Heroic Greece, lost with buzzer beater and penalty shootout in the final

Not tears, only thumbs up and infinite responses for the National pole. His team Theodore Vlachou reached a tenth of a second from an epic qualification with incredible overthrow against Spainin the semifinals of the Singapore World, but was equal to 0.1 ” before the end and lost in the penalty shoot -out with 4-2.

The Greek team was found to lose 6-2 three minutes before the end of the second eighty, but with unlikely defense that lasted Spain for… 18:59 ‘ She kept the fate of the fight in her hands. The Iberians, however, equalized at 0.1 ” before the end (!) And the semifinals led to the penalty shoot -out.

There Kakkaris and Skoumbakis found no target and the Greek team will play on Thursday in the small final for the bronze medal against his loser Serbia-Hungary (16:35).

The match:

Quite closed was the start of the game, where the tactic and the hard defenses of the two teams had the first reason. OR Spain It was the one who got into the game best and By exploiting the player above, managed and preceded with 2-0 at 5 ‘, Thanks to the goals of Busto and Sanaoua, at a time when our National was very difficult to “break” the excellent Spanish defense.

The first “blue -white” finish came 2:38 ‘before the end of the period, when our national team won a penalty and Gennidounias turned it into a goal, Before, the Greek leader with Awesome shooting shot 2-3 a minute later. Indeed, Greece had a huge opportunity to equalize in the finale of the first eighty, when his shot Guvetsi In the “dead time” and even the player above, he stopped on Agire’s beam.

In the first phase of second eighty, Ethniki touched the equalizer, however, for the third time in the match, the ball didn’t make us laugh, with Skoumbakis’ shot stopping on the beam. And while the derby continued, at 18 ‘, a tranquilized action of Halivopoulos to throw a punch into a pool And under the water in his opponent, he brought Greece to a very difficult position. And this, because the referees punished With a non -athletic and four -minute expulsion without replacement the Greek peripheral.

Treaty the Iberians took advantage of it, as, with three goals in this hand of Grenados (2) and Sanaus, David Martin’s team preceded the match for the first time in the match. with +4 for 6-2 in the 21st minute of the match. Nevertheless, things could have been even more difficult for our country, however Thanks to the self -sacrifice of our players, George’s interventions and the huge effort in defense In this four -minute, we managed to keep the Spaniards … low. Something we redeemed shortly afterwards, since, when we played in equal, we were able to Guyvetsi’s terrible goal to reduce to 3-6, which was also the first half.

Completely different was the scene In the third quarter, there, where Our national … chewed in defense ironholding In zero Spain throughout the period! Indeed, in combination with the last three minutes of the second eighty, the representative band of our country did not conced a goal for 11 whole minutes. However, aggressively, we were able to find just one goal, with Amazing End of Argyropoulos and reduce to 4-6. One goal, which was our first to the player above, with our National missing a little later for a huge chance for another goal with 2 players above, closing the first 24 minutes of match with just 1/9 of such conditions.

It was obvious that all the psychology and momentum of the race had returned to Greece. Playing … Olympia defense, Thodoris Vlachos’ “gods” touched a huge and historical overthrow! Continuing to get one defense after another, thanks to the blocks and great interventions of George, Greece, with two magic goals by Gilla and Curos, brought the match to 6-6, 4:40 ‘before the final.

In fact, 109 seconds before the end, Gillas with a new amazing goal from the hexamenbrought our national team ahead 7-6, showing the way to victory. However, luck brought them so, that Spain in almost “dead time”, with just 0.1 ” left in the timer, tied up At 7-7 with Munar and sent the game to the penalty shootout, with their first goal after 18:59 …

In the psychedelic penalty shoot -out, Greece was unable to complete its feat, with Kakaris and Skoumbakis losing the third and fourth penalty of our country, and Spain to qualify with the final 4-2.

Eight minutes: 2-3, 3-6, 4-6, 7-7, 2-4 Pen.

Greece (Theodoris Vlachos): Georgzatos, Genidounias 2, Skoumbakis, Giouvetsis 1, Argyropoulos 1, Halivopoulos, Gillas 2, Kalogeropoulos, Alafigis, Kakaris, Nikolaidis, Papanikolaou, Andreadis, Pouros 1.

Spain (David Martin): Agire, Munar 1, Granados 2, Sanachuia 3, De Toro, Larube, Campana, Tahul, Perone, Biel, Bust 1, Lorio, Homila, Valera.