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The 'Hispanics' want to decipher Slovenia

The 'Hispanics' want to decipher Slovenia.

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The 'Hispanics' want to decipher Slovenia

The 'Hispanics' want to decipher Slovenia

The Spanish team seeks to certify its ticket to the quarterfinals of the Handball World Cup against a dangerous and talented rival

MADRID, 19 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish men's handball team will try to certify this Friday (3:30 p.m. / Teledeporte) their mathematical pass to the quarterfinals of the World Cup that is being played in Poland and Sweden, which happens by defeating the talented and dangerous Slovenia.

After starting the Main Round of the championship with a necessary and good victory against hosts Poland (27-23), the 'Hispanics' will once again have a highly demanding duel, with the addition that reaching the crosses without need to wait for the last game on Sunday against France.

Spain has six points, two more than a Slovenia that is bordering on a very good level and that wants to take advantage of the second chance that the International Federation (IHF) gave it by granting it one of the two invitations since it had been eliminated by Serbia in its ' playoff' by one goal.

That elimination was added to their last European bad, where they could not even overcome the first phase where they were defeated by Denmark and Montenegro. That led to the arrival on the bench of one of his great references such as Uros Zorman, who could not avoid the initial elimination and who has renewed a team that is once again showing a good level in a championship where he adds only the defeat against France (31- 36) in the first phase.

And as usual, Slovenia has a lot of talent, especially in a front line that is very versatile, with many central defenders who can play full-backs and where Dean Bombac, Jure Dolenec, Aleks Vlah, their top scorer of the tournament with 24 goals, stand out. , Rok Ovnicek or the young Domen Makuc, a Barça player, in which another of the Slovenian dangers also plays, the winger Blaz Janc.

This will force the Spanish defense, led in goal by a toned Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas, will have to score at their best level to decipher the good collective play of Zorman's men, who are also strong at the back, led by Blaz Blagotinsek, and who will force Spain to attack once more with patience and without committing losses that provoke counterattacks. There, the work of the also creative front line led by the Dujshebaev brothers and the veteran Joan Cañellas seems key.

"We have to prepare the game as well as possible and try to get it out because we are at stake as it is to be in the quarterfinals of a World Cup. We know that it is a final for us and we understand that it is for them too, so it will be difficult for the team we are up against and for what we are at stake", warned Agustín Casado.

In statistics, Spain and Slovenia have seen each other 21 times, with 16 wins for the 'Hispanics', including the last between the two teams, by a tight 34-32 in the 2020 European semifinals.

SLOVENIA: Baznik (P), Lesjak (P); Kodrin, Jovicic, Mackovsek, Horvat, Kavcic, Ovnicek, Bombac, Makuc, Vlah, Dolenec, Cehte, Janc, Novak, Blagotinsek, Zabic and Horzen.

SPAIN: Corrales (P), Perez de Vargas (P), Guardiola, A.Fernandez, Sole, Canellas, A.Dujshebaev, D.Dujshebaev, Maqueda, Casado, Figueras, Pecina, Odriozola, Sanchez-Migallon, Serdio, Garciandia and D.Fernandez.

--PAVILLION: TAURON Kraków Arena.

--TIME: 3:30 p.m./Teledeporte.