Six main round spots already confirmed at Croatia 2016

The second day at the Men’s 18 EHF EURO 2016 in Croatia has decided quite a few things as six teams already qualified for the main round.

France, Spain, Slovenia, Denmark, Germany and Serbia can start planning for the tournament’s next phase, while it is only in Group C in which a decision still awaits, as Croatia, Sweden and Iceland still have the chance to proceed.

However, the final day of the preliminary round on Sunday – Saturday is a rest day – is far from being pointless, as this day will decide which teams take valuable points with them to the main round as well as to the intermediate round, the stage at which the teams ranked third and fourth in the preliminary round meet.

All games are streamed live on the Croatian federation’s Youtube channel.

Germany lead Group D in confident fashion

In Group A, Spain made it to the next phase courtesy of a 29:25 win against Switzerland, while France qualified for the main round with a 31:24 win against Norway – and they had some very prominent handball people in the crowd as the great Ivano Balic (photo below) was watching.

In Group B, Denmark and Slovenia had won their respective first match on Thursday and with their second consecutive win they qualified for the main …

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