Poland in a great dash against Serbia

The first match of the second day of the Zadar's group brought us a duel between Serbia and Poland. In a very convincing match, the Poles took their victory with the result 35:23.

The first minutes of the encounter showed in which direction would go today's duel between Serbs and Poles, but after 20 minutes everything was clear. Excellent Poles led by the great goalkeeper Szmal, who had 55% defenses at the end of the match, scored to Serbs from all sides. The initial leadership of four goals Poles were increasing from one minute to another, and already in the 22nd minute came up to ten goals of advantage. They went on a break with the result 7:21.

In the second part of the game nothing new happened. Poles have continued in their rhythm, the Serbs have unsuccessfully tried to answer. The team of Bogdan Wenta had the biggest advantage in 45th minute, 15:31. After that, the winner was already been known, the game looked like a friendly encounter of two teams.

The only unknown thing was the result, which was 35:23 at the end in favor of the Polish team.

Serbian coach Jovica Cvetkovic said that he will not grieve after this defeat. "This system of matches is brutal, and 16 is too small number of players who can rotate in this kind of competition. We are turning to the next match and we will try to play the best we can in next matches".

Polish coach Bogdan is satisfied with the match epilogue and with domination of his team. “Serbia plays very fast and risky, but the key to our victory was a great defense with which we stopped their attacks“.

via croatia2009.com

Brazilians danced samba

Brazilians have finally danced samba in the Hall Zatika. The passionate rhythm by which the players of Washington Silva Nunes moved on the field, the Serbians players could not follow. Dramatic match against Denmark left a big print on Serbian players who couldn’t have "opened" the defense of Brazil.
Equal result at the end of the first half-time gave the Serbs hope that they will succeed to make a final result in their favor. Brazilians managed to resist the Serbs goal after goal. Brazil made a Step towards the victory two minutes before the end, when they scored two goals and registered the victory, which they celebrated on the field with lot of emotions.

Washington Silva Nunes (selector of Brazil):

In Brazil, we learn a lot from the Serbian handball and against Serbian team we played a good match. Our defense was better than in previous matches, in the attack we made fewer mistakes than in the matches with the previous opponents.

Felipe Borges Ribiero (player of Brazil):

It is important that we won the school of handball like Serbian is, because we have a lot of problems in matches against European teams. Before us are still two matches and we will try to win them both.

Jovica Cvetković (selector of Serbia):

Defeat in the match against Denmark for us was obviously a big shock, because I do not see any other reason why we lost the match against Brazil. We will attempt to rebuild and play well against Norway.

Ratko Nikolic (player of Serbia):

We started this match pretty bad, and, in addition, we undervalued the strength of Brazil’s team, which avenged to us in the end.