the Hungary – Romania 31-29
NANCY (Dagbladet): the Hope for semi-final live Norway!
big time favorites such Romania failed against Hungary in the handball-EM and gave thus a helping hand to Norway in the battle for the semi-finals.
Hungary won with two goals – which means that Norway must now hope Germany win against the Netherlands (at midnight). 21). Had Hungary won with three in the evening, would the Uk have gone straight to the semi-finals on goal difference.
Crushed Spain
Now is Norway, with 6 points, Romania with 6 points and Hungary with 6 points in pulja.
the Netherlands (6p) and Germany (4p) plays the evening’s last match – and then it can end with a mutual table and five teams on the same score.
Germany-win: Norway has the best goal difference with five teams in the inter-minitabell. Norway to the semi! the Netherlands-points: Then disappears the Netherlands as group winners. Norway bust in a minitabell with Romania. Furious
After the match was Romanian players fly pissed. Romania-the star Cristina Neagu was carried out on a stretcher minutes before the end of the game with what probably is a nasty knee injury.
See the situation in the top of the article.
Romania-players stood with tears in her eyes in the interview with the Newspaper.
– It is horrible. I don’t know how serious it is, ” says a tearful Crina-Elena Pintea to the Newspaper.
– It is the ruthless exploitation of the players
Team mate Cristina Laslo – Romania’s number 13 – went further in the criticism.
– This is not handball! raging Laslo questions from the Newspaper about Neagu-damage.
What do you mean?
– Neagu being assaulted, time and time again. Someone must stop this madness. There is no good håndballkamp. But we need to protect the players. This is not handball! says Laslo to the Newspaper.
Scepticism in front of the “maratondøgnet”
Also, Romania’s coach Ambros Martín was angry:
– Someone has to do something with the load on the players. Someone must intervene, raging Martin at the press conference, according to NTB.
He was almost on the verge of tears of anger. Romania played a match on Tuesday too, just like Norway.
– I don’t care if we come to the semifinals or not. A player is damaged, he said.
Hungary’s coach, Kim Rasmussen, was eitrende angry he also. He struck hard against The european handball federation (EHF) because the players must be out of the Champions League right before the championships. Also, Rasmussen was critical of the fixture in the european CHAMPIONSHIP.
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INJURED: Cristina Neagu was carried out on a stretcher when Romania lost to Hungary. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / BIldbyrån Show more Norwegian victory
The Norwegian players won against Spain with a 33-26 earlier in the day, but the national team was depending on help from Hungary in the subsequent match in the hall at Nancy.
– It is either cheers or swearing, said Malin Aune to Dagbladet before the Hungary – Romania.
the Captain stands up! She was the best on the stock exchange
And the hungarians delivered a fantastic effort against the favourites from Romania. Rumenerne led a long time, but Hungary picked up to 17-17 at the break.
In the 2. initially, Hungary was the best and won deservedly.
Neagu-damage
But håndballfansen was also witness to a nasty situation.
There were ugly scenes in the EM arena in Nancy, when Cristina Neagu incurred damage in sluttminuttene. She is considered by many as the world’s best player – and had to be carried off the pitch on a stretcher, with a distinct pain in the knee.
The Norwegian EM-hoped would thus have been crushed if Hungary and their Danish coach, Kim Rasmussen, not won against Romania.
– I do not know whether it is I who should take the credit. The girls fighting. We believe in it. It is only against Norway that we have had fear in our game. We would push rumenerne, and we got to, ” says Rasmussen to TV3.
Germany has a chance, but the Netherlands has an extremely stable defense. The germans play a little bit predictable attack play, they are a bit heavy and large, so it think I fit the Dutch very well. Unfortunately I have the Netherlands as the favorite. I don’t think Germany has enough creativity in his game, ” says Rasmussen.
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