Domagoj Duvnjak appears at the Tele2 Arena in Stockholm, leans on his knees, hurts, walks half a lame and "Ugh, I'm fatal!" He exclaims. The very high Luka Stepancic follows , repeats the liturgy and admits: "The truth, I haven't slept at all." Accompany Igor Vori, assistant coach of coach Lino Cervar , look at his and "my mother, we are dead," he laments. Croatia appears in the final of this European this Sunday (16.30, Teledeporte) waving the white flag and how much advantage Spain is supposed to have and how much danger this rival has. The wear suffered by the Balkan team against Norway in the semifinals, with five players -Duvnjak, Stepancic, Zlatko Horvat, Igor Karacic and David Mandic - over 60 minutes of play makes the team that directs Jordi Ribera the gold favorite , but at the same time it presents a trap. If at any time you have to fear until Croatia is when you are injured, when you can no longer.

«We are very emotional, warm-blooded, when we are on we give everything. The next day we are for the drag, you see us, but as soon as the next game starts, start over. In the two extensions against Norway we proved it, but we had already done it before: in the group stage, against Germany, we lost five and we won and against Spain, we lost six and we tied. It's our character, ”says Vori, who was the pivot of Barcelona from 2005 to 2007 and retired in 2018. His generation, the one led by Ivano Balic , lost the two European finals played by Croatia, in 2008 and 2010, but, according to he, that now does not suppose a pressure: «What goes, what goes, these players are very young, maybe they didn't even see those games. Gold in the European is the only medal that my country lacks, but they won't weigh that on them.

With the tie in the group stage as a precedent and with the fatigue of Croatia as a hoax, Spain must take the game to its ground, to the fluid handball, to the speed in the game, and to flee from the battle that its rival will pose, of Everything sentimental. The more the environment cools, the more options the team will have to win, more in a pavilion that, as it already happened in the semifinals, will be packed with Croatian fans. With the direct ticket to the Tokyo Olympic Games as a prize, again the ball circulation and the launch of Alex Dujshebaev will be essential to open the tight Balkan defense. In the group stage, Croatia against Spain hung on Karacic's arm, which reached ten points, but this time the central Duvnjak and the Marino Maric pivot will have more prominence. Who does not seem to play is Luka Cindric , who drags a muscle injury and yesterday did not even train. Croatia is sore, "ugh!", "Ugh!", All are groans, and so perhaps it is an even greater threat.

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