The 27th World Handball Championship 2021!

[LTU_btc]

There was some interesting games today between Brazil - Tunisia and Poland - Spain, but it's sad to see games in World Championship ending with 20+ goal difference.
Cape Verde - Germany game was cancelled and Germany was awarded with a win. Cape Verde simply didn't had enough players because of Covid.

.....Gauthier Mvumbi, 192cm, 110kg, looks a bit more kg's, if you ask me. He could play in NFL with that frame Or Darts

Damn, he definitely doesn't looks like 110kg guy, it should be 130-140kg at least . It should be very difficult to defend him, when you need at least 2 players to stop him.
He reminds me one former player of our national team. According to different sources, his weight is between 160 and 180kg:
https://youtu.be/pu6ykR4gvjs

[Lucius]

Source: https://img.olympicchannel.com/images/image/private/t_16-9_760/f_auto/v1538355600/primary/r9cwdayimyka9zazmuvu
.....Gauthier Mvumbi, 192cm, 110kg, looks a bit more kg's, if you ask me. He could play in NFL with that frame Or Darts

What a player, he really looks scary, and it seems that everyone gets out of his way when he is ready to send the ball towards the goal

I agree in general, but we are just so bad. Our handball is pre - historic, I really feel this team will struggle with everybody during the tournament.

Unless it is some kind of tactic of keeping strength or deceiving the opponent in the further course of the competition. At first glance, it really seems that they lack motivation, but also that they are not sufficiently prepared.


Unfortunately, the national team of Cape Verde no longer participates in the competition, all their matches will be registered in favor of the opponent 10-0.

[Trofo]

Final day of first groups, time to wrap it up. Some bets I am looking for today:
Japan to win, probably with handicap - I am still looking for some info on Angola squad, I believe they lost at least one very important player against Croatia and looking for some confirmations before betting. Japan looked good and should win this without much problems.

Croatia - Qatar over 49.5 - This could be a tight game but somebody will also have to chase a result and I believe 50 goals is not too high number. Qatar is getting back Youssef Ben Ali, very good pivot and among top scorers in their squad which should help push this bet in the green. I am also looking for Halil Jaganjac over goals but I have not yet found a bookie offering this. Margin should be very low since he did not play much yet and I believe he will score a couple of goals today.

[cryptofrka]

Final day of first groups, time to wrap it up. Some bets I am looking for today:
Japan to win, probably with handicap - I am still looking for some info on Angola squad, I believe they lost at least one very important player against Croatia and looking for some confirmations before betting. Japan looked good and should win this without much problems.

Croatia - Qatar over 49.5 - This could be a tight game but somebody will also have to chase a result and I believe 50 goals is not too high number. Qatar is getting back Youssef Ben Ali, very good pivot and among top scorers in their squad which should help push this bet in the green. I am also looking for Halil Jaganjac over goals but I have not yet found a bookie offering this. Margin should be very low since he did not play much yet and I believe he will score a couple of goals today.

Agreed on this, I said many times that we are bad but this margin is really low for handball nowadays. It is a really important game, so if one team gets a few goals difference, the other will want to chase for sure.

I think I will play on Japan as well, from what I've seen, they are a much better team. They might struggle physically though, so maybe over goals seems like a good bet as well.

[tyKiwanuka]

I went with Poland @2.75 today, because I feel this should be more of a 50/50 affair judging by the results so far. Both had Spain on the brink of defeat; Brazil managed to come away with a draw, while Poland lost 26-27. Brazil then struggled a bit against Tunisia as 1.40-fav. The glory days of polish handball are a bit behind them, but they are building up a new team and are still able to field a strong squad.
In the unlikely event of Tunisia beating Spain earlier in the day, it would be best for Poland to draw, because that would eliminate Spain (and thus make Poland carry more points into next round), but I doubt they calculate that far and playing for a draw in Handball isn't that easy

[Trofo]

I went with Poland @2.75 today, because I feel this should be more of a 50/50 affair judging by the results so far. Both had Spain on the brink of defeat; Brazil managed to come away with a draw, while Poland lost 26-27. Brazil then struggled a bit against Tunisia as 1.40-fav. The glory days of polish handball are a bit behind them, but they are building up a new team and are still able to field a strong squad.

