Emerging nations looking to use home advantage as qualifiers continue on Sunday
The final day of Women's EHF EURO 2024 qualifiers for this calendar year is on the agenda as well as the Highlight Match between the two of the co-hosts of next year's tournament, Austria and Hungary, who meet in the EHF EURO CUP.
The favourites lived up to their roles in the opening round over the past few days, but now, they will be put to difficult tests by inspired hosts who will aim to break their ducks and improve on their first performances as they play in front of their home fans.
We have to move on after the match against France, and our attention must be directed only to Slovenia. They are a great team and when we faced them we played at least some very positive partials. I expect that our head and our morale can work and that we can play a good match
This will be a chance for some of the players that they can handle real matches and be an important part of the team ahead of the World Championship. We have studied our opponents and have been preparing for this match since the start of the international break. Italy will show their real face against us and I'm looking forward to the game.
The match against Türkiye showed that we can play with such teams. The first half was a little slower, until we got into the rhythm, and already the second half showed our class and our maturity. I hope we will continue like that against Bulgaria.
We are looking forward to the match for several reasons. First of all because it is a qualification match at home and secondly because it is against Iceland as it is always special matches against them.
Even though we lost the match in Sweden we are coming home with confidence as we think we played really well for parts of the game, and we will bring this into the match against Iceland.
