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Date: 7/27/2013
 

From statistical point of view, Slovenia currently is the second best team at the Men’s Junior World Championship. By beating Serbia in the placement match on Saturday (27 July), they took their eighth victory in Bosnia-Herzegovina like finalist Sweden the day before. But as Sweden is unbeaten and fights for gold, Slovenia had lost one match – unluckily their opener of the knock-out stage against Brazil in the eighth-final. Finally the Slovenians finished on ninth rank. Germany had beaten Hungary in another All-European placement match.


Placement match 11/12:

Germany – Hungary 28:27 (17:12)

Boosted by the goals of initially brilliant left wing Matthias Musche and a strong defence, the Germans easily forged ahead to 10:4, before the Hungarians stopped the downswing. Loudly supported by a Hungarian fans, they bridged the gap to intermediately only three goals at 10:13, as the Germans had problems in scoring in this period. But at the break the distance again was five goals. Despite the hammer goals from the German back court, and though they missed two penalty shots against German goalkeeper Felix Storbeck in a short time, the Hungarians did not surrender early. And with two players more on the court, they grabbed their chance to reduce an intermediate seven goals gap to only 19:23. But that seemed to be the end of their catch-up chase already: As Storbek improved and the Hungarians caused more technical mistakes than before, the Germans managed to keep a clear distance until the 25:19. But the roller coaster turned again: As Germany received a huge number of two minute suspensions, Hungary reduced goal by goal-and suddenly everything was open again from 26:25 on. 25 seconds before the end at the score of 28:27, Patrick Schmidt not only caused a turnover, but received a red card after attacking the Hungarian goalkeeper. Hungary had the last attack – but failed to score. Best scorers were Balasz Szollosi with eight goals for Hungary and Musche and Simon Ernst by five goals each for Germany.

 

Placement match 9/10:

Serbia – Slovenia 30:33 (12:15)

Slovenia was constantly in lead from minute ten until the halftime buzzer. Their back court shooters were unstoppable by the Serbian defence, and at 13:9 the gap was four goals for the first time. At the break the Serbs still were down by three, but arrived much more focus and passionate on the court. While the Slovenians had problems to score, Serbia – led by Bogdan Radivojevic – scored a 5:0 series to turn the match at 17:15. The Slovenians had lost their rhythm and were too far away from the Serbs in defence – but finally stopped their downswing by a 8:3 series and were again away by three goals at 23:20. Serbia countered to 24:24 –and the match had become a private duel of the top shooters of both teams: The equalizer was the sixth of goal of Radivojevic, but Slovenian Mario Sostaric stroke back: His eighth of ten goals was the 25:24, and thanks to his double strike Slovenia again forged ahead to three goals at 29:26. But though Radivojevic added in total eight goals on his tally, his team lost – and latest was beaten at 29:32 three minutes before the end.

 

Final ranking 9 - 24:

9. Slovenia

10. Serbia

11. Germany

12. Hungary

13. Denmark

14. Bosnia-Herzegovina

15. Tunisia

16. Argentina

17. Russia

18. Korea

19. Qatar

20. Kuwait

21. Angola

22. Congo

23. Chile

24. Algeria

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