The French bowed in Serbia – Pedja Milosavljevic / SIPA
Failed start for Guillaume Gille as coach of the French handball team . His players lost in Serbia (24 – 24) in a match counting for the qualifiers for the Euro of hand 2022. The Blues will have a second chance against the
Serbs Saturday evening, this time in Créteil, after which they will fly to Egypt and the World Cup. A priori without great certainties on their level.
Against the Serbs, the France team stammered its game, as was the case in January 1303 in Norway, and lost in Serbia by three goals for her first Euro qualifying match 2022. “Even if our team is under reconstruction, we will quickly have to be more efficient than today,” tweeted Valentin Porte after the meeting.
Penalized by improper use of the ball
“He missed a lot of ingredients. Finding themselves using the ball so badly over the duration of the match, stumbling over the goalkeeper, being so careless with the ball, that put the Serbs in the match and allowed them to take the leadership of the match ”, regretted Guillaume Gille after the meeting.
To travel to Hungary and Slovakia in January 2022, the French will have to take one of the first two places in group 1, which also includes Belgium and Greece, or finish among the best four thirds of the eight qualifying groups.