The Blues dominated the Norwegian vice-world champion on Thursday night.

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The France team delivered a great match on Thursday evening for their entry into the Egyptian World Cup and won (28-24) against Norway, vice-champion of the double title.

What to give a big

boost

of confidence to this group for the rest of the competition.

Day and night with Serbia.

If we had known we would have wet the back of our necks before the match… Arrived at this Egyptian World Cup with the fear meter and the confidence gauge at - 8000, the fault of two very average matches against Serbia at the beginning of the month, the team de France de hand surprised everyone Thursday by outrageously dominating the Norwegian vice-world champions for their entry into the competition.

Offensive entry, the men of Guillaume Gille showed a lot of solidarity, desire and determination throughout the meeting.

All that we hadn't seen facing the Serbs, basically.

And even if the teammates of Sagosen have missed their subject a little, it would be necessary to be dishonest to minimize this first tricolor success.

A statue for Wesley Pardin.

Big thumbs up by the way for the new coach Guillaume Gille, who finally holds his first big tactical blow as

boss

of the Blues.

The former Dinart assistant has in fact chosen to trust Wesley Pardin rather than Vincent Gérard in the goals at the kick-off, a choice that has proven to more than pay off for the Blues.

The goalkeeper of Pays d'Aix, in Liddl Starligue, has simply taken control of the Norwegian brains from a distance, disgusting them all in turn with parades from space.

On arrival, an insolent success close to 50% Thursday evening!

Delirium for the one who played there his very first match in a World Cup.

The new kid (31 years old) has surely won his number one ticket for the next match, Saturday against Austria.

"It was my 1st World Championship match, it was a surprise to start, I wanted to do the best possible" Pardin


No doubt, it was perfect 👌 #FRANOR pic.twitter.com/OPaeSv9Ryu

- Esprit Handball Caisse d'Epargne (@EspritHandball) January 14, 2021

The Blues go to the locker room.

We told you, we would not have bet a quarter of Brie on this team at the start of the World Cup, but it is clear that we will perhaps have to rely on the French in the end.

It must also be said that they had well hidden their game the bastards ... But now, high level sport is so that it sometimes takes three times nothing to regain the confidence lost for many months.

At this rate, if the team shows the same face in the coming days, it is not impossible that France will quickly swap its outsider jacket for a three-piece suit of (almost) favorites.

What a life.

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