This is also a good bet but I have opted for more safe Poland +1.5 @1.85. All games in this group are very tight and I have a feeling this will be another one which gets decided in the last attack. I watched Poland against Spain and they were quite good, did not watch Brazil yet though and that is the reason why I am a bit more cautious.

I am also considering throwing something on a draw but the odds of @8.6 are too low for me, will probably wait until one team gets 2 goals advantage and then play it live if odds get to something like 11 or 12. This game screams draw as much as it is possible to count on draw in handball.

[snipie]

Final day of first groups, time to wrap it up. Some bets I am looking for today:
Japan to win, probably with handicap - I am still looking for some info on Angola squad, I believe they lost at least one very important player against Croatia and looking for some confirmations before betting. Japan looked good and should win this without much problems.

Croatia - Qatar over 49.5 - This could be a tight game but somebody will also have to chase a result and I believe 50 goals is not too high number. Qatar is getting back Youssef Ben Ali, very good pivot and among top scorers in their squad which should help push this bet in the green. I am also looking for Halil Jaganjac over goals but I have not yet found a bookie offering this. Margin should be very low since he did not play much yet and I believe he will score a couple of goals today.

I expect Japan to win, I watched a part of their game vs Croatia and they did quite well comparing to what we used to know about them.
I find group B interesting and followed it. Today Spain will face Tunisia which will be a tight one especially that Tunisian are looking for at least a single win, yet I expect Spain to win. Poland vs Brazil is also hard imo. The final results of their games are very close too. I expect a draw. Wouldn't bet in this group since the final result could flip in few seconds.
For Qatar - Croatia, I doubt they will score less than 50 goals.

[Trofo]

I have 2 games or today which I feel should be easy money but I don't advise you to follow. I have made way too big bet on that double so I am expecting it to go wrong as usually those things have a tendency to do so

Switzerland +4.5 @1.41, I have watched the Swiss side and they impressed me a lot against France. Island is much weaker team than France and I can see Swiss team even getting a draw or win here.

Russia +4.5 @1.46, Russia is also playing good handball and if Egypt were not the home team I would expect much closer odds. As it is Egypt will probably get the win in the last minute or something like that but that is enough for my bet to pas.

[snipie]

I have 2 games or today which I feel should be easy money but I don't advise you to follow. I have made way too big bet on that double so I am expecting it to go wrong as usually those things have a tendency to do so

Switzerland +4.5 @1.41, I have watched the Swiss side and they impressed me a lot against France. Island is much weaker team than France and I can see Swiss team even getting a draw or win here.

Russia +4.5 @1.46, Russia is also playing good handball and if Egypt were not the home team I would expect much closer odds. As it is Egypt will probably get the win in the last minute or something like that but that is enough for my bet to pas.

Didn't followed Swiss nor Iceland games so I have no idea but Egypt is a good team and regarding its game vs Sweden where it did well, I think it has a chance to win vs Russia.
Nice to find your prediction worked with Japan and Qatar - Croatia 
Dunno if you followed group B games, Poland was impressive, the first half was intense vs Brazil with no goals scored in the first ~3 minutes. At the opposite Spain - Tunisia game was disappointing where they failed to tie even with 2 Spanish players out for 2 minutes at the same time..
There is Sweden (x1.4) - Belarus also with Sweden/Sweden @1.78 /looks good imo?

[tyKiwanuka]

Russia +4.5 @1.46

Tough one , although they were never "in the range" from the latter stages of 1st half on.


I am going with Spain TT over 29.5 today. This will be the first real test for the germans and their decimated and newly put together defense. Hungary scored 29 against them and one would expect Spain to be able to score the same and a bit more. It always depends a bit on the pace of the game, but Germany will most likely trail most of the time, so slowing down the game might not always be possible. In their last 3 H2H games, Spain scored 31/30/33, so this bet won't be a walk in the park, but I don't trust the german defense with missing the Kiel block.

