Iceland survive scare to finish EHF EURO 2024 on a high
A battle between two goalkeepers, Constantin Möstl and Viktor Hallgrímsson, eventually helped Iceland finish the Men's EHF EURO 2024 on a high, taking a 26:24 win over Austria, as Ales Pajovic’s side lost their second match in a row.
Austria are now out of contention both for the semi-finals and the 5/6 placement match - whatever the outcome of the remaining two games in the group.
We played a very good first half, our defence was really good and they could not score a lot of goals. The start of the second half was a little disaster, we played terrible for 10 minutes and they took the momentum. Of course we battled back, we won the game but that's not what we wanted, really.
It was really a tough one, you could feel that our heads wanted to win, but the legs could not quite follow. We are very, very tired, so the start of the game, the whole first half actually, was very bad. But then maybe Iceland slowed down a little, but we also told ourselves that we did not want to go out on such a terrible performance. But that was not enough, sadly.
