An important victory was achieved by National Youthin its B category U18 European Championship held at Tel Aviv of Israelwhich prevailed with 31-25 on her Netherlandsat the premiere of the event and made a qualifying step for the foursome.
In the first part of the match, the two teams were close to the score, however our representative team went to the locker room with a one-goal lead (12-11).
In the second half, he entered more dynamically and managed to increase the difference up to +7 (27-20), to finally get the victory with 31-25. It is important to note that the Greeks had more two-minute suspensions, as a result of which they were with one less player for most of the match.
On his part, her technician National Youth, Yannis Pilalidis he said after the end of the match: “This is our first official appearance at a major event and it’s nice that it came with a win. We have taken an important step for the quartet, but we must be vigilant. Against the Czech Republic we have to be just as serious, competitive, disciplined and determined for the positive result. We don’t know much about the dynamics of the Czech Republic, but we expect a tough match. We will give everything for the positive result, as we want to hold our fate in our own hands and not wait for combinations of results”
Next matches are scheduled for Monday 8/8 at 15:00, where they will face the Czech republicwhile with a victory they will lock the first place in the group and find themselves in the semi-finals Friday 12/8.
Netherlands (Gielen): De Lange, Van der Bruggen, Axt, Peters, Van Berlo 1, De Jong 2, Hendricks 6, Eusen 5, Klobe 3, Soltes 1, Bjerkens 3, Hoogland 1, Hugenberg, De Laater, Veselnik 2, Bijl 1.
Greece (Pilalides): Daios, Kalyvas 3, Vardaxopoulos, Panagiotou 12, Tsortekis, Boutkaris 1, Cavazis 2, Kouroupis, Prokopiou, Kouvrakis, Batis, 8, Koutoulogenis 5, Charitonidis, Marinos, Kolezakis, Vassiliou.
Referees: Peretz – Schwartz (Israel).
Two minutes: 5 Netherlands-10 Greece.
Red: Cavazis (57:21 – three two minutes).
Penalty: 1/4 – 4/6
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