Cuba forced to beat Cape Verde in Men's Handball World Cup

 

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 20 (ACN) With the need to win to advance to the next stage of the Men's Handball World Championship, the Cuban national team will face its counterpart from Cape Verde Monday, in the last day of Group G, which is being held in Zagreb, Croatia.

The Caribbean team is coming to its third game in the World Championship, after losing its first two matches, 19-41 against the Slovenians and 19-40 against the Icelanders.

Their rival this Monday in the global championship organized by Denmark, Norway and the aforementioned Croatia, also suffered the same fate in their first two games, 21-34 against Iceland and 24-36 against Slovenia; but with an average of goals scored and conceded of -25, better than the Cubans who have the worst goal differential of the competition with -43.

Granma newspaper journalist Iris de la Cruz Saborit points out that the game against Iceland was almost a copy of the one against Slovenia: many turnovers and little effectiveness in the attack, while the Icelanders shot 50 times, the Cubans tried 51 times.

We have to turn the page, point out what we have done wrong and encourage the group to go for it all, it depends on us, said Jover Hernandez, coach of the Cuban national team, discreetly to the Cuban News Agency, after the last defeat.

The winner of the match between the Caribbeans and the Africans will advance to the last 24 of the world championship that meant the return of Cuba to world events, 16 years after having also competed in the Croatian capital.