Thought about adding Denmark ML to juice up the odds a bit, but something tells me that would be a bad idea

[Trofo]

^That loss yesterday hit me hard so I am much more careful with my Handball bets today.

Don't know about the Spain over, seems to me the games got much tighter and unders started popping all over the place. Good luck with the bet. I have some money riding on over 50.5 goals in Denmark game. I am expecting Danish to play seriously like they usually do and score a lot of goals even if they are leading.

Hungary is actually the team that impressed me most in this competition. They are playing great and I am planing on playing on them against all the big opponents. At least handicaps if not outright wins.

I just watched last 5 minutes of Angola game, never seen a team lose in such stupid fashion. First they manage to miss the penalty 2 minutes from the end. Then they are having last attack and score is even, about 50 seconds till the end. What they do - they give the ball from bad pass to the opponent with 30 seconds to spare and immediately concede the goal from counter attack. Now they are loosing but still have time for quick equalizer and of course pivot mises one-on-one with the keeper. Laughed my ass off.

Edit:
Don't know if you knew guys but there is free live streaming of all games available on official IHF youtube channel, give it a try if you miss a coverage for some game. If you don't see the live streams use VPN since it is working only in areas without paid TV coverage. The basic VPN which comes with Opera is more than enough

[Trofo]

I am going with Spain TT over 29.5 today.

Good choice, passed easier than I expected. There was a few fast plays from Spain after conceding goals which was something I thought Germany would not allow and helped your choice to pass comfortably.

Lots of interesting games today, not sure yet which one to take, too much choice. Following odds are from my fiat bookie since they are much better than what I managed to find in BTC accepting ones:

Egypt to win @1.45, Egypt showed a lot of good handball in the competion and I expect them to win against Belarus without big problems. Some small handicap on them is also a good bet

Slovenia to win @1.75, Sweden has not impressed me and that is expected since they have a lot of important players missing. Odds have big value and I am taking either straight win or 1x @1.50

Switzerland +4.5 @1.65, They covered every handicap I took on them so far and I simply must continue backing them. Did not see Portugal play yet so I am bit afraid how good are they actually.

France to win @1.3, France is much better than Island and this should be a slam dunk, considering a handicap on France as well

[tyKiwanuka]

Switzerland +4.5 @1.65, They covered every handicap I took on them so far and I simply must continue backing them. Did not see Portugal play yet so I am bit afraid how good are they actually.

I will join you on the Switzerland train, with HC+3.5 and a little bit of ML @4.50. I don't know what makes the swiss team so good, but they are doing fantastic so far considering they come out of holidays basically. They give me some Football EC 1992 Denmark vibes

Cross-comparisons are always a bit meh, but here we go:

Switzerland - Iceland 20-18
Portugal - Iceland 25-23

Switzerland - Norway 25-31
Portugal - Norway 28-29

So the ML and HC look about right on paper, but this will be a low scoring game, so +3.5 has some more value than in an expected high scoring one.

Good choice, passed easier than I expected. There was a few fast plays from Spain after conceding goals which was something I thought Germany would not allow and helped your choice to pass comfortably.

Germany played very good and yes, it was probably a bit lucky to win that one comfortably-looking in the end, but I have had it the other way round gazillion of times as well, thats just betting Germany is practically out of the tournament now, but they will still give 100% as they always do. I was hoping for some good odds against Brazil, but it's just 1.18, with the HC sitting at 5.5

[Trofo]

Switzerland +4.5 @1.65, They covered every handicap I took on them so far and I simply must continue backing them. Did not see Portugal play yet so I am bit afraid how good are they actually.

