Russia performs a walkover against Denmark
Beware of the team of head coach Ivan Belyaev in this European championship. Against Denmark the Russians showed an almost flawless performance and collected an unimperiled 32:19 (17:10) victory. Best scorer of the Russian Federation was Murat Chomaev again with 11 goals.
The Russians took the better start into the match. The late equalization that cost them the victory the day before left the players unfazed. After 15 minutes Roman Storozhev scored the 8:5 for his team and forced the Danes to take their first time-out.
Still the Scandinavians couldn’t improve their game-play. The Russian defence played aggressively and agile like they did against Germany which led to many turnovers for the Danes. Russia always reacted quickly and scored one counter-goal after the other. At half-time the lead had increased to 17:10.
In their first match the Danes had proved that they can turn a game around after a weak half-time even though in the end it resulted in a tie. After 30 minutes they were 9:12 behind and still had a 4 goal lead in between. Unfortunately Louise Karup’s team didn’t manage a similarly energetic performance against Russia.
The East Europeans continued to make use of their superior height. Whenever the Danes scored a simple goal, the Russians countered with a quick centre.
In consequence the lead kept growing to an end result of 32:19. Thus the Russian deaf national team is an almost certain candidate for the semi-finals just like Germany.
Goals Denmark:
Trillingsgaard 5, Löwig 7, Damholt 1, Jensen 4, Kleczewski 2
Goals Russia:
Dremkov 6, Skafar 3, Digurov 3, Storozhev 4, Chomaev 11, Maluev 4, Kitaev 1
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