France does not know the word friendly and on Thursday in Paris they crushed the Hispanics 44-33 (25-15). Severe corrective before 14,000 spectators who they erased with a stroke of the pen the good news that the return of the Dujshebaevs, Álex and Dani, together in the Spanish team fourteen months later meant for Jordi Ribera’s National Team; the debut of the extreme Jorge Serrano, or the touches of quality of the young Ander Izquierdo. That yes, hardly 48 hours after the setback a new opportunity arrives since today in Chambery (9:00 p.m., Teledeporte) the duel is repeated.
“France are a great rival, it is very difficult to play against them. It is very hard, but you have to learn from all the defeats. We have to raise our heads, take out the positive and compete again on Saturday”, explained Gedeón Guardiola, captain and pivot of the Hispanics, making it clear that the revenge and, above all, improving the image is the number one point in the script for today’s match. Without a doubt, one of the things that needs to improve considerably in the Spanish team is the movement of the ball and avoid as much as possible the numerous turnovers they had on Thursday and that led to many easy goals for the French.
Other aspect The essential thing will be to increase patience in attack, very erratic in the first friendly match, and strengthen the defense, which gave a huge number of opportunities to take the hosts to tremendously high scoring digits for the current Olympic champion in Tokyo in her matches against Spain, current world bronze, Olympic and European silver.