I will join you on the Switzerland train, with HC+3.5 and a little bit of ML @4.50. I don't know what makes the swiss team so good, but they are doing fantastic so far considering they come out of holidays basically. They give me some Football EC 1992 Denmark vibes

This was a tough one to swallow, better for you if you did not watch last few minutes of the game. This was a very strange match, as you said I expected much tighter game but Portuguese scored goals whenever they liked it. Swiss attack did well to keep it competitive until the end but their defense took a day off today.

[virasog]

First serious day of Championship today and nobody posting any picks, makes me sad  
I wanted to copy some good ideas and now you made me make my own so here it goes:

Probably because not many people follow the handball here on bitcointalk. I have seen this first thread dedicated to handball in this section.
Can you tell me where are you betting on these matches ?

Didn't notice the topic personally until now although it was created a week ago. I will not bet on it, I will just follow few games whenever I have free time. New young players in different teams made me a little sceptic.

I would try betting on few of these matches provided anyone would tell me where can i place bets on these matches 
Although i don't have enough knowledge about the teams but sometimes wild guesses can also make you win. Although i have started liking the game.

[boltz]

Egypt and France looks really solid and I think one of this team will be in the finals as personally I can't see this not happening. Denmark and Hungary plays good aswell but Hungary doesn't have players for the finals and Denmark will have a hard time to keep the pace with the France if they will face each other. The surprise of all this could be Norway who is scoring a lot!

[Trofo]

I would try betting on few of these matches provided anyone would tell me where can i place bets on these matches 
Although i don't have enough knowledge about the teams but sometimes wild guesses can also make you win. Although i have started liking the game.

I think you can bet on these matches in every sports bookie out there. I can recommend Sportsbet and Stake as two choices which are solid and I trust them with my money. Both have topics here on the forum. They have all the markets expect for player over/under but if you are new to sport it is better that you skip that one. I am not even shearing those tips since they are a total gamble and I usually end up loosing them.

Great day for me yesterday, everything passed (took Slovenia 1x and they scored in last seconds of the match for the draw) even though 3/4 my choices were much closer than I expected. Only Egypt played to the fullest of my expectations

[cryptofrka]

I also had a great day yesterday, playing only Norway team total over 33,5 for 1,85 odds and then live again over 35,5 goals for 2,20 odds. They scored 36, last one in the last minute

4,5 handicap on Argentina against Croatia looks good today, I think I'll try that one. Croatia really does not impress me, although we'll reach the quarterfinals if we win tonight.

Even a medal for us would not surprise me, we always find enough muscle to somehow fight for them. But our handball is bad and I'm fairly confident in placing those handicap bets on the opponents.

[Trofo]

4,5 handicap on Argentina against Croatia looks good today, I think I'll try that one. Croatia really does not impress me, although we'll reach the semis if we win tonight.

Even a medal for us would not surprise me, we always find enough muscle to somehow fight for them. But our handball is bad and I'm fairly confident in placing those handicap bets on the opponents.

Agree on handicap against Croatia, I have +5.5 on Argetnina for high stake which should be free money in low scoring game and I really expect a game dominated by defenses. There is also some news about some stomach flu or whatever among our players with Duvnjak hit bad. If he gets rested a bit more than this handi simply must pass

My other bet is on Quatar to win but odds dropped a lot. I played it @1.3 yesterday, today it is just 1.19 which is just to low to play.

[tyKiwanuka]

This was a tough one to swallow, better for you if you did not watch last few minutes of the game.

Yep, looked quite good, but Switzerland probably has some betting people in their squad and they all had Portugal -3.5


I am going with my polish friends again today with two bets, although Hungary got some praise in here lately^^ Normally Hungary should and will win this, but nearly @5 for Poland is too high. The HC is only +2.5/-2.5 and I don't see a lot of value there, but ML is worth a try with smallish stakes.
This is a must win for Poland and they could find themselves in a very comfortable position before their last match against Germany, because Spain and Hungary will meet in last round and that one is played before the Poland - Germany match.
Some bucks on the over 25.5 TT as well. This will be a hard fought one and Poland scored only 30 against Uruguay (GER/HUN scored 40+ against them), but they took it easy I guess against an overwhelmed opponent.