Men's Water Polo LEN European Championship 2018

[hckošice 14,838]

Team SVK finished its campaign in the very strong preliminary round group D pointless as expected but with a lot of new experiences and lessons for our relatively still very young guys.

 

Now we can hope for some wins in the remaining phase of the tourney, next match the 13th-16th place semifinal against last team of Group B (loser of France vs Malta later today)

 

 

 

Preliminary Round Group D

Serbia - Slovakia 13:5 (5:1, 3:3, 2:1, 3:0)

Goals:

Mandic, Randjelovic, Cuk, Aleksic, Jaksic and Filipovic 2, Vico 1 - Ďurík 2, Úradník, Maroš Tkáč and Marek Tkáč 1

 

Power Plays: 5/6 - 0/3, Penalty Goals: 1/1 - 0/0, Referees: Paoletti (ITA) and Kikalishvili (GEO)

 

Serbia: B. Mitrovic (from 16. G. Pijetlovic) - Mandic, Rasovic, Randjelovic, Cuk, D. Pijetlovic, Vico, Aleksic, Jaksic, Filipovic, Prlainovic, S. Mitrovic

Slovakia: Hoferica - Vidumanský, Zaťovič, M. Úradník, Ďurík, P. Tkáč, Maroš Tkáč, Marek Tkáč, T. Bielik, Čaraj, Kolárik, Baláž

 

[AlFHg 330]

-8 with Serbia is a great result for a "non-elite" team

[Rafoo 219]

45 minutes ago, AlFHg said:

-8 with Serbia is a great result for a "non-elite" team

Serbia will defend the title

[AlFHg 330]

Probably, unless Italy or Croatia will make a half miracle

[dareza 911]

No. No way. Serbian team is not in good form. 

[hckošice 14,838]

8 minutes ago, dareza said:

No. No way. Serbian team is not in good form. 

 

Yeah I know this story just like in Rio, who cares about preliminary round = draw HUN, draw GRE, lose to BRA, obligatory win over JPN at half gas and then - Knock out round and suddenly boom bam boom, goal here, goal there and Gold medal number 1564215346 in a row from major tournament

[dareza 911]

28 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

Yeah I know this story just like in Rio, who cares about preliminary round = draw HUN, draw GRE, lose to BRA, obligatory win over JPN at half gas and then - Knock out round and suddenly boom bam boom, goal here, goal there and Gold medal number 1564215346 in a row from major tournament

 

[Rafoo 219]

55 minutes ago, AlFHg said:

Probably, unless Italy or Croatia will make a half miracle

Hard for us...we are whitout sukno like whitout duvnjak in handball

[hckošice 14,838]

Looks there two peoples in the stands and both with SVK flag, so we are going to have home advantage today cmon guys ! let mark a win at this tournament, Slovensko do toho !

[hckošice 14,838]

13th-16th Places Semifinals

Malta - Slovakia 6:11 (2:3, 1:4, 3:2, 0:2)

Goals:

Zammit 2, Abela, S. Camilleri, Plumpton and Cousin 1 -  Ďurík and Kolárik 3, Zaťovič 2, Maroš Tkáč, T. Bielik and Baláž 1

 

Power Plays: 2/7 - 1/10, Penalty Goals: 0/0 - 1/1, Referees: Mercier (FRA) and Santos (POR)

 

Malta: Grixti (from 8. Tanti) - Gabarretta, Galea, Abela, Spitteri Staines, M. Zammit, S. Camilleri, J. Camilleri, Plumpton, Cousin, Bugelli

Slovakia: Hoferica - Vidumanský, Zaťovič, M. Úradník, Ďurík, P. Tkáč, Maroš Tkáč, Marek Tkáč, T. Bielik, Čaraj, Kolárik, Baláž