Three defeats in the group, but the right reaction when it mattered most - the young Montenegrin water polo team was better than Germany 11:10 (3:2, 4:4, 2:1, 2:3) in the first knockout match at the World Championship.
Aleksandar Aleksić's men have thus qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Zagreb, where they will face Spain. The clash with the "furies" on the Sava River is scheduled for tomorrow (Thursday) at 17.30:XNUMX PM.
It wasn't easy against the Germans, but our national team gained a key advantage at the end of the second and beginning of the third quarter, when they went from 6:6 to 9:6 through Srđan Janović, Milan Nikaljević and Nikola Petrović.
Germany did not give up, with two minutes left in the game they reduced the score to 11:10, and even had an attack to equalize, but the "young sharks" managed to defend themselves and place among the top eight in the world.
Nikaljević, Tadija Matijašević and Tim Perov each scored two goals for our team, and Janović, Petrović, Draško Samardžić, Meldin Hadžić and Nebojša Petrović each scored one goal, while Danilo Rajević made 11 saves.
In the other quarterfinal matches, Croatia - Greece, Serbia - USA and Hungary will meet against the winner of the match between Italy and Australia.
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