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20.07.2018, 11:11 DAY 1 REVIEW: The opening day sees strong favourites France shocked by Portugal, Romania and Spain impressive on Thursday. |
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Men’s 20 EHF EURO opens for hosts Slovenia in best possible way
Host nation Slovenia started the Men’s 20 EHF EURO in the best possible way – with a win, while strong favourites France were dismantled by Portugal in Celje.
In the other match, Romania cruised to 10-goal victory against Iceland to win 29:19. It was the same difference at half-time as the Icelanders could only score five goals thanks to a combination of strong defence from Romania and a bad day in front of goal for Bjarni Fritzson’s team. CSM Bacau’s centre back Dragos Hantaru top-scored with seven goals and grabbed the best player award, although their FC Barcelona and senior team player Iosif Andrei Buzle, was shown the red card for three two-minute suspensions. Sasa Prapotnik will be pleased his young host-nation side spread the scoring about, with a best player of the match performance from left back Grega Ocvirk as the Celje Pivovarna Lasko player scored five goals in front of his home crowd, backed up by four apiece from Tilen Kosi and fellow Celje player Domen Makuc.
An eight-goal half-time lead was enough for Serbia to take it easy in the second half against Israel in the other group match as they ran out eventual 35:28 (21:13) winners. Even though RK Partizan’s left wing Aleksa Maksic top-scored with nine goals, the best player of the match performance came from Serbia’s goalkeeper Todor Jandric, clearly showing that Israel will be no easy match for their fellow group B challengers
Group D
— Federação de Andebol (@AndebolPortugal) July 19, 2018 Diogo Silva scored 12 goals in the match as Portugal showed their attacking intent in a high-scoring game as the key French player Kyllian Villeminot was restricted to just three strikes.
In the other match, another turnaround occurred with Denmark beat Hungary 23:22 (10:14) despite being behind by four at the break. Dominik Mathe, with 10 goals, did his best to inspire the Hungarians, but they will have to regroup ahead of matchday two tomorrow. The full playing schedule can be found HERE, and all games are free and live on ehfTV.com. Photos: Slavko Kolar / Jurij Kodrun TEXT: EHF/amc |
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