MADRID, 16 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish men’s handball team qualified with full points for the Main Round of the Handball World Cup that is taking place in Sweden and Poland after clearly beating Iran (22-35) on Monday in their last match of the phase groups.
Spain did not have excessive problems to get rid of the Asian team, against which it gave a much better image than last Saturday against Chile. With a great offensive and defensive level, they opened the gap on the scoreboard very quickly and did not relax at any time to win comfortably and advance to the next phase with four points, the same as France, and two more than Slovenia and Montenegro.
The ‘Hispanics’ came out determined to change their image of the match against Chile. Jordi Ribera opted for a defensive 5-1 with Kauldi Odriozola in the forward position and that choked Veselin Vujovic’s men, who chained loss after loss in attack, especially in their continuous attempts to find the pivot area, and that soon lost the Spanish trail on the scoreboard.
Thus, despite the initial work of Siavoshishahenayati in goal, Spain led quickly with good advantages thanks to their good attack. The quality of the ‘Hispanos’ front line was noted, especially against a defense that also lacked aggressiveness. The Dujshebaev brothers took advantage of this, above all, to score seven of their first 13 goals.
The current runner-up in Europe doubled the Asian team very soon (6-12) and the entry of replacements, including debutant Pol Valera, substitute for the injured Ian Tarrafeta, and a change to 6-0, not The performance on both sides of the track dropped a bit, with Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas also contributing in goal. At halftime, an enlightening 11-21 and 75 percent effectiveness in the Spanish attack.
After the restart, the national team did not relax, but they were unable to continue their success in attack, despite the fact that Jordi Ribera continued to try things like removing Pérez de Vargas to attack. In any case, despite losing something, the La Mancha goalkeeper made sure that his rival couldn’t get ‘closer’ on the scoreboard.
Spain continued to manage rents at all times above ten goals. Sarpooshi wanted to replicate the Barça goalkeeper on the side of an Iran, who also could not take advantage of a few minutes of Spanish offensive drought to make up the result. Those of Ribera did not slacken and tuned for the ‘moment of truth’ in the championship.
DATASHEET.
–RESULT: IRAN, 22 – SPAIN, 35 (11-21, at halftime).
–TEAMS.
Iran: Siavoshishahenayati (P), Sarpooshi (P), Heidari Ramsheh, Barbat (4), Askari (2), Kouhzad, Samsami, Behnamnia, Kazemi (2), Oraei (2), Heidarpour (4, 1 of pen), Norouzinezhad Gharehlou (4), Yadegaridehkordi, Kiani (2), Sadeghzadeh (1) and Kabirianjoo (1).
SPAIN: Pérez de Vargas (L, 1), Guardiola (2), A.Fernández (4), Solé (6, 1 pen), Cañellas (3), A.Dujshebaev (6), D.Dujshebaev (2) , Maqueda (3), Casado (1), Figueras (1), Pecina (1), Odriozola (3, 1 pen), Sánchez-Migallón, Valera and D.Fernández (2).
–PARIAL PARTIES EVERY 5 MINUTES: 2-3, 3-7, 5-10, 7-13, 9-17 and 11-21 –break– 13-23, 14-25, 15-28, 17-29 , 18-31 and 22-35.
–REFEREE: Bon-Ok Koo and Seok Lee (KOR). They ruled out Samsami (2), Kazemi and Yadegaridehkordi for Iran and Sanchez-Migallo and Peciña for Spain.
–PAVILLION: TAURON Kraków Arena.
