The final day in Stockholm begins with two placement matches. For the second time at Poland/Sweden 2023, Germany will face Norway in search of their first World Championship win against the Scandinavian side. The second ones to take the court will be Egypt and Hungary, lining up for seventh place.
Germany secured the battle for fifth place at the 28th IHF Men's World Championship after an exciting finish to the match. After trailing two times by seven, Egypt kept coming back to life, managed to level and push the match into extra time. One name stood out in a very close match: Andreas Wolff and his 20 saves, helping his team get a narrow win after 70 minutes.
Placement Matches 5-8
Germany vs Egypt 35:34 after extra time (30:30, 17:14)
Nikolaj Jacobsen and his Denmark squad must have been sick of hearing about all the mathematics and permutations for the past 48 hours about their final main round group IV match at the 2023 IHF Men’s World Championship.
‘If Croatia do this’, ‘Denmark need to do this’. What was certain was that after Croatia beat Bahrain earlier today by 11 goals, Denmark just needed to not lose against Egypt tonight, and if they did, not by more than 10 goals. In the end, the title-holders took a five-goal lead in a match where they were never behind.
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The penultimate day of matches at the Malmö Arena in the 2023 IHF Men's World Championship could see everything decided in group IV of the main round.
In the opening match of the day, if Egypt defeat Bahrain, the North African side will move up to eight points and cannot finish lower than second in the group.