MADRID, Jan. 9 (SportsFinding) –
The coach of the Spanish men's handball team, Jordi Ribera, said that his pupils had “known how to adapt to everything that was happening” during the match against Latvia, which on Thursday has meant a premiere with victory (33-22) in the European Championship.
“Given that it was the first game, I think we have adapted to everything that was going on throughout the game and in the end we have taken an advantage of 11 goals,” Ribera told the official media of the Royal Federation Handball Spanish.
“It is clear that, when you stay with two less players, the rotations are disturbed and I think that the team, as I have always said, is very involved. And I knew that that would generate more difficulties,” he said about Jorge's expulsions Maqueda and Viran Morros by direct red.
“But in the second part, despite the absence of Jorge and Viran in the defensive work, we have been well. We have recovered balls and Gonzalo (Pérez de Vargas) has been very good in the goal, taking out also important balls,” he said. told.
Similarly, Ribera has highlighted the efforts of the 'Hispanics' in defense. “I think that the mixed one, 5/1 … We have revolutionized their attack a bit and that has helped us to recover balls to go out to counterattack. They are matches that we must try to break so as not to reach the end with a tight result” , said about it.
“The marking of Kristopans is always complicated when it has an advantage, especially when it is fresh. In the first part it has generated problems, as it had to be because each team that qualifies has its characteristics; and the characteristic of this team is the Kristopans participation, “he stressed.
“And the others obviously know how to play. The goal has taken us a few balls at the beginning, which were balls to enter, balls that were theoretically six meters; but they have not entered and maybe that has generated us some anxiety”, has finally admitted