Match Analysis: Denmark Vs. Hungary

by Mário Cesar Navarro 25th IHF Women's World Championship, Handball Analysis

Today started the main round of the 25th IHF Women’s World Championship with a highly anticipated match between the teams of Denmark and Hungary.

Denmark reaches this stage with 4 points, while Hungary starts with 2 points due to the defeat against Germany.

This way, Hungary needs a win to aspire to reach the quarter-finals, while a victory for the Danish team puts them on track to reach the quarter-finals.

Stay with another detailed analysis of a fantastic and exciting handball match.

The Magyar team started the game more focused, taking advantage of the Danish team’s anxiety. However, five goals scored and one conceded led to the Danish team taking the lead in the 17th minute before the break. This way, the Danish team went into the break leading by four goals.

It is essential to highlight that both teams bet in the first half on fast attacks, where they made several attempts to explore the counter-attack supported and quick attacks, but without getting the desired results.

In a highly balanced first half, the difference was in shooting efficiency. Denmark was slightly better with 65%, while Hungary had a shooting efficiency of 48%.

However, we had a very different second half, where Denmark showed their superiority while Hungary was disappearing from the game.

In Denmark, their goalkeeper shone with 11 saves in the second half, leading Hungary to a total lack of control without creating dangerous situations and missing two empty goal situations.

With this result, Denmark climbed to the first position of group III with 6 points in equal points with Germany, being one win away from qualifying for the quarter-finals of the 25th Women’s World Championship.

Stay with some data about this great match.

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Mário Cesar Navarro
Portuguese handball coach with over 15 years of experience coaching both male and female youth and senior teams. Passionate about game analysis and coaching.