Austria suffered first defeat after Magnus Andersson came for the coach of the national team. In Belgrade, Serbia was clear better – 39:27 (23:11), expecially in the first 30 minutes, when Veselin Vuković played with Ilic and Vujin in attack. After 18 minutes, “Eagles” had a lead 17:5, what is enough explanation about a small catastrophe of Austrians. “Revenge for Linz”, where Austria was eliminated Serbia at the EHF EURO 2010, was some of the titles in Serbian newspapers…
Belgrade – 2000 spectators
Serbia: Marjanac four saves, Pribak 2/3, Šešum 7/10, Vujin 9(2)/13, Nikčević 0/1, Ćurković 1/1, Toskić 5/5, Stanić 11 saves (46%), Ilić 3/3, Marković 4/5, Pejanović eight saves, Prodanović 3/4, Stojković 3/3, Rnić 0/2, Vilovski, Vučković 0/2, Mitrović, Stanković 2/4.
Austria: Bauer 3 saves, Fulzer 1/4, Kainmiler 0/1, Božović 3/7, Vos 2/3, Abadir 0/1, Majer 2/4, Marinović six saves, Silađi 4/11, Poš 2/2, Vlčinski 2/2, Johum 0/3, Fride 2/5, Šlinger 6/9, Vagesrajter, Veber 3/6.
Scores in time: 4:0 (4.) 8:2 (10.) 15:4 (18.) 18:6 (24.) 21:8 (27.) 31:17 (42.) 35:22 (50.)
After this match, it was interesting to heard Swedish legend, Magnus Andersson, coach of Austrian NT:
– I am dissapointed.We played against seriuos opponent. I am a little bit in shock. This is the first defeat fo Austria with me. We had a really bad start. Many things in our play wasn’t ok. I don’t know what to tell more. When after 1t minutes you had minus 12, then that explains everything…
