This Sunday, Portugal will face European champions Sweden at Handball Euro 2024 in Hamburg, Germany, in a match where reaching the semi-finals and overcoming their best ever ranking of sixth place is on the line.
The Portuguese team, which lost only to three-time world champion Denmark (37-27), won two games in the “main round” – against Norway (37-32) and Slovenia (33-30), and on the other hand, reached the third round of Group II is on the same level as Sweden.
If they win (a result that is also key to determining the pre-Olympic tournament ahead of Paris 2024), Portugal will have six points with one round left to play, surpassed only by Denmark ahead of Sweden, Norway and Slovenia. . .
Tonight’s game, which will take place at 18:00 (17:00 in Lisbon), which if defeated would also see Portugal exit the semi-finals, has the added attraction of a predictable new record for goals scored by a Portuguese player in the final stages, given that Martim Costa equaled the 38 goals scored by Carlos Rezende in 2000 for Croatia against Slovenia.