EHF Under20 Championship - European Hattrick Federation

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30.11.2020 Semi-finals Review

The four best teams in this season's EHF Under 20 Championship played this Friday and two of them will have to fight for the title now. Let's look back to those semi-finals.

The last match for the Netherlands in front of their own fans was against Russia. The Russians had the better start of the match and were looking confident on the ball. Netherlands were sitting back, waiting for their opponents to make a mistake and to hit them on the counter. Exactly that happened in the 28th minute when Elko Yzer finished a counterattack from the left wing. The Dutch defence was looking very solid and in the 32nd minute the speedster Jeffrey van Rijswijk finished another brilliant executed counterattack for his team, making it 2-0. Two minutes later Kirill Varenik received a second yellow and left Russia with 10 men. In the second half both managers made some substitutions. In the 57th minute Russia had a great chance to pull one back but Leonid Polyanskikh missed the target from the penalty spot. In the 64th minute another counterattack from the left was scored from the Dutch team and this time Isaac van der Graft was the goal scorer. Until the end of the match Netherlands missed a couple of counterattacks and Russia wasn't able to break down the Dutch defence.

In the other match all eyes were on Mario Goldberger who was in the starting lineup for Austria. They took the lead early on after Paul Müller scored in the 8th minute. In the 27th minute Goldberger had a chance to make it 2-0 but hit the bar instead after he chipped the keeper. That missed chance resulted in a counterattack for Slovakia and Eduard Trnavský equalized. The score was level on half time. In the second half both teams missed a couple of chances before Klaus Seidl's goal in the 81st minute gave Austria the lead. Again Goldberger was unlucky not to score in the 84th minute missing his third big chance in the game. Odo Raich however was on target in the dying moments of the match as he made the final score, a comfortable 3-1 win for Austria.

STANDINGS

	Group A	Pts		Group E	Pts
1.	Netherlands	9	1.	England	5
2.	Poland	6	2.	Slovakia	4
3.	Albania	3	3.	Russia	4
4.	Croatia	0	4.	Belarus	3
	Group B	Pts		Group F	Pts
1.	Iraq	3	1.	Wales	9
2.	Georgia	3	2.	North Macedonia	6
3.		3	3.	Trinidad & Tobago	3
4.		3	4.	Latvia	0
	Group C	Pts		Group G	Pts
1.	Bulgaria	7	1.	Russia	3
2.	France	7	2.	Albania	3
3.	Georgia	3	3.		3
4.	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	4.		3
	Group D	Pts		Group H	Pts
1.	Liechtenstein	9	1.	Austria	9
2.	Israel	6	2.	Norway	6
3.	Denmark	3	3.	Iraq	3
4.	Luxembourg	0	4.	Serbia	0

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Season 8: Abd El Hafeez El Sokkary
Season 7: Muammer Gülsuyu
Season 6: Gürdal Yücalan
Season 5: Rico Hasler
Season 4: Artemiy Golovizin
Season 3: José Vicente Cogolls
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Group stage

Matchday 1 - 9 October
Matchday 2 - 16 October
Matchday 3 - 23 October

Knockout phase

Round of 16 - 30 October
Quarter-finals - 6 November
Semi-finals - 27 November

Final

Final - 4 December

WINNERS

Season 8: Israel
Season 7: Turkey
Season 6: Turkey
Season 5: Liechtenstein
Season 4: Ukraine
Season 3: France
Season 2: Germany
Season 1: Czech Republic

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