LIVE Romania – Denmark, duel for the dream of the quarter-finals at the Women's Handball World Championship

• Reporter Adrian Jitea and photojournalist Ionuț Iordache are in Rotterdam with the Romanian national team and transmit all the information and images that matter.

Romania – Denmark, live from Rotterdam Ahoy from 21:30

Romania fulfilled its intermediate objective at the World Championship. They won their opening games against Japan and Croatia and qualified for the main groups. It will advance for sure and with a dowry of two points.

For more, a perfect match is needed. The victory of the tricolor handball players against Denmark would be the biggest surprise of the tournament, if we look at the bookmakers' analysis. A triumph for Romania is rated at 13.00, for the Danes under 1.10.

VIDEO. Ovidiu Mihăilă and Romania's handball players believe in surprise: “Why not win?”

The balance of forces seems adversarial, but the selector Ovidiu Mihăilă and his students are not afraid. They are thinking of a victory that would bring Romania closer to a miraculous quarter-final.

The calculations for a presence in the top 8 are simple. Fulfilling the scenario is more difficult to achieve. In short, Romania must win at least one match from the position of outsider. To beat Denmark or Hungary, the national team that will win group B.

Apart from the Hungarian national team, the “tricolors” will have two more matches, with Switzerland and more than likely Senegal.

From the resulting group of 6 teams, the first two placed will qualify for the quarter-finals.

Why not?, we might even win this match. It would take us higher than we first thought. I just want to look at the Denmark game. We have to capitalize on everything we can. Why not win? Why not leave with 4 points? Even if it will be very difficult, they are a force in world handball, but we have to play with courage. I think we can rise to the level of Denmark

– Ovidiu Mihăila

Romania is also looking for revenge against Denmark

The recent record is against Romania. The Danes won the previous 6 direct disputes. They faced each other in the group at the previous World Championship, triumph 39-23.

Record of the Danish national team:

• 3 Olympic gold medals (1996, 2000, 2004), bronze at the last edition;
• a world title (1997), 6 other medals, bronze at the last edition;
• 3 European titles (1994, 1996, 2002), another 4 silver medals, 2nd place also at the last edition.

Ranking of group A from the Women's Handball World Championship:

The schedule and results in the Romania group: