After an easy victory against Romania, Belgium experienced  more resistance against Portugal. Goals were not so easy now and even on the defensive side, the Belgians had to work hard to prevent the Portuguese team from scoring.
Our Belgian reporter states that the team was not in a quiet mood. They played carelessly and missed a lot of ‘open’ chances.
Halftime ended at 02-06.
After restart, the Portuguese came back to 04-06.
This however gave a positive signal to the Belgian team to speed up things and to work on their concentration for the game.
They succeeded by winning this match at 06-10.

South Africa showed a good game, playing against Romania.
At this level, korfball seems to be a nice pastime.
Both countries showed not much difference between them in the beginning,
but a little bit more of experience on the side of South Africa gave them a small overhand,
gaining them their first match points  at the end result of 13-03.
In spite of the knowhow of England, Catalonia overpowered them and showed us that playing korfball is not only a ‘Dutch cup of tea’ anymore!!