France is champion again in handball to prevail this Saturday 25-23 to Denmark in the final of the Tokyo Games in which the French team made use of its defensive strength. The key to the victory was an exceptional work of the French back that was perfectly reflected in the final steal of the ball of the pivot Ludovic Fabregas and that consummated the triumph of the “Experts”.
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With one man less, after Denmark’s decision to face the last action with seven field players, and hurt, after letting slip an income that reached up to six goals (16-10), the French team applied itself as never before in defense.
This intensity allowed Fabregas to snatch the ball from Mathias Gidsel and score at the empty door the final 25-23, which allowed the French team with its third title of Olympic champion, after the golds won in Beijing 2008 and London 2012.Key players
France knew it had to defend like never before to beat the Danes. The trio of Ludovic Fabregas and the brothers Nikola and Luka Karabatic, who formed a central axis of pure reinforced concrete, was used conscientiously to this task. A challenge for the “light” players for whom Nikolaj Jacobsen bet in these Tokyo Games to accompany Mikkel Hansen in the first line of the Nordic team. Neither centre-back Jacob Holm, let alone electric right-back Mathias Gidsel can compete in kilos and inches with the trio of Gallic defenders. A clear physical superiority that France was willing to assert. Read more: German coach is sent off after hitting a horse in modern Pentathlon finalIt was a problem for the Danes, who, unable to generate the spaces to take advantage of the speed of Holm and Gidsel, saw their power practically reduced to the actions of Mikkel Hansen, who scored half of denmark’s ten goals in the first period. A complicated situation that seemed ready to solve the goalkeeper Niklas Landin, who had barely reached the four minutes of play with three stops, one of them to a penalty kick. Those stops only served to delay the inevitable, the breakaway on the scoreboard of a French team, which did not stop tightening the pegs in defense of its rival. Also applied to that task was goalkeeper Vincent Gerard, who not only replicated each and every one of Niklas Landin’s stops, but ended up effectively surpassing his rival. Their interventions allowed France to reach a little more than two minutes to reach the break a four-goal lead (12-8) that seems like a real treasure, given the low guarismos in which the match moved. But if the French rent seemed a difficult mountain to climb for the Danish team, it did not take long to become an Everest after extending the difference of Guillame Gille to six goals (16-10) just after the start of the second half. It seemed impossible that a team as experienced as the French could let that income slip away, no matter how much it had two stars in front of it the likes of Mikkel Hansen and Niklas Landin,
And the truth is that both Hansen, and especially Landin, who today had unbeatable allies on the sticks, did everything possible to keep the Danish team alive in the final. Read more: India achieves its first Olympic gold in athletics with Chopra in javelinA stamina that found its reward with the double exclusion of Luc Abalo and Dika Mem, which allowed Denmark to enter the last ten minutes of play with just one goal down (22-21) on the scoreboard. Thus, France was profiled to the championship again after losing the final in Rio de Janeiro 2016 with Russia.
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