Croatia Takes 3rd Consecutive Win In World League European Tournament

Group B’s Croatia with 9 points are followed by Greece in the ranking who have accumulated 6 points so far. The Hellenic team scored 16 goals against 7 for the French in Athens (4-3, 4-1, 5-2, 3-1). The Netherlands and France complete the ranking in this order with 3 and 0 points respectively.

Group A’s games were a lot closer as both Germany-Romania and Slovakia-Serbia ended up in ties. Serbia narrowly beat Slovakia 18-17 after penalty shootout, while Germany took the victory 14-13 after a long penalty session. As a consequence, Serbia maintains the lead of Group B, followed by Slovakia and Romania (4 points each) and Germany with 1 point.

Finally in last night’s Group C’s only game, Italy defeated Georgia 14-5 despite a slow first quarter (1-2, 5-1, 3-1, 5-1).

Current ranking after round 3

Group A: SRB 7pts (2W, 1Wp); SVK 4pts (1W, 1Lp, 1L), ROU 4pts (1W, 1Lp, 1L); GER 1pt (1Wp, 2L)
Group B: CRO 9pts (3W); GRE 6pts (2W, 1L); NED 3pts (1W, 2L); FRA 0pt (3L)
Group C: ITA 6pts (2W); RUS 3pts (1W, 1L); GEO 0pt (2L)

The fourth round of the FINA Men’s Water Polo World League 2017 will take place on February 14. The following games will be played:

1. GER-SVK
2. ROU-SRB
3. GRE-CRO
4. FRA-NED
5. RUS-GEO

News courtesy of FINA.