“Cleaned” Montenegro and the national team is playing for 5th place

The men’s national polo team defeated the powerful Montenegro 14-12 for places 5-8 of the Split European Championship and next Saturday they will challenge for the fifth place against Georgia or France.

The Greek team presented two faces in the match. In the first two eight minutes, he made many mistakes and did not find a rhythm neither in attack nor in defense. This allowed the Montenegrins to take a 5-3 lead in the first half.

Afterwards, the image of the national team changed the whole match. The representative group with individual scores of 6-2 in the third period took the lead. The Montenegrins tried again to take the lead, but to no avail.

The first scorer for the blue and white team was Dinos Genidounias with 5 goals.

Greece had a very good percentage of the player above 6/8 and 2.3 penalties. Montenegro had 7/15 BC. and 1/1 penalty.

Eight minutes: 2-1, 3-2, 2-6, 5-5

MONTENEGRO (Vladimir Gojkovic): Lazovic, Murisic, Radovic, Averka 2, Mirsic, Popadic, Perkovic, Durdic 2, Ukropina 2, Spaits 1, Matkovic 2, Petkovic 3, Tesanovic

GREECE (Thodoris Vlachos): Limarakis, Genidounias 5, Skoubakis, Giuvetsis 1, Argyropoulos – Kanakakis 2, Papanastasiou 2, Dervisis, Alafragkis 1, Gillas, Kakaris 1, Nikolaidis 1, Vlachopoulos 1, Tjortzatos

After the end of the match, the federal coach, Thodoris Vlachos, emphasized that: “Immediately after the lost quarter-final, where we lost the opportunity to enter the top four and claim the medals, we set the next goal, that is to try to conquer the best strong position, the fifth. Because, the team must show character and compete in whatever conditions arise.

Why, we also have new children, who must be nurtured with these principles. I think we showed character today against a team that is very good, but they were also more motivated than us in this particular game, because they wanted the win to secure qualification for the 2023 World Cup.

We had our own motivation, our own purpose in the game. The match started very close and it seemed like we were scoring goals on the dropper, but I think that, finally, in this tournament, we managed to score some important and easy goals against a great opponent. In the second half we came on strong, with nice combinations, despite the fact that the Montenegrins came close at the end.

We got a reaction. We didn’t want to leave here, having only beaten Malta and Israel. We want to be strong in the next major events as well, with the qualification and distinction at the Olympics in Paris as a background.”

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