Sweden, which has many absent from the World Handball Championship, cooled the ardor of Egypt, the host country, on Monday during the third day of the first round (24-23), a success which allows it to start the main round with 4 points and therefore to go to the quarter-finals. Linus Persson’s team (8 goals) recovered from a delay of 4 goals at the start of the second period (10-14) to beat the Egyptians at the post. A precious victory in the perspective of the quarter-finals since Sweden started the main round with the maximum number of points (4), acquired against the other qualified teams and kept.
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