It confirmed its superiority against the Netherlands and advanced to his quarterfinals European Championship the Men’s National Polo!
In the knock-out match called for due to Italy’s surprise defeat by Hungary in the group stage final, Vangelis Vlacho’s side had a constant ‘safety lead’ and eventually celebrated the win with 15-10finalizing her appointment with the hostess tomorrow (12/1, 19:30) Croatian! However, there with a significant absence of him Dervishwho was sent off by substitution shortly before the finale.
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First scorer for our national team, which again showed weaknesses in the defensive transition but was effective in the attack, the Genidounias with 5 goals, while our goalkeeper also performed very well, Zerdevas (9/19 saves).
The match started with Kalogeropoulos, Gila staying out and the Dutch opening the scoring with Gbandamashi. Our national team did not take long to find a rhythm with three consecutive goals from Genidounia, Papanastasiou and Vlachopoulos took the lead for the first time (3-1).
The Dutch equalized with a goal from Ten Brok in the player above and another from Te Riele after a steal from Alafragkis, before our national team responded with two goals from Vlachopoulos and Genidounias, within a space of 56 seconds, for the 5-3 of the first eight minutes!
Kakaris after a fantastic dance scored from 2 meters for 6-3, the Dutch reduced to 6-4 having ? in the above, while Genidounias scored his third goal for the 7-4 and Hazelnut did first uploaded to +4 (8-4) with Foudoulis as the scorer.
The half ended with our National Team leading 9-5, Skoubakis and Genidounias they put her in +5 (11-6)by Te Riele to star in the attacks of the Dutch, who were reduced to 11-8. Skoubakis scored again for the 12-8 of the tie (3-3) of the third eight minutes, with our national team comfortably maintaining its lead in the final stretch of the match, until the final 15-10.
The eight minutes: 5-3, 4-2, 3-3, 3-2
Greece (Vlachos): Zerdevas, Genidounias 5, Skoubakis 2, Giuvetsis, Fundoulis 1, Papanastasiou 1, Dervisis 1, Argyropoulos Kanakakis 1, Alafragkis 1, Kakaris 1, Nikolaidis, Vlachopoulos 2, Tjortzatos
Netherlands (Van de Meer): Huismans, Gbadamasi 1, Van den Burgh, Castrop, Van Iperen, Van der Weyden 1, Te Riley 4, Nispeling 1, Muller, De Werd 1, Koepman, Ten Broek 2, Westerfeld
The quarter-finals of the European Championship:
Friday January 12th
16:00 Hungary – Serbia
17:30 Spain – Georgia/Romania
19:30 Croatia – Greece
21:15 Italy – Montenegro
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