Israel’s youth team tonight (Friday) defeated Portugal in the European Championship qualifiers held in Israel. In the second game at home, the Czech team defeated the Romanian team – tomorrow (19:30 at the Wingate Institute) Israel will meet the Czech team when the winner wins a ticket to the European Championship in Georgia
Israel – Portugal 0: 3 (12:25, 16:25, 11:25)
The first campaign started with a blue 6: 0 blitz, following Israel’s impressive offensive moves increased the advantage to 3:10, Nikita submitted four consecutive Serbs that become points that raise Israel to 14: 3. The Portuguese team failed to stop the Israeli momentum and the advantage increased to 19: 5. The blue and whites flew to the end of the campaign and won 25:11.
The second set opened with 4: 2 for Israel, taking with Ace gives the fifth point to Israel and later 9: 5 to Israel. The Portuguese team, which is considered weak at home, looked disorganized and the Israeli advantage grew to 6 points 11: 5, from there the blue and whites continued the excellent game when a block of Lieberman raises Israel to 14: 8 and immediately after that with an excellent left left continues the excellent Lieberman with the 15th point.
The third campaign opened with an Israeli 6: 2 advantage. The Israeli team was also better than the Portuguese in the third set 10: 4, and later the advantage increased to 16: 7. The Portuguese defense failed to stop the Israeli landings that cut the three line on the way to victory in the battle and in the entire game of the Israeli team.
We excelled in the Israeli team: Mark Rora with 10 points and Shai Lieberman with 8 points.