Russia beats the world champions! – Handball News – Games

The Russians did not beat best teams 2016 Olympic Games. At Euro 2016, nothing has happened: at the 2017 World Championships, in the quarterfinals, they were received in full by the Norwegians. And then, finally, the unfortunate series was interrupted. With the full stands in Nancy, the current world champions are beaten by the French. An excellent start to the European Championships interpreted by the charges of Evgeny Trefilov!

With France, our team has not met since this memorable final of the Brazilian Olympiad. And despite the fact that the tricolores have performed significantly better, the Russians have been rebadured during a recent open training session in Novogorsk: the psychological advantage is on our side.

The game started extremely messy. It's a paradox, but when two big teams meet, it happens quite often. Only goalkeepers of the game made their debut. The French women printed our doors – it's scary to imagine – only in the seventh minute, but after ten, the score was only 2: 2.

Then there were five good minutes for Russia: Anna Sedoykina dragged everything in general, and the players on the field have for the most part created three goals with the help of individual actions. Alas, it was not possible to keep it for a long time, the teams left the break with an equal score. Orlan Kano, the 21-year-old substitute, ruined everything. She sold her four shots.

The Russians did not know how to stop it early in the second period. The young Frenchman continued to shoot without fail and the advantage of his team was increased to three goals. It was only when Anna Vyakhireva personally began playing Kano's personal defense that the music on Orlan Street began to subside. As for Vyakhireva, she could not score and her excessive desire to do it was sometimes played against our entire team. Anna thought about it in time, soberly badessed the situation and, instead of hitting the wall endlessly, she took the role of raspaslovshchik. Darya Dmitrieva and Darya Samokhina performed well as scorers. The second made the five penalties and the first four scored in the same angle, which almost made the French goalies crazy. And what a goal she scored in the minority after parachute pbad Dmitrieva is usually an absolute masterpiece!

A few minutes ago, one of the key segments of the game had arrived. Yulia Managarova got a penalty that Samokhina realized: in the next attack, the seventh meter was already awarded to our goal, but Anna Sedoykina grabbed it. After that, the Russians did not let their rivals equalize their score.

It is telling that at the end of the match, the head coach received a yellow card for excessive emotionality. But not Trefilov, as one might have supposed, but Olivier Krumholz, the French mentor. Evgeny Vasilyevich did not go beyond the established framework; on the contrary, he often smiled.

Trefilov and Krumbholz have a lot in common. In the 2000s, the tricolors under his direction won the World Cup and went to the final three more times. More powerful at that time, only one team – the Russian. Under the guidance, you know who. After the failures of 2012-2013, Krumbholz, like Trefilov after London, was fired. Shortly before the Rio Games, both were quickly returned. Without them, the affairs of both teams got worse. And as no one, they understood each other.

As a result, friends met during the final of the Brazilian Olympics. Now they have a new duel. And she is still left for the Russian coach. Samokhina grabbed Samokhina while the alarming moment was – three minutes before the end of a two-minute withdrawal. Reduce the French to a ball, we do not know how all that would end. But our girls gnawed the floor in defense, and when Dmitriev made it three minutes pleasing to him and a heart "more" three minutes before the end, everything became clear.

Trefilov's team won an important victory, after which the chances of reaching the third decisive turn seem extremely high. Now, the key is not to lose yours in games with fewer rivals to the status. Then, you see, the desire of the President of the Russian Handball Federation, Sergei Shishkarev, who expressed the hope that the same teams will play in the finals of the European Championship will come true opening of the match.