The draw against Greece in the group stage condemned Miki Oca’s team, who faced the Olympic champions earlier than expected (13-8).
The Americans exhibited their defensive strength and will face Italy in the semifinals.
USA crossed again on the path to the glory of Spain, this time early. The disastrous draw in the group stage against Greece ended up condemning the Miki Oca players to compete for the hard part of the frame with the american ogre as a very hard stumbling block to enter the fight for medals. The Olympic and world champions went over Spain, who stood up to the first half of the match but ended up clearly succumbing in the event played in the Margaret Island swimming pool in Budapest (13-8).
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The panorama began to darken a week ago, with those tables against the Hellenic team (10-10) that were devastating. Not even the post-thailand beating could solve the average, since the Greeks beat France by the difference they needed to be first in group. Spain easily beat Kazakhstan in the round of 16, as expected, and ran into the favorites for the title on Tuesday, the team that has won all the major championships since its defeat against Spain in the 2013 World Cup in Barcelona.
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Spain could not take revenge for the defeat in the Tokyo Olympics Final nor of the other two last World Cup finals lost before the Americans. Although equality was maintained in the first period (3-3) and the Spanish took the lead with a Vaseline from Forca (4-5) during the second, USA reacted and already reached the break ahead (6-5).
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The yankee fortress It ended up imposing itself without remedy. Led by the huge Ashleigh Johnson under sticks and some excellent defenders who neutralized Leiton and Maica Garciathe Americans managed short circuit the circulation of the Spanish team, who could not do anything in the face of the superiority of their rivals. The third period closed with 11-8 and the difference was extended to five goals at the end of the duel.
As it happened in 2015 World Cup in Kazanthe Spanish sank in the quarterfinals and will not be able to repeat the last two subchampionships of Budapest-2017 the Gwangju-2019. The USA will meet on Thursday in the semifinals with Italiawhich overwhelmed France in the first quarter-final match of the tournament (17-7).