Israel’s reserve handball team opened today (Saturday) its performances in the European Under-20 Championship, the secondary tier, in a 26:32 (11:18) victory over Luxembourg. The clear goal of the tournament in Bulgaria is to achieve first place – and qualify for the World Cup qualifiers up to the age of 21. Tomorrow at 15:00 the second game of the reserve against Great Britain will take place (and on Wednesday and Thursday the first stage will be completed To the semi-final stage).
The reserve team started the game today not well, and found themselves 4: 1 behind, but Nadav Cohen, Or Levy and Tom Leibov knew how to bring it back to a tie – and Roy Solomon set up a reversal and took the first lead – 7: 8 (16 ‘). From there – there was only one team on the field, and Libov, Or Levy, Nadav Cohen, Or Maman and a wonderful goal in the “Hali-Hop” between the twins Solomon, with Sean Mussar to Roy who finished – led the team to 11:18 at the half time break.
The second half opened with goals from Roi Liebgut and Or Maman (3 in a row), and the team went up to 14:22. Liel Gadz, Hapoel Ashdod’s goalkeeper, who was called to the squad at the last minute (Tal Peled is in a verified country for Corona and may join the rest of the games next week) – showed good ability (9 stops in total). Or Levy took a record lead – 14:24, and almost In the final stages, Luxembourg had already reduced the deficit to just minus 4 goals, but Nir Edri’s penalty stop, and goals by Or Levy who was chosen as the game’s outstanding player and Roy Solomon’s last goal (from a smart pass by Assaf Ohayon) signed – 26:32.
Or Levy was selected at the end to excel with 10 goals (5 of them from the field, 5 on penalties, and another 6 assists). Nadav Cohen finished with 6, Or Maman with 5 (one hundred percent), Tom Leibov and Roy Solomon 3 each, Roi Liebgut 2, Assaf Ohayon, Alon Shulman and Sean Solomon 1 each. Partner – Uri Gaz, Barak Carmon, Ariel Bitton and Gal Azriel.