The Danes won their third World Cup in a row this Sunday, at the expense of the French, who lost the second final in their history.
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LDenmark shattered France’s men’s handball team’s dream of a seventh planetary title by dominating the 2023 World Cup final 34 to 29 in Stockholm on Sunday. The Blues, Olympic champions in 2021 in Tokyo, forgot the first ten nightmarish minutes, leaving the Danes with an unprecedented three-course (2019, 2021, 2023) in the history of the Men’s World Cup.
Luka Karabatic and his teammates, destabilized by the Danish aggressiveness and the efficiency of fullback Simon Pytlick, completely missed the start of their final: after fifteen minutes of play they were 12-7 down. But the Blues let the storm pass and came back on the scoreline little by little to enter the dressing room with a single goal behind (16-15) under the impetus of Nedim Remili (five goals in the first period).
“He Didn’t Miss Much”
Thanks to Dika Mem, France came back to match the Danes at the start of the second period (16-16), but never managed to get ahead and were even relegated to four lengths (31-27) five minutes after the final whistle ). . Despite a final burst to get back to two points (31-29), the Blues failed to reverse the situation and offer Nikola Karabatic a fifth and final world title for his last appearance at 38 in a World Cup.
“We didn’t manage to come back in the second half. It was complicated. They played well, but he didn’t miss much,” captain Luka Karabatic analyzed at BeIN Sports.
