The Spanish women’s handball team took its second victory against Egypt this Saturday at the International Spanish Tournament in Torrevieja, its last appointment before the start of Europe 2022, after a match where it improved compared to the first duel and always ahead of an inferior opponent. when it is.
Petreri José Ignacio Prades, the head coach of the women’s national team, did not test at the beginning of the match as he had against Tunisia the previous day and played his usual 6-0 defense, which resulted in the Spanish team not conceding a goal. three minutes later and the successful Sole López and Paula Arcos started on offense (5-1, min.6).
“Guerreras” easily recovered the ball and went on to counterattack, and although Egypt’s quick serve looked like they would punish the Spaniards (7-5), they soon sorted this imbalance out and accompanied them. Stops de Merche Castellanos began to distance themselves in the light.
Nineteen minutes later, Spain doubled the score against Egypt as they tried to beat «Guerreras» by outside kicks (12-6), but the Spanish team were solid and took advantage with a solvent attack that took advantage of the Egyptians’ numerous losses. to reach the time-out with an income of eight goals (19–11).
Paula Arcos is the best
Spain, who started the second half in Aalla’s castle and with the same offensive determination, quickly went ahead by 10 goals. As in the first half, the superiority of the national team was marked by Spain’s 34-23 score.
Egypt barely bothered or did not bother the “Guerreras”, who played a more aggressive and more serious game in this second test and were only erratic in losses and certain rainfall, aspects that need improvement for the Europeans if they want to move forward internationally. competition.
In addition, Paula Arcos, who scored 4 goals from Petrerina, received the best player of the match (MVP) award. The Prades-led team closes the Torrevieja tournament against Switzerland this Sunday (13:00, Teledeporte) in a duel between the two undefeated teams.
DATA SHEET
SPAIN: Castellanos (p), Aalla (ps); Campos (2), Arrojeria (1), Gutierrez (6), Spugnini (1), López (4), Gassama (2), RodrÃguez (2), Valdivia (2), EspÃnola (3), Tchaptchet (3), Arcos (4) and Barbosa (4).
EGYPT: Menna, Abdelmoneim, Hesham (4), Omar (3), Hossam (2), Elshazly, Hatem, Moussa (1), Khaled (1), Zaki (3), Seoudy (1), Atef (2), Kamel, Hany (1), Yahya (2), Ayman, Mokhtar (1) and Sabry (2).
EACH 5′ POINTS: 5-1, 6-4, 9-6, 12-6, 15-7, 19-11 (rest); 21-11, 25-13, 26-15, 27-17, 30-21 and 34-23.
REFEREES: Axel Riloba and Alejandro Hoz. They excluded Campos, Spugnini, Tchaptchet and Barbosa from Spain and Khaled, Seoudy and Atef from Egypt.
CORNER: Sports Palace (Torrevieja). The second match corresponding to the Spanish International Tournament.
Source: Informacion
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