Sunday afternoon, the Swiss team played its third and final match in the preliminary round of the 2025 world championships. In the Herning arena (Denmark), the protégés of coach Andy Schmid were not expected to lose against Poland in order to finish among the top three in Group A and thus qualify for the main round, the minimum objective that had been set before the start of the competition.
Mission accomplished, all in management, since the Swiss won 30-28. After the match made by the Nati last Saturday against Germany – defeated with honors 32-29 -, it was the favorite against the Poles who had lost 35-28 against these same Germans.
Switzerland didn’t really doubt during the first part of the match. She was always in the lead and was already winning 18-15 at the break, then 21-15 in the 34th minute of play. So, Lenny Rubin and his teammates released the pressure to bring themselves up to 22-22. .
-In the process, Nikola Portner, one of the stars of our national team, made several decisive saves for which he has the secret. The score thus returned to plus four in favor of Switzerland (30-26) when starting the final sprint. Enough to breathe a little.
In the other meeting of the afternoon in this group A, Germany beat the Czech Republic 29-22, which means that the Swiss finish in second place in this group with three points, which will allow them to play three more matches during these 2005 World Cups: Tuesday against Tunisia, Thursday against Denmark (the reigning world champions who will play at home) and Saturday against Italy.
