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"When O'Sullivan stays, take advantage, go out and come back in", "watch out when Jondal comes in inferiority" and so ...

Joan Cañellas

,

Dani Sarmiento

or

Raúl Entrerríos

speak

and it is a time-out, but the coach, Jordi Ribera does not need to intervene because he knows that in 4 or 5 years the players in front of him will be among the best coaches in the world and will win titles, many titles.

Spain always regrets the lack of centimeters, even kilos, but there is no team with more ideas.

If handball is an art, this generation has mastered all techniques and hence its successes: in the last six World Cups, four times in the semifinals without counting the two consecutive Europeans won.

The victory against Norway (31-26) in the quarterfinals highlights some names, a strange fact for this team, but it was a new collective success.

The mastery of one's own virtues is remarkable and, more importantly, the control of one's own defects is absolute.

An example was the performance of pivot

Rubén Marchán

.

A decade with the same method, Spain was already doing it with

Julen Aguinagalde

: the lure.

Only one Spanish player,

Álex Dujshebaev

, can create his own goals, trust in his launch and that is why the rest dance, in perfect choreography, to get an advantage over the goalkeeper.

In the first minutes against Norway, Marchán was placed, as Aguinagalde did before, as the center of the game and his teammates looked for him again and again, again and again.

His goals arrived, one, two and three, and when the pivot, the only rookie of the national team, was already focusing the attention of the rival defense, the rest took the opportunity to enjoy.

The whole team - especially Jorge Maqueda - got carried away and, at halftime, the game seemed resolved (21-15).

Sagosen's disappearance

Norway's comeback was impossible after the injury at 15 minutes of their leader, their scorer, their best defender, their everything,

Sander Sagosen

.

The best player in the world, tired from the many minutes played in the group stage, hurt his knee, had to go to the locker room and disappeared from the match.

It was a knockout.

But after the break, his teammates -especially O'Sullivan and Johannessen-, prominent in the Bundesliga, wanted to vindicate themselves, always in the shadow of Sagosen, and forced them to return to the ring.

With six minutes left unmarked, Spain's lead fell to dangerous three goals on several occasions and the national team then practiced their best idea: keep it simple.

With Marchán's movements as a constant danger, the best of the team, Alex Dujshebaev, took control, shot when the ball became square and generated for the rest.

In the goal, with the barbarity of 19 stops,

Rodrigo Corrales

confirmed that Jordi Ribera's method, who alternates a goalkeeper in each game, works, it does work.

Two minutes from the end of the match, despite the tension in the second half, the Spanish bench was already celebrating a new semifinal and a new view there, one step away from the podium, a more than known adversary: ​​Denmark.

Denmark, on penalties

The Nordic team escaped the fire against Egypt (39-38) in the best game there has ever been and quite possibly there will be in this World Cup.

Two extra time were played and penalties were reached.

In the first, Denmark sentenced, but a childish error by their reference,

Mikkel Hansen

, regained the tie.

In the second, Egypt dominated, but a childhood error by Ibrahim El-Masry led to penalties.

The tension, exaggerated despite the empty stands, only faded on the fifth pitch when

Niklas Landin

was huge and Lasse Svan, a man who had not scored from seven meters for five years, scored the final goal.

The current Olympic and world champion will be the new challenge of this triumphant, wise, eternal group.

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