Summary: Denmark through, Spain beat France, Portugal & Norway draw
The Men's EHF EURO 2026 main round is halfway through. By tonight, we might have a bit more clarity on the group I teams that could be playing the semi-finals, but then again, we might not. Germany are in pole position, but on Monday face co-hosts and world and Olympic champions Denmark.
It’s hugely disappointing, we do not have our fate in our hands anymore. But there is no use crying over spilled milk. We will watch the next game, crossing our fingers for a Danish victory, and there you go. But we lost, we deserved the defeat and we deserved to be in this situation.
They are a really fast team with a lot of good players, so for us it will be key to keep the defence compact and hopefully make them shoot from distance.
15:00
The race for the semi-finals is hotting up, and both Portugal and Norway know they absolutely need a win to stay in it. Both are on two points - Portugal after winning group B with that victory over Denmark in the preliminary round, Norway after their main round 1 win against Spain. Both sides' chances also depend very much on other results, particularly for Spain to upset France in the second match today.
They are mid warm-up right now here at the Jyske Bank Boxen, with Norway just completing shuttle runs and Portugal doing passing practice.
14:40
A reminder that every day we update the referee nominations for the matches ahead. Today, Slovenians Bojan Lah and David Sok will whistle Portugal vs Norway, Mirza Kurtagić and Mattias Wetterwik of Sweden take charge of Spain vs France, and Montenegrin pair Ivan Pavičević and Miloš Ražnatović are refereeing Germany vs Denmark.
14:15
Arguably the most important game of the day in Herning is the last match, between Germany and Denmark. Here's Julian's Rux's stat of the day, demonstrating how important Simon Pytlick and Mathias Gidsel are to the Danish attack. We've seen teams try to shut them down in several previous games - can Germany succeed?
13:45
Spain might be out of the semi-finals race, but they're still here to play, fight for points - and have fun. Ian Tarrafeta and Daniel Fernández enjoyed picking their top 10 players of all time ...
13:10
Halfway through the main round, we've dug into some of the data from the tournament so far to find the player who's scored the fastest shot - click below to find out who he is! The data also shows that compared to 2024, shots are getting faster, and back-court players dominate.
