Updated Thursday, November 30, 2023 – 10:09
The women’s handball team begins its journey in the World Cup in Denmark, Norway and Sweden with a clear 34-17 victory
The Spanish Lysa Tchaptchet, with the ball, during the match against Kazakhstan.AFP
The women’s handball team He fulfilled the script and started his journey in the World Cup in Denmark, Norway and Sweden with a clear 34-17 victory over Kazakhstanin a match in which the Spanish took more than 20 minutes to get into the game.
A circumstance that forced the Spanish coach to request a time-out. Ambros Martn to ask his players to “wake up” and get rid of the nerves typical of the debut in any major competition.
And despite the astronomical distance between both teams, as demonstrated by the resounding 16-43 by which the Spaniards beat the Asians in their last match, after the first 22 minutes of play, Spain only won 8-6.
Brief marker that reflected better than anything the passivity with which the Spanish team started the World Cupwho insisted on adding to the statistics of the up to three goalkeepers that Kazakhstan used in the first half.
Ambros Martín’s defense was somewhat better, despite the surprising and disturbing 1-3 that appeared on the scoreboard after four minutes of play, for whom it was enough to focus minimally to leave the Asians without scoring for 13 minutes (8- 4).
But the throwing errors, many of them very clear, that the Spanish team continued to make allowed the Kazakh team to remain very alive (8-6), which forced the Spanish coach to stop the game.
“Let’s wake up”
“We are going to wake up, let go of our nerves and play as we know how. We are going to do easy and simple things,” claimed Ambros Martín, who despite the unexpected score, never lost his calm.
Words that seemed to resonate with the Spanish players who found the solution to their offensive problems in the pivot Kaba Gassamawho made use of his imposing physique, to convert every ball he received on the six-meter line into a goal or penalty.
A resource that made it possible to open a gap on the scoreboard for the Spanish team, which went into the break with a lead of six goals (14-8) that finally allowed Spain to breathe.
Advantage that was definitively triggered in the second half in which the team, led by a great Merche Castellanoswho made nine stops, two of them from penalties, took a step forward in defense.
An improvement that allowed the Spanish team to bring out their fast counterattacking game, something they had done in dribs and drabs in the first period, to finally put a definitive end to the contest.
And when it wasn’t Maitane Etxeberria o Amaia González de Garibay those in charge of moving the scoreboard the distance that currently separates Spain and Kazakhstan was the lateral Mireya Gonzalezauthor of five goals in the second half, who expanded the Spanish team’s advantage as reflected in the final 34-17.
2023-11-30 09:09:37
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