Three mellemrundekampe in four days, the last of which was played late Wednesday. And so up and with the bus in four-five hours at nine o’clock the day after.

this is the sound of the recipe for the Dutch håndboldkvinder, who is ready for the semi-finals in Paris.

however, This requires the aforementioned bus ride, and it is the team’s coach, Danish Helle Thomsen, very tired of.

– It gets a little crazy. Down here it is so arranged that one should travel at 9 in. We would like to have had a bus later, so we could be permitted to sleep, but it can’t be allowed to here because of security, says Helle Thomsen for TV2.

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however, It is not only the planning of the Dutch team, which is bad, she believes.

Wednesday, may Romania’s biggest star, Christina Neagu, leave EM on because of an injury. A risk that rises when it must be played so many matches in few days.

– I think it is under all criticism, how this program is put together. It also applies to the next couple of days. Now we have played three matches in four days. We have to travel on Thursday morning at 9 am. We are to travel four, five hours. We have a battle the day after. I do not think this is fair, but such is life. We take it day by day, says Thomsen.

Friday is the storkamp against France, while Russia and Romania meet in the other game.