Spain wins bronze in the Water Polo World Cup

by time news

2023-07-29 09:15:40

For the third consecutive World Cup spain continues in the wave, this Saturday he won the bronze medal against Serbia (6-9), in a game in which the defense and, especially, the goalkeeper Edu Lorrio made the difference.

He could not repeat getting into the final, after a scary movie ending against Hungary, but those of david martin They add a bronze to the gold medal last summer at the Budapest World Cup and the 2019 silver in Gwangju.

Spain kept a clean sheet for eighteen minutes. When the Serbs pressed harder (5-6) at halftime, the defense appeared, and especially Lorrio. The goal, in the shadow ofand Unai AguirrThroughout the tournament, he put in an impressive performance, with a 68% success rate, stopping thirteen of the nineteen shots from the Balkans.

And that after the psychological downturn that led to the defeat in the semifinals against Hungary at the last second, it was difficult for Spain to enter into the matter.

From the start they seemed the most involved Serbs in the game. More intense. The Balkans, in full reconstruction, found themselves with the possibility of fighting for bronze, after the Greeks did not give them any option in the semifinals and they did not want to miss the opportunity.

And Spain suffered at first. He started low on the scoreboard, with a goal from Strahinja Rasovic, the tournament’s top scorer, recovered with two goals from Álvaro Granados and Alex Bustos, in two superiorities. But at the end of the first quarter everything was balanced (3-3), with another goal from Rasovic.

David Martín’s men had to recover emotionally, but also to the harshness imposed by the Serbs in the pool. In the second room, Tahull made it 3-4 for Spain and Jaksic balanced the game.

In the Neo Beograd scorers duel, between Granados and Rasovic, the Spaniard balanced the balance with two consecutive goals, the last from a penalty, to give David Martín’s team a 5-6 lead at half-time.

Edu Lorrio, Unai Aguirre’s replacement today, had a prominent role in the take off from spain on the scoreboard in the third half. Four interventions by the Sabadell goalkeeper, one of them in a shot from the buoy, gave air to David Martín’s men.

The partial reached 0-3, with two good goals from Munárrizlaunch, and Perrone. The captain’s goal summarizes the happy game of the Spanish, with a robbery, an action in transition and the 5-8.

The defense and the goal made the difference in this third quarter and eight minutes from the end, Spain had everything in their favor to take the game and the bronze medal and they did not fail.

signed a immaculate last room. Felipe Perrone (5-9) scored a goal and only conceded one goal, five seconds from time, and by VAR intervention for the final 6-9.

Next year will be decisive for the team’s Olympic future. You need to qualify for the paris games and they will have two opportunities to do so, one in January at the Netanya European Championship (one place for the champion) and the other (with two places at stake) at the Doha World Cup next February.

Datasheet

6 – Serbia: Mitrovic; Radulovic (-), Rasovic (3), Drasovic (), Jaksic (1), Jankovic (-), Vucinic (-) -equipo inicial-, Milojevic (2), Randelovic (-), Lazic (-) y Ubovic (-).

9 – Spain: Lorrio; Munárriz (1), Granados (3, 1p), de Toro (-), Larumbe (-), Famera (-), Perrone (2) -initial team-, Sanahuja (1), Cabanas (-), Tahull (1 ), Mallarach (-) and Bustos (1). EFE

partial: 3-3, 2-3, 0-2, 1-1.

Referees: Ohme (GER) and Colombo (ITA). Eliminated: Famera, Drasovic, Ubovic, Jankovic and Sanahuja.

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