SUMMARY: Race to EHF EURO 2024 continues apace in round 2
The road to the Men's EHF EURO 2024 in Germany continued with round 2 of the qualifiers, and the EHF EURO Cup 2024. The live blog followed all the action in the 16 matches across Europe.
21:33
Montenegro show their might with a powerful win away to Bosnia Herzegovina in our round 2 highlight match.
Milos Vujovic and Nemanja Grbovic each found the net seven times.
Bosnia Herzegovina 25:36 Montenegro
21:08
All over in Prishtina and Slovenia make it two wins from two in EURO 2024 Qualifiers. Blaz Janc led the way in scoring with a 100% shooting record of six goals from six shots.
20:57
The start of the game was complicated, but we grew during the match and we are happy with the final result. We played a good game, scoring 40 goals, so we did a good job.
20:53
20:40
All over and Austria claim a second EURO 2024 Qualifiers win, meanwhile in the highlight match Montenegro are well in control at half-time.
Bosnia Herzegovina 11:21 Montenegro
20:18
19:52
19:50
Olympic champions France retain the trans-Alpine bragging rights after beating Italy in Pescara. It was a convincing win with Nicolas Tournat leading the way with seven points and Timothy N'guessan adding a further six.
19:41
Highlight match hosts Bosnia Herzegovina are chasing their first win of the EURO 2024 Qualifiers after going down 28:20 away to Slovenia in round 1.
It was a better week for Macedonia who got the Qualifiers off to a winning start, by defeating Kosovo 29:20.
19:35
It is an impressive win on the road for Serbia.
18:14
Finally we have a home victory and it is Romania whose fans will be celebrating in familiar surrounds after a 34:26 win over Ukraine.
Demis Cosmin Grigoras was Romania's hero with nine goals, while Nicusor Andrei Negru weighed in with seven.
18:01
17:57
The fixtures continue to come thick and fast, and there are two more mouth-watering clashes coming up at 18.00
Head to EHFTV.com to watch all the action and see all the drama (Geo-restrictions may apply)
17:45
Three more EURO 2024 Qualifiers are now over and it is another three away wins
17:37
What a finish in Gothenburg!
Denmark closed the gap to Sweden to one point with a minute to go thanks to Mikkel Hansen. After a time-out, Sweden went on the attack and after Lukas Sandell had a goal ruled out, Oscar Bergendahl did find the net for the hosts to end any hopes of a Danish comeback.
I am really pleased with our performance today. In the first half, we played very well in defence and with a lot of variety in attack. We got a tough start in the second half and were three goals behind, but we really showed good morale when we turned it around and won.
16:41
16:40
It is half-time in our 16.00 (CEST) starts. Here's how the stand so far.
EURO 2024 Qualifiers
EURO Cup 2024
16:32
Another win for Norway, this time triumphing 22:35 over nordic rivals Finland. Norway featured 13 scorers, with Sebastian Barthold leading the way with seven.
Norway keeper Kristian Skinstad Saeveraas enjoyed an impressive performance with 10 saves from 18 shots, for a 55.56% efficiency.
16:14
It was an impressive performance by the Czech Republic, as they return from Israel with a 19:29 victory.
15:48
Right, settle yourselves in and great for a mega hour of handball, with four matches throwing off at 16.00 (CEST).
In EURO 2024 Qualifiers we have three humdingers
Meanwhile, in EURO Cup 2024
We knew that in Latvian handball changes are happening. They have changed coach and their style. Latvia does not have big stars in the team, but the team were competitive and tough, especially in the first half. In the second half, we played better in both offence and defence. We have had two games and we came out with two victories. Everything is done perfectly and we are looking forward to games against France. We know they are favourites in our group, but we are trying to do our best.
We chose the hard way today. In the beginning, we played very well and had a lead of four goals until the Belgians traded their goalkeeper for an extra player. That caused us a lot of problems. They scored easily and their goalkeeper played a good game. Until the end of the match, we had to fight for it. We managed to win this match without character.
