Greece is in the final of the water polo tournament of the Tokyo Olympic Games, securing its first Olympic medal in its history.
The National Team of Greece prevailed with 9-6 of Hungary in the semifinal of the Olympic tournament and wrote the most brilliant page in its history, hoping that on Sunday in the final the history will be written in golden letters.
Ethniki's opponent will be determined by the result of the other semifinal between Serbia and Spain.
In terms of the development of the match, Greece lost three opportunities with one player more at the beginning of the match, but the defense was once again inaccessible. After 6,5 minutes of play, Argyropoulos took advantage of the fourth penalty won by the Greek team and opened the scoring and immediately after Giouvetsis doubled the goals, but Vamos reduced in the last seconds of the first period.
Argyropoulos with a very nice and difficult action scored his second personal goal at the beginning of the second eight minutes, but a little later Hungary reduced to 3-2, which did not change until the end of the half.
Hungary improved somewhat on the player above in the third period and managed to equalize twice, but Stelios Argyropoulos continued to give valuable solutions and Greece took a 6-5 lead in the last decisive eight minutes. Manhertz in a player above equalized again. Then, Foundoulis scored 7-6 and Vlachopoulos above brought the blue and white to plus 2 (7-5), about five minutes before the end. Denes Varga temporarily reduced, but Costas Giouvetsis and Dimitris Skoumpakis "sealed" the Greek triumph with 9-6.
Eight minutes: 2-1, 1-1, 2-2, 4-2
The evolution of the score: 1-0 Argyropoulos (pp), 2-0 Giouvetsis (pp), 2-1 Vamos (pp), 3-1 Argyropoulos (pp), 3 -2 Zalanki (region), 3-3 Pastor (BC), 4-3 Argyropoulos (BC), 4-4 Manhertz (BC), 5-4 Argyropoulos (BC) , 5-5 Mancherts (b.c.), 6-5 Foundoulis (region), 7-5 Vlachopoulos (b.c.), 7-6 Varga (b.c.), 8-6 Giouvetsis (b.c. .), 9-6 Skoumpakis (region).
Referees: Goldenberg (USA), Voevodin (Russia)
The compositions:
GREECE (Thodoris Vlachos): Zerdevas, Genidounias, Skoumpakis 1, Kapotsis, Foundoulis 1, Papanastasiou, Dervisis, Argyropoulos 4, Mourikis, Kolombos, Giouvetsis 2, Vlachopoulos 1
HUNGARY (Tamas Marts): Nagy, Angial, Manchertz 2, Zalanki 1, Vamos 1, Hossianski, Pastor 1, Jansik, Erdeli, Varga 1, Mezei, Harai