Handball: Brazil is one victory away from the quarterfinals of the Women's World Cup
The women's handball team debuted with victory in the second phase of the World Cup of the modality, which is held in Spain, by defeating Austria this Wednesday (8) by 38-31. It was the fourth triumph in four games for the Lionesses, as it is The Brazilian team, world champion for eight years and that is looking for the second title, is known.
🇧🇷🆚🇦🇹 Brazil cruise to a win over Austria, 38:31, and remain undefeated at #Spain2021 🔥 #sheloveshandball pic.twitter.com/1QulISe5Cj
— International Handball Federation (@ihf_info) December 8, 2021
Brazil returns to the court this Friday (10), at 2:30 pm (Brasilia time), against Argentina, again in the Spanish town of Torrevieja. If he wins, he guarantees one of the two spots in Group 4 at the quarter-finals.
The bracket brings together six teams, three classified from Group G (Brazil, Japan and Croatia) and three from Group H (Austria, Argentina and Spain). The Brazilians started the second phase already with the four points obtained in the victories over the Japanese and Croatians, whom they will not face again. The triumph over the Austrians took the Lionesses to six points, at the top of Group 4, and could share it with the Spanish, if the hosts beat the eastern ones on this fourth.
Tamires Araújo, with six goals, was the Brazilian top scorer in the match and also voted best on the court. Twelve more players scored in the game, ten of them from the lineup - Bruna de Paula, Giulia Guarieiro (both five goals), Jéssica Quintino, Adriana Doce (both four), Patrícia Matieli (three), Francielle da Rocha, Ana Paula Belo ( both two), Mariane Fernandes, Larissa Araújo and Thais Fermo (all one) - and the goalkeepers Babi Arenhart (three) and Renata Arruda (one).
The Lionesses were superior for most of the game. In the first half, they opened up six goals from the front, but conceded the reaction to Austria, who drew at 15-15 just before the break. In the second stage, Brazil took advantage of the infractions committed by rivals, which yielded two minutes with an extra athlete. In order not to be inferior in line, the Europeans spent that time playing without the goalkeeper, which allowed several goals with the goal unprotected and the construction of an advantage that, this time, was administered by the Brazilians.
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