Our national team qualified for the "8" of Europe, 12-10 Italy

Our National Young Men's Water Polo team (U19) "paired" their victories in Group B of the European Championship, which is being held in Burgas, Bulgaria, after defeating Italy 12-10, on Tuesday (3 /9) and secured her direct qualification to the "8" of the event.

The next game for Ilias Machira's squad is scheduled for Thursday (5/9), with an opponent to be determined from Wednesday's cross game (4/9).

Our representative group was behind in the score with 0-2 in the first eight minutes and 2-4 after three minutes in the second, but with goals from Spahits, Lykoudis and Laskaridis managed to lead 5-4. After the Italians' 5-5, another Greek streak followed. With two goals by Georgaras and one by Angelopoulos, Bitsakou, our national team took a 9-5 lead, three minutes before the end of the third period. The Italian team managed to "nibble" the difference (9-8 and 10-9), but in the last three minutes Lykoudis and Angelopoulos gave the solution (12-9).

Detailed variation HERE

GREECE – ITALY 12-10

Eight minutes: 0-2, 6-3, 3-2, 3-3

GREECE (Ilias Machiras): Partsoglou, Lykoudis 3, Nikolaidis G. 1, Georgaras 3, Tottis, Laskaridis 1, Konstantopoulos, Bitsakos 1, Karatzas, Angelopoulos 2, Spahits 1, Siamas, Levantis .

The goals of Italy were scored by: Gugliotta 4, Gabacciani 2, Salipande 2, Tringali 1.

In the rest of the results: (Group C) France - Malta 15-11 and Netherlands - Turkey 16-9, (Group D): Slovenia-Czech Republic 16-14.

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