The Croatian handball team played a decisive match for the first place in the group against Egypt and unfortunately lost with a score of 28:24.
Egypt transfers four points to the second round, and Croatia two. With this defeat, Croatia’s path to the quarter-finals is much more difficult.
In the sixth minute, the Egyptians took a four-goal advantage (6:2), so Croatia was constantly catching up. In the 21st minute, Ivan Martinović had a chance to equalize at 9:9, but after the goalkeeper of Egypt Mohamed Aly defended his attempt to penetrate, started a streak of three consecutive goals for his national team.
It was Aly who was the first name of the first half with eight saves and led the way Egypt to an advantage of 14:11. Ahmed Hesham was the top scorer with four goals, while he scored six goals for Croatia Ivan Martinović.
Croatian goalkeeper Dominik Kuzmanović started the game a bit slower, but managed to make six saves with one goal scored.
At the beginning of the resumption, it was goal for goal, and Croatia came to -1 in the 39th minute, when Marin Jelinic scored in 19:18.
They are re-elected Dagura Sigurdsson had an attack to equalize, a Martinovic then it shakes the city. From that moment, Croatia sank.
Croatian handball players did not score a goal for almost 10 minutes, which the Egyptians took advantage of and ran away with four goals in a row to a five-goal lead. By the end of the game, Croatia could not get closer than -4, which was the final difference.
The most efficient player of Croatia was Ivan Martinović with six goals, but from 13 attempts, while Filip Glavaš scored five. Kuzmanović collected 10 defenses, a Ivan Pešić three in seven shots. He was great with the Egyptians Mohamed Aly with 14 saves, while the best scorers were Omar Yahia with six goals and Seif Elderaa with one less.
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