LIVE Romania – Senegal, in the main group of the Women's Handball World Championship » Why victory is essential
Article by Ionuţ Iordache, Adrian Jitea – Published Friday, 05 December 2025, 09:14 / Updated Friday, 05 December 2025 09:15
Romania – Senegal, in the main groups of Women's Handball World Championshipwill be contested today, from 16:30. The match will be liveTEXT on GSP.ro, with information and images from Rotterdam Ahoy, and televised on Prima Sport 1 and Digi Sport 1.
- Reporter Adrian Jitea and photojournalist Ionuț Iordache are in Rotterdam with the Romanian national team and transmit all the information and images that matter
- Also today, in the same group: Japan – Hungary (7:00 p.m.) and Switzerland – Denmark (9:30 p.m.).
Romania – Senegal, live from 16:30
Romania lost the matches against Denmark and Hungary, will not reach the quarter-finals, but can still fulfill the goal assumed at the start of the World Championship: ranking among the top 10 nations. It hasn't happened since 2017.
The calculations are difficult to do, the final ranking from the other 3 main groups will count. One thing is certain. The national team trained by Ovidiu Mihăilă must win both remaining matches, today against Senegal and Monday against Switzerland.
Senegal, the silver medalist at the last African Championship, met the Romanian national team only once before, in 2019, also at a final world tournament. The tricolor athletes prevailed 29 to 24with Neagu on grace day, 13 goals.
From the Romanian batch from that moment we find several girls even today. Iulia Dumanska, Elena Roșu, Lorena Ostase, Andreea Popa and Sonia Seraficeanu. The last 3 also scored.
3 participationshas Senegal at the Women's Handball World Championship: 2019 (18th place), 2023 (18th place) and 2025
Senegal is not to be scared even today. It reached the current phase thanks to the victory against Iran, one of the weakest national teams present in the competition, score 30-21. He conceded the disputes with Hungary (17-26), Switzerland (24-25) and Denmark (26-30).
It's very important what's next, to show character, to finish this World Cup with our foreheads high, even if we had these failures, with Denmark and Hungary, national teams subscribed to medals. We have to keep our motivation, objectively I answer, regardless of the context and conjuncture.
My prayer is that we show this spirit until the end, you never know what can happen, we need maturity and focus like at the beginning, to go in and win. It's about the image of Romania and some aspects of some shots in the future
– Ovidiu Mihăilă, the Romanian national team coach
Ranking of the main group of which Romania is a part:
|
Nation |
puncture |
goal difference |
|
1. Denmark |
6 |
115-76 |
|
2. Hungary |
6 |
92-71 |
|
3. Romania |
2 |
91-100 |
|
4. Switzerland |
2 |
71-83 |
|
5. Japan |
2 |
73-88 |
|
6. Senegal |
0 |
41-51 |
The first two places will go to the quarter-finals
Romania's schedule and results in the main group:
Romania's results in the preliminary group:
