Qatar reach Arab Handball Cup final, Bahrain beat Kuwait
KUWAIT: Qatar's handball team defeated Egypt 25-19 on Friday in the semis of the 10th Arab Handball Cup, hosted by Kuwait, at the Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah complex.
Thus, the Qatari team was the first to reach the final of the tournament and was able to overcome the Egyptian team, which participated with its young players in the first half of the match, so that the Qataris came out ahead 13-8, and in the second half, the difference in experience appeared clearly and the Qatari team was able to expand the difference until it won the match in which the Qatari Anadin Soljkovic was awarded the best player award.
Meanwhile, Tunisia beat Morocco 35-32, and Saudi Arabia beat Iraq 25-20 earlier in the fifth to ninth places determination of the tournament, which runs until May 11. In the second semi-final match Bahrain handball team reached the final of the 10th Arab Cup on Friday after beating Kuwait with a score of 29-24. The Bahraini team will face its Qatari counterpart on Sunday in the final.
In the first half, in the presence of a large Kuwaiti crowd, the two teams entered with the desire to win, and despite the great enthusiasm, the Bahraini team appeared in a strong and solid form and quickly expanded the difference in the first half, which ended in its favor (9-17) thanks to the saves of its goalkeeper Hisham Ahmed, who shone remarkably and was the differentiating factor for the Bahraini team in the first half hour.
With the start of the second half, Kuwait's players tried to reduce the difference, and with the support of the large crowd, they came close to that, but the Bahraini team was able to withstand and settle the confrontation in its favor to reach the final, while Kuwait will face its Egyptian counterpart to determine the third and fourth place. Bahrain's Mohammed Habib won the man of the match award. Earlier on Friday, Tunisia beat Morocco 35-32, while Saudi Arabia defeated Iraq (25-20) in the fifth to ninth places of the tournament.
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