From Malaga in 2008 to Barcelona in 2018, whenever water polo players from Montenegro and Hungary met at the European Championships, the epilogue was the same - a victory for our national team.
The great rivals will meet again at the Old Continent Championships today at 3:15 PM in the "Belgrade Arena", but things have changed a lot in the last almost eight years.
They celebrated the "sharks" in the group in 2008, then in the semifinals in 2012 and 2016 in Eindhoven and Belgrade, respectively, and then in 2018 in the match for 5th to 8th place.
Hungary finally celebrated their triumph at home in Budapest when they celebrated in the semi-finals in 2020, and then went on to win in the quarter-finals two years later in Split.
It sounds a bit unreal, but the victory in Barcelona in 2018 is Montenegro's last victory over a major rival in all competitions.
Since then, the "sharks" have not known triumph - is it time for Dejan Savić's young team to end their streak today in Belgrade?
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