The Spaniards had a great second half and debuted with a victory over Slovenia.
questiona few minutes before the start of the match AC/DC’s “Road to Hell” played at the glamorous Arena 6 South Paris at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris.Perhaps it was a premonition of what was to come for the ‘Latin Americans’ in their Group A debut at these Olympics, as Slovenia did not make life easy for Jordi Ribera’s pupils.
Fortunately, great teams know how to survive in hell And that’s what Spain did in a match where they had to trail until midway through the second half, when they came out ahead with their best option.
The start of the match was not particularly promising for the interests of the Spaniards, apart from the score. from the feeling conveyed by a team bogged down in attack – and awakening the ghosts of the past European Championship –. To such an extent that in the middle of the first half (15 minutes) they had barely scored four goals and were losing by two.
Then Clemen FerlinSlovenian goalkeeper, became an almost insurmountable wall, but Perez de Vargas did not lag behind and kept the Hispanos afloat.. Slovenian advantages remained, but they were meager and The second Balkan elimination made possible a 2-0 intermediate victory for Spain.who, six minutes before the end, took the lead on the scoreboard for the second time (8-7)
The thing is, heJordi Ribera’s men won’t be able to score more before the breakwhich resulted in a very worrying partial score of 0-4. The 8-11 score at half-time was the most obvious sign that something was not working. and statistics confirmed this, because The effectiveness of the “Latinos” was barely 40 percent (8/20) in his shots on goal. Dean Bomback, With five hits from 7 meters, he became the executioner of the Spanish team.
“Latinos” meet again
The second half began with a more dynamic and motivated Spain, to the point that in 15 minutes they had already scored more goals than in the entire first half (1716). It was the time of the “Latin Americans”, who They rode on the back of the inspired Perez de Vargas.Slovenian nightmare at the beginning of the second period.
Two goals almost in a row Agustin Casado and Jorge Maqueda increased their lead to three goals (19-16). Now they were the “Latin Americans” at big events, but there was a whole world ahead…
Actually, Slovenia trailed by just one goal, but Spain withstood Balkan arson and four minutes before the end a penalty was scored Aleix Gomez With four minutes left in the match, he again increased the lead to three goals.
A robbery and a subsequent goal from Dani Fernandes with one minute and 10 seconds left finally rang the bell. The final score of 25-22 was the best possible start, especially considering how the game started. Next Monday (16:00) against Sweden, the demand will be even higher…
DATA SHEET:
Spain: Gonzalo Perez de Vargas, Rodrigo Corrales, Agustin Casado (2), Alex Duyshebaev (2), Daniel Duyshebaev (5), Daniel Fernandez (4), Imanol Garciandia, Aleix Gomez (7, 3 points), Jorge Maqueda (3), Cauldi Odriozola, Javier Rodriguez (1), Moreno, Miguel Sanchez-Migallon, Abel Serdio and Ian Tarrafeta (1).
Slovenia: Klemen Ferlin, Urban Lesyak, Blaz Blagotinsek (1), Nick Henigman, Blaz Janc (2), Jure Dolenec (1), Stas Jovicic, Tilen Kodrin (4), Micha Zarabec (2), Kristjan Horzen (3), Dean Bombak (5, 5p), Borut Mackovek (1), Domen Novak (1) and Alex Vlach (2).
Marker: 1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-6, 8-7, 8-11, 11-13, 13-14, 17-16, 19-17, 22-20, 25-22.
Judges: C. Bonaventure and G. Bonaventure (France)
Incidents: The match took place at the Arena 6 South Paris in front of approximately 5,000 spectators.