2024-01-10 07:10:20
The Blues get to the heart of the matter. Winners without trembling of Tunisia (35-26) and Brazil (37-28) during the French tournament, a preparatory competition played in Nantes last weekend, Nikola Karabatic and his teammates are ready to tackle their first big meeting of 2024: the Euro in Germany. A few months before the ultimate objective of the Paris Olympic Games, the French team will try to win a trophy that it has not won since 2014.
To do this, the Blues will first have to escape a tough field made up of the host country Germany, Switzerland and their first opponent, North Macedonia. Already opposed to the Balkan team at Euro 2016 (30-23 victory), the Tricolores have never lost in four confrontations against the team led by former HBC Nantes player, Kiril Lazarov.
France will have the honor of opening this European Championship in the Merkur-Spiel Arena in Düsseldorf, a huge stadium with nearly 55,000 seats which hosts the Fortuna Düsseldorf matches in football configuration, something never before seen in the history of handball. A few hours before Germany’s entry into contention against Switzerland, scheduled for the evening, the Blues should beat the attendance record, currently stuck at 44,189 spectators for a Bundesliga match between Rhein-Neckar and Hamburg ( 28-26), held at the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt, in 2014.
As a reminder, Guillaume Gille’s group is approaching this competition without its historic goalkeeper Vincent Gérard, insufficiently recovered from pubalgia on which he underwent surgery last September. On the other hand, Benoît Kounkoud was reinstated in the group due to the uncertainty linked to the case of Yannis Lenne (low back pain).
France – North Macedonia will kick off this Wednesday, January 10 at 6 p.m. The meeting will be broadcast on BeIN Sports 1.
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