Her losing 15-14 on penalties (regular match 7-7) met the Junior Polo National Team from Spain, in their second match for the U18 World Championship, which is being held in the city of Chengdu, China.
Her band Eftychias Karagiannis made an excellent appearance – especially in defense – and took a 6-3 lead, three minutes before the end of the third period (although during this period he had missed two penalties). The Spanish women managed to take advantage of the eliminations they won and with three unanswered goals they tied at 6-6 with Almeda, halfway through the last eight minutes. Karabetsou with a penalty at 3΄11΄΄ gave the Greek team the lead again, but Penalver responded immediately and the same player had the opportunity to give “rocha” the victory in the final of the regular match, but Kyriakopoulou blocked the shot who attempted to a female player above.
In the penalty shootout and after 15 consecutive accurate executions on both sides, Drakotou was defeated by De los Reyes and Spain took the two points and effectively “captured” first place in Group A.
The national team has the opportunity to secure second place, which gives direct qualification to the quarter-finals, if they win tomorrow (18/9, 08:30) in Italywhich prevailed today 11-8 of the Netherlands.
The eight minutes (with the national one first): 1-2, 2-0, 3-2, 1-3
On penalties: 7-8
The composition of the Greek team: Konstantopoulou, Margariti, Kovacevich 3, Fouraki 1, Drakotou 2, Piovan 5, Beta, Galanopoulou, Klapsianou, Karabetsou 3, Kyriakopoulou, Economou, Krassa
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