The Spanish women's handball team was guaranteed on Tuesday a Pre-Olympic for Tokyo 2020 after beating Japan with a lot of work by 31-33 in the World Cup , a triumph that keeps him undefeated and that also leaves him at the gates of the semifinals of the championship .
The first objective with which the 'Warriors' traveled to Japan is already guaranteed. The long-awaited Pre-Olympic to return to the country of the Rising Sun in summer is already in his possession, but one perhaps somewhat more unexpected at the start of the tournament, the fight for the medals, is very close in the absence of playing this Wednesday against Russia and will be guaranteed if Sweden does not win Romania. If it does, everything will remain in the hands of the 'average' if there is a point draw with the Swedes.
But it was not easy to get both. The hosts, without pressure (nothing was played and are classified for the Games), reacted when the picture was worse for them and took advantage of the 'blackout' in the offensive game suffered by Carlos Viver when they had escaped five goals.
The Asians came to get ahead and the 'ghosts' of the duel against Sweden threatened to return, but the huge work and game of Ainhoa Hernández , the lucidity in the final stretch of Alicia Fernández and actions in specific moments of Silvia Navarro prevented another scare.
The match was very close from the beginning to the final stretch of the first half. Spain did not find its ends, but in the pivot where Ainhoa Hernández already made clear from minute 1 that it was going to be a headache for the Japanese, unable to stop it.
Despite the goals of the Basque and Nerea Pena , the national team was not able to take off in the electronic until the final measures. A rival exclusion drove a partial 0-4 and the first gap just to rest, with seven meters stopped by Darly Zoqbi included (13-17). LOSSES COMPLICATE LIFE TO SPAIN
In the resumption, those of Carlos Viver continued very focused on his defense and it seemed that they could break the match definitively (14-19) when they got stuck in attack. Losses appeared without brake and the hosts got back into the game (21-21), causing the dead time of Carlos Viver.
Japan also showed its innocence at that time and was not able to deal a major blow to an opponent, to whom the defense did not work at its best level either. The hostesses got ahead just over ten minutes to go (25-24), but there their options ran out.
Silvia Navarro stopped a vital seven meters, Alicia Fernández commanded the improvement in the Spanish offensive fluency and Ainhoa Hernández appeared on both sides of the track so that the 'Warriors' opened a key difference of three goals, already impossible for the Japanese.
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