The Danish national team continued its campaign to retain the title of the World Handball Championship for men for the second consecutive edition, after qualifying for the semi-final round of the competition, after beating his Egyptian counterpart 4-3 in the quarter-finals of the tournament, which is currently being held in Egypt.
The Egyptian team tried to keep up with its Danish counterpart, who is considered one of the most prominent candidates to win the World Cup and was a real match for the "descendants of the Vikings", and came very close to achieving the surprise by climbing to the golden square, but the penalty shootout had a different opinion.
The Pharaohs team took the lead during the first minutes of the first half, but the Danes quickly regained the lead, to settle the first half with a score of 16-13.
In the second half, the Egyptian national team returned to control the match again, thanks to the brilliance of its stars, to end the normal time with a draw 28-28 and the two teams ruled for an additional time of 10 minutes divided equally into two halves.
The tie remained in the first overtime, after a 34-34 tie, to let the two teams rule for another additional time, but the tie remained in control of the match with a score of 35-35, to resort to penalties that smiled at the end to the Danes, and the Egyptian team was prevented from repeating its achievement by qualifying for the half The World Cup Final, which he achieved only once in the 2001 edition of the competition in France.
In addition to the extension of additional times, the match witnessed moments of nerve tension in the last second of each additional period, as one of the Danish players committed a mistake in the first additional period that allowed Egypt to equalize in the last second, and the matter reversed in the second additional stage when an Egyptian player committed a mistake. For the Danes to tie in the last second.