The Italian team defeated the defending Olympic water polo champions, Hungary. With a score of 11-9 in the quarterfinals in a dramatic match. The defending world champion Italy proved completely overwhelming before the 9-time Olympic champion team, Hungary.
Hungary’s ambition to win the fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal has been suppressed after 3 defeats in 6 matches in the tournament. Failure to Italy officially ended Hungary’s dominance in water polo content.
The defending world champion Italy proved completely overwhelming before the 9-time Olympic champion team, Hungary. Hungary’s ambition to win the fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal has been suppressed after 3 defeats in 6 matches in the tournament. Failure to Italy officially ended Hungary’s dominance in water polo content.
With this victory, Italy will meet the Serbian team in the next round. Serbia beat Australia early today with a score of 11-8. Before that, Australia surprised the defending European champions and the championship candidate before the tournament. They took the lead 5-8 in the first two games before being overturned by Serbia in the following halves.
In the remaining matches, Boris Zlokovic became the hero of Montenegro. With four goals scored to help the Southern European team beat Spain 11-9. Montenegro was full of hope to surpass his record in Beijing in 2008. In that year’s tournament, they were eliminated by Hungary in the semifinals and went on to lose the match against their Serbian brother in the third match.
Thereby, it lost the chance to win the medal. Montenegro’s opponent this time will be Croatia team, the team that won over America with the score of 8-2. Croatia is also the team with the highest form at this year’s Olympics with 6 wins since the start of the tournament. After the Covid-19 translation, Italy also plans to train for the return day to ensure the full end of the sport of 2020 as well as a basis for preparing for the new season.
