Spain smashes Italy
In the first highlighted match of the tournament Spain didn’t leave any chance to Italy and earned a comfortable 16-10 win. Spain’s Roser Tarrago enjoyed a terrific match as she netted 7 goals. The other favourites added big wins again.
8 ITA BIANCONI Roberta Italy Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena Italy (white caps) Vs. Spain (blue caps) women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
5 ESP TARRAGO AYMERICH Roser Spain Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena Italy (white caps) Vs. Spain (blue caps) Women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
4 VAN DER SLOOT Cathari NED – Netherlands 2 VOSSEBERG Belen NED – Netherlands Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena GER – Germany (white caps) Vs. NED – Netherlands (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
5 WOLVES Iris NED – Netherlands Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena GER – Germany (white caps) Vs. NED – Netherlands (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
12 DAULE Audrey FRA France Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena ISR- Israel (white caps) Vs. FRA – France (blue caps) Women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
3 KURUCOVA Janka SVK Slovakia 10 GYONGYOSSY Aniko HUN Hungary Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena SVK – Slovakia (white caps) Vs. HUN – Hungary (blue caps) Women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
3 MATE Zsuzsanna HUN Hungary Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena SVK – Slovakia (white caps) Vs. HUN – Hungary (blue caps) Women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Pasquale Mesiano / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
5 NED WOLVES Iris Netherlands, 4 NED VAN DER SLOOT Catharina Netherlands Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena GERMANY (white caps) Vs. NETHERLANDS (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
11 RUS IVANOVA Evgeniya Russia, 11 SRB MILICEVIC Ana Serbia Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena RUSSIA (white caps) Vs. SERBIA (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
13 RUS KARNAUKH Anna Russia Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena RUSSIA (white caps) Vs. SERBIA (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
12 RUS FEDOTOVA Anastasia Russia, 1 SRB LAZIC Vanja Serbia Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena RUSSIA (white caps) Vs. SERBIA (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
BRUZZO Florian coach of France Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena ISRAEL (white caps) Vs. FRANCE (blue caps) Women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
12 FRA DAULE Audrey France Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena ISRAEL (white caps) Vs. FRANCE (blue caps) Women XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo © Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
Official Ball KapSeven Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena Croatia (white caps) Vs. Greece (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
11 GRE PLEVRITOU Eleftheria Greece, 5 CRO LORDAN Dina Croatia Budapest 13/01/2020 Duna Arena Croatia (white caps) Vs. Greece (blue caps) XXXIV LEN European Water Polo Championships 2020 Photo ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
Women’s Round 2
Group A: Croatia v Greece 3-18, Russia v Serbia 27-2, Slovakia v Hungary 2-20.
Standings: 1. Russia 6, 2. Hungary 6, 3. Greece 6, 4. Croatia 0, 5. Serbia 0, 6. Slovakia 0
Group B: Italy v Spain 10-16, Germany v Netherlands 3-23, Israel v France 6-10
Standings: 1. Netherlands 6, 2. Spain 6, 3. Italy 3, 4. France 3, 5. Israel 0, 6. Germany 0
Though a huge game was expected early in the evening between 2019 world silver medallist Spain and Rio runner-up Italy, it ended up in a bit of disappointment as the game offered no real excitement. It quickly turned into the same one-sided match as any other so far in the tournament: Spain rushed to a 2-5 lead in eight minutes and was already 4-9 up at halftime.
Roser Tarrago was simply unstoppable in the first half, she netted 6 and finished the match with 7 goals. Spain was already 5-12 up in the third before the Italians managed to pull back two but the gap never dropped below 5 goals till the end. Besides poor defending, Italy’s miseries were mirrored by their shooting precision, only 13 attempts were on target out of 27.
In the other games Russia set the daily scoring record once more, this time with 27 goals (against Serbia – the men’s match tomorrow is set to see a different outcome). The title-holder Dutch side almost repeated the same win against Germany (23-3) what they had delivered against Israel on the opening day (22-3). In fact, the big teams’ defences worked well today, Greece also conceded only 3 goals, and Hungary held Slovakia on 2.
France earned an important and comfortable win against Israel and took the first important step to secure a quarter-final berth – they still need to overcome Germany in the next round on Wednesday.
Today the first positive VAR-check occurred (goal was called and the call stood in the game between Italy and Spain), on the opening day a call had been overturned and the goal was revoked after the referees checked the replay.
On Tuesday the men’s tournament kicks off at 10.00 – this time the evening clash between Italy and Greece promises something extra, at least that is expected, just like before the second round of the women’s tourney…
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