LEN Water Polo European Championship: Italians deprieved Montenegrins bronze

Italian water polo team won a bronze medal at the European Championship in Hungary, as in Budapest defeated Montenegro with 11:9 (1:3, 5:3, 2:2, 3:1) in the match for third place.

Montenegro couldn’t recover from a dramatic semi-final defeat to Serbia two days ago, when they had a four-goal lead twice and then lost eventually.

“Sharks” started a good match, they had a lead of 3-1. Montenegro is then led and 5-3, but Italy turned the series 3-0.

Montenegrins were able to tie at the end of the first half, but Italy then acquired two-goal lead, 8-6. Mladjan Janovic brought the tie 9:9 in the fourth quarter  but Italy then scored a goal with a player more, and then used  penalty for the final 11:9.

LEN Water Polo European Championship: Greeks on Serbia’s path to the semifinals and a derby with the Montenegrins

The best Serbian water polo players against Greece are fighting for a place in the semi-finals of the European Championships in Hungary at 8:30 pm CET.  Serbia and Greece played 15 times so far, where Serbian national team has recorded 12 wins, a draw and two defeats.

The eve of the quarter-final clash Filip Filipovic top scorer of Serbian selection with 13 goals, said that in their camp are aware of the importance of the match with the Greeks.

– This is like a final. Greeks are really shown a lot in the tournament. We know what we do, and what will surprise our fans. We climb up from match to match, gearing up and I wouldn’t like to be in the skin of a team that is a rival to Serbia – said Filipovic.

Coach of the Serbian water polo team Dejan Savic said that Greece has high quality and is a selection against who should be played like as against Spain.

– Guys play well and I announced them as a possible surprise of the championship.  They are well disciplined and need to access to a match like with Spain if they are going to win. We were not allowed to blunder and fail. If we had lost, they would have to use some to underestimate the force of water polo, as well as the value of Serbian sport.  Although the fact that we have 15 years on the edge and sustain us result of representation only – Savic said.

Today on the program are matches Russia – Germany (16:00), Georgia – France (17:30) and Italy – Croatia (19:00).  Hungarians and Montenegrins as group winners qualified directly to the semifinals. Winner of the duel Serbia and Greece will play with Montenegro on Friday, while Hungary will wait for the winner of the match Italy – Croatia.

LEN Water Polo European championship: Serbs powerful at a start

Serbian water polo team has the start of the European Championship in Hungary. In Budapest chosen ones of Dejan Savic celebrated a convincing victory over France 16:5, the fourth (4:1, 3:1, 3:0, 6:3). The next rival of “dolphins” will be Germany.

The winner is not compromised at any moment. Already half the difference in the quality of favorites and outsiders was evident and grew as the match progressed, along with lead  of Dejan Savic.  

The French only managed to finish mitigate lost when it eased concentration in Serbian players in defense phase. All things considered, a very good and encouraging start to Serbia at the European Championship, where defending the title won 2012.  in Eindhoven.

The top scorer on the team was a Serbian Slobodan Nikic with four goals and two goals scored by Dusan Mandic, Dusko Pijetlovic, Filip Filipovic and Andrija Prlainovic, while at the list of shooters entered and Zivko Gocic, Milos Cuk, Milan Aleksic and Stefan Mitrovic .

In addition to Serbia and France in group B, there are also Hungary, Croatia and Spain. In the first match of the group, Croatia beat Germany 10-5.