the Island fought bravely, but eventually had to see himself beaten, as the Friday was a defeat for Croatia in both teams ‘ first match at the WORLD cup in denmark.
Croatia won 31-27 over the Island, which is trained by former national coach for Denmark, Gudmundur Gudmundsson, and put themselves at the top of group B along with Macedonia, who earlier Friday won 38-29 over Japan.
Friday’s match was close from the first whistle. None of the two teams managed to distance themselves from the other, and after a quarter of an hour there was still similarity on the measured breeding at the position 9-9.
Iceland got shortly after the game to a lead of three goals, but a undertalsperiode did, that Croatia fought back.
The icelandic games went then to a complete halt, and the croats could go to the break with a lead of 16-14.
In the second half found the icelanders again the melody. After a quarter of an hour they were ahead with two goals, prompting Croatia to take a timeout.
Spilstoppet helped. A little after, it was again straight, and then there was laid up for an exciting conclusion.
Here, Croatia was best, and it ended up being a relatively comfortable victory.
Luka Stepancic was the match top scorer with eight goals.
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