Defeat by Croatia (11-10) and exclusion of our national team from the 4th place - For places 5-8 with Italy

Our National Youth Men's Water Polo (U19) team was defeated by Croatia 11-10, on Thursday (5/9), in the quarter-finals of the European Championship, which is held in Burgas, Bulgaria, and was eliminated from the quartet of the organization.

The Greek team will face Italy on Friday (6/9) at 15:15 for the 5-8 places.

The game was lopsided and was decided in the last period when the Croatians led 10-8 (4.58 before the end of the match) and 11-9 (in the last three minutes). 

At the beginning of the match, the players of Ilias Machira found themselves behind in the score (3-6 in the second period), however, they managed to lead 8-7 (3.24 before the end of the third period) with... Lykoudis, but, in the end, they were defeated in the details.

Detailed variation HERE

GREECE – CROATIA 10-11

Eight minutes:3-4, 2-2, 3-2, 2-3

GREECE (Ilias Machiras): Partsoglou, Lykoudis 6, Nikolaidis G., Georgaras, Tottis 1, Laskaridis, Konstantopoulos, Bitsakos, Karatzas 1, Kandanoleon, Spahits 2, Saleh, Levantis.

The goals of Croatia were scored by: Prkoca 2, Susic 2, Guzi 2, Pavlic 1, Fajkovic 1, Bourdierez 1, Toncinic 1, Burburan 1.

The results

(Positions 15-16): Slovenia - Czech Republic 9-11

(Positions 13-14): Malta - France 8-9

(Positions 9-12): Netherlands - Bulgaria 22-6

(Positions 19-12): Romania - Turkey 18-19 (reg. match 12-12)

(Positions 1-8): Serbia - Montenegro 17-18 (reg. match 13-13)

(Positions 1-8): Spain - Italy 9-8

(Positions 1-8: Hungary – Germany 11-10

(Positions 1-8): GREECE – Croatia 10-11

Friday's schedule (6/9)

10:00 (Positions 11-12): Bulgaria – Romania

11:45 (Seats 9-10): Netherlands - Turkey

13:30 (Positions 5-8): Serbia - Germany

15:15 (Seats 5-8): Italy - GREECE

17:00 (Positions 1-4): Montenegro – Hungary

18:45 (Positions 1-4): Spain - Croatia

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