The winner of the second semifinal between Italy and the USA will be measured
Unai Aguirre, the goalkeeper of the Spanish team, was the player of the match
Spain has beaten Hungary 10-8 and will play the World League final (at 4:00 am on Monday morning) that will be played in Long Beach (United States) against the winner of the second semifinal between Italy and the USA.
The goalkeeper Unai Aguirre was the best of a game in which Spain dominated from the beginning to the end.
Hungary is finally relegated after being a wall in decisive matchessuch as the 2022 European semifinal where the Magyars won.
After the win against Germany in