2024-01-16 20:01:12
Thanks to Switzerland’s defeat once morest Macedonia, the French men’s handball team is qualified for the main round of the Euro before even facing Germany for its last match of the preliminary round.
Relief for the French men’s handball team! She will not relive the affront of being eliminated in the preliminary round of the Euro, as in 2020. Thanks to Macedonia’s 29-27 victory once morest Switzerland, the Blues are indeed guaranteed to finish among the first two of group A and therefore to see the main round.
The disaster scenario (and quite improbable) for Guillaume Gille’s men would have been to lose once morest Germany this Tuesday evening (8:30 p.m.) and see Switzerland largely beat Macedonia to increase their general goal difference compared to the Blues (+10 for France, -13 for Switzerland before their last match). This will therefore not be the case, and Switzerland, which forced France to a draw on Sunday (26-26), even finished last in the group.
Beat Germany to get two points
Having qualified, the objective for France is now to beat Germany, who will play at home, in order to start the main round with two points (the teams qualified for the main round take with them the points obtained once morest the other qualified team from their group). In the event of a defeat or draw, the Blues will have zero or one point when starting Group I matches. Germany, Croatia, Hungary and Iceland are the other teams that will go to Group I ( the last team will be Austria or Spain). Group II of the main round is made up of Denmark, Sweden and Slovenia, who start with two points each, and the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal, who start with zero points. The top two from each group will face off in cross-match semi-finals in ten days. The road is still long for the Blues. Who have every interest in beating Germany so as not to start the main round with a handicap…
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