen keeper saves!
Was that the parade of the game?
In return, Mertens is there and scores his seventh goal with his seventh attempt!
58 minutes:
Man!
Now the defense is required because Serbia is defending well in the circle again.
The passes don't come anymore.
Another break for the Serbs.
"We need defense," says Gislason there.
Where he's right...
54 minutes:
Mei, will it be such a tight thing again?
Golla forgives completely freely, then there are two minutes for the DHB team.
But Birlehm holds a free throw!
Phew, that was super important!
On the other hand, Häfner brings the 33:30 lead.
About five more minutes...
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53 minutes:
Knorr's allusions to the district no longer come, that's dangerous!
The DHB team gets easy hits.
Gislason takes the time out and swears in his boys again.
Germany vs Serbia now live: Birlehm outstanding!
Keeper keeps DHB team in the game
50 minutes:
Birlehm is in the game!
Two free parades by the DHB keeper, then he holds a seven meter!
Very, very important at this stage of the game.
48 minutes:
It remains a tight game!
Serbia is now back on two hits, but the DHB team is going on the offensive.
Köster increases again to a three-goal lead.
42 minutes:
Knorr!
Very important thing!
Forearm throw from the back room, outstanding!
It's goal after goal here, great match.
39 minutes:
Now things are going right for the DHB team!
First Mertens converts outstandingly again, then Golla succeeds in scoring a crazy hit.
Falling with his back to the goal, the captain scores – and Serbia also receives a two-minute penalty for defending in a circle.
Germany is ahead by 5 goals!
34 minutes:
It's tight, the start of the second half is a bit more nervous.
But two allusions to the circle bring two DHB goals.
Then Mertens completes a tempo counterattack grandiosely - the DHB team is ahead with three goals!
31 minutes:
So, let's continue in Katowice.
We're hoping for a similarly spectacular second half.
Germany vs Serbia now live: Spectacular first half!
DHB team leads
+++ Half-time conclusion: Break in Katowice. Wow what a game! The DHB team burns off a real offensive firework. Led by the strong Yuri Knorr, the Gislason squad shines against Serbia, but they don't have to hide here. Because as well as Germany plays offensively, the team is just as vulnerable on the defensive. The 2015 European Championship runner-up also knows how to impress and is ultimately only two goals behind. +++
SC Magdeburg's Lucas Mertens scored four times in the first half.
Germany against Serbia at the Handball World Cup in the live ticker.
© IMAGO/Marco Wolf
29 minutes:
Bitter!
Change error in the DHB team, that means double the number in the last minute before the break.
And the Serbs play it out brilliantly with a Kempa trick.
Strong!
At 19:17 we go on break.
27 minutes:
What is that for a fast game?
A crazy offensive spectacle, both teams act with completely open visors.
18:15 and it's not even break yet.
Now there's the first two-minute penalty for the DHB team.
Meanwhile, Gislason brought Birlehm for Wolff.
25 minutes:
Knorr again!
Golla again!
Hit number 16 for the DHB team.
Very, very strong.
22 minutes:
Knorr!
Is that strong!
The new superstar of the DHB team hits from the back to 15:11 - for the first time four goals forward for Germany.
Serbia is taking a break.
Germany vs Serbia now live: offensive party from the DHB team
Andreas Wolff is strong: Germany against Serbia in the live ticker at the Handball World Cup.
© Jan Woitas/dpa
18 minutes:
boy, boy!
Outstanding attack of the DHB boys!
Knorr frees Mertens on the left, who flies into the circle, but frees Kempa Köster and he scores.
Great, that shows self-confidence.
15 minutes:
Mertens on fire!
Four throws, four hits from Magdeburg, that's strong.
Knorr grabs the rebound and serves Mertens, who scores to make it 11:9.
In return, however, the Serbs break through, national coach Gislason takes the first time out.
11 minutes:
Offensively things are going very well for the Germans so far.
Especially the wingers around Groetzki and Mertens are accurate.
Now Wolff has his first big save!
Very important!
Captain Golla is also there - two goals ahead.
Germany vs Serbia now live: DHB wants to buy a ticket for the intermediate round
5th Minute:
Whoa, this is where things really get going!
Good pace in the game.
Nine goals in the first five minutes - the keeper can't get a hand on the ball on either side. Now the Serbs are counterattacking because the DHB team has lost the ball easily - compensation!
1st minute:
Throw!
The game is on and Weber immediately puts the DHB team in the lead.
It is important that he hits the first throw.
The Serbs don't finish their first attack.
Knorr frees Groetzki terrifically - 2:0!
Update from January 15, 5:57 p.m.:
The anthems sound!
It's about to start in Katowice.
We are already very hot.
Update from January 15, 5:50 p.m .:
Breathe easy with the DHB team!
Andreas Wolff is fit for the second group game at this World Cup.
As ARD has just reported, the keeper didn't hobble into the hall and showed himself to be in excellent shape even during the warm-up.
"We have to be in constant defense for 60 minutes, we only did that half time the day before yesterday," warns national coach Gislason now in the sports show.
Germany vs Serbia now live: Keeper Wolff fit after a calf strain
Andreas Wolff is available for the game against Serbia.
© IMAGO/Marco Wolf
Update from January 15, 5.40 p.m .:
The Serbs also had a successful start.
The squad of Spanish coach Toni Gerona won against Algeria with 36:27 (16:13).
Update from January 15, 4:33 p.m .:
It starts in less than 90 minutes, then Germany meets Serbia in the second World Cup group game at the World Cup in Sweden and Poland.
Will keeper Andreas Wolff be fit by then?
Apparently!
After suffering a minor calf injury, the 31-year-old completed the final training session ahead of Sunday's game on Saturday afternoon.
Wolff suffered the strain in the 31:27 win against Qatar on Friday and hobbled off the field in the closing stages.
First report from January 15, 4 p.m.:
Munich / Katowice – The second group game of the DHB selection at the Handball World Cup 2023 is pending.
At the start, Germany had deservedly beat Qatar 31:27 (18:12) in Kattowitz, but in the end kept the game unnecessarily exciting.
This carelessness must not happen to the team of national coach Alfred Gislason against the 2012 European Championship runners-up.
Therefore, assistant coach Erik Wudtke warns the team around youngster Juri Knorr before a "crunchy task".
Germany vs Serbia: Handball World Cup in the live ticker – excitement in the DHB team
Despite the initial success, the headlines in Germany were unfortunately not purely of a sporting nature.
The reason: Christian Schwarzer.
A hearty beating by the German handball boss, incredulous shaking of the head in the league and great incomprehension in the DHB team: The reactions to the crude statements of 2007 world champion Christian Schwarzer about referees in the men's area are tough.
Blacky's blackout heated up tempers on the first World Cup weekend.
"It's a pity that such a great national player is maneuvered offside in such a way," said DHB President Andreas Michelmann to SID and reprimanded Schwarzer's behavior: "I find these statements absolutely out of date and completely out of place." Germany's captain Johannes Golla asked clear: "It makes no difference to me who directs the games."
Juri Knorr threw the best German pitcher against Qatar.
Christian Schwarzer attracted attention with strange statements.
© IMAGO / wolf-sportfoto
Hanbdall World Cup 2023: "Out of time" - Blacky's blackout heats up
The 318-time national player Schwarzer had previously criticized the nomination of women's referees for the men's World Cup (until January 29), just two days after the historic premiere of Maike Merz and Tanja Kuttler as the first female German World Cup team.
"I have no idea how the idea of letting women whistle for men came up," said the 2007 world champion in the podcast "Enlightening by Blacky Schwarzer".
In his active career he missed female referees on the field "by no means": "I wouldn't have done it: They can whistle for women - and men whistle for men, but that's my attitude towards it now - and it decides other people about it.”
The two women
skillfully parried the statements on
ARD .
“Everyone has the right to freely express their opinion.
He can do that too," said World Cup referee Merz at the sports show: "We don't have to say more about it."
(smk / sid)
