In his finals Super Final she qualified Women’s national polo!
The “blue and white” had one foot in the finals and despite the defeat (4-3) by Australia on penalties, they passed with the “golden” point of the tie with 15-15 and mathematics in the final phase of the Fukuoka World Championship! With the defeat on penalties, the “blue and white” got one point, while Australia got two.
Greece took the lead from the start (3-1), with Australia coming back (3-3) but unable to get ahead on the score (4-4, 5-5, 7-6).
With a goal from Nino, Myriokephalitaki the National Team escaped for the first time with +3 goals (9-6, 2:27 before the end of the first half) and seemed to control the match (11-8, 11-9, 12-9, 12-10), against Australia (wanted a 4-goal win , in order to have hopes) not to give up the match, of course to fight. In fact, he not only reduced the lead (12-11) three minutes before the end of the third period, but evened the score (12-12) with a goal by Casey of Panioni and went ahead for the first time (12-13) with Halligan’s goal on the counter!
She also wrote 12-14 at the beginning of the last period, with Vaso Pleuritou he answers immediately for 13-14 and Irini Ninou to equalize (14-14) with a goal to the player above.
Ridge retook the lead (14-15) to Australia, with Eleftheriadou tying it at 15-15 (lucky goal with the ball off the block and into the net) with 1:09 left in the game. 15-15 didn’t change until the final and so we went to penalties.
There Margarita Pleuritou, Myriokephalitaki missed, the Australians were accurate and with 4-3 won a prestigious victory.
The eight minutes: 4-4, 7-5, 1-4, 3-2. Penalty: 3-4.
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