The water polo national teams of Serbia, Spain, Hungary and Italy registered clear victories at the start of the European Championship.
Serbia convincingly defeated Israel 18:3 (3:0, 8:1, 3:1, 4:1), the Spaniards defeated Romania 16:9 (4:1, 4:2, 5:4, 3:2) , Hungary was better than Slovenia 23:7 4:3, 6:2, 6:0, 7:2), and Italy won against Slovakia - 21:9 (5:3, 7:2, 4:2, 5 :2).
Radomir Drašović and Marko Radulović led Serbia to victory against Israel, a debutant at the European Championship, with four goals each. Dušan Mandić added three, while Strahinja Rašović, Petar Velkić and Ognjen Stojanović each scored twice.
The goals for Israel were scored by Orr Schlein, Ido Goldschmidt and Ronen Gross.
With the goals of Drašović and Mandić, with one more player, and the goal of Strahinja Rašović after a counterattack, Serbia reached a three-goal advantage after the first quarter.
Dejan Savić's men were even more efficient in the second half, scoring as many as eight goals, thus practically solving the question of the winner of this match. At the end of that part of the game, the Israelis scored their first goal at the European championships through Or Shlein.
Serbian water polo players continued to maintain a big lead without major problems and calmly brought the match to an end.
In the second round of Group D, on Wednesday, Serbia will play against Hungary, which also got past Slovenia without any major problems.
The current champions, the Hungarians, were led to a convincing victory by Gergo Zalanki with four goals and Wendel Vigvari and Burija Gergej with three goals each. In the Slovenian team, Benjamin Popovič was the best with three goals.
World champion Spain was convincing against Romania. The Spaniards already had a five-goal advantage at halftime (8:3) and calmly brought the match to an end.
Granados was the most effective during the "fury" with five hits.
In a group that also included Montenegro, Italy was convincing against Slovakia and decided the winner at halftime.
"Azure" was led by Di Soma with five goals. Joki scored four, and Di Fulvio and Maricali scored three each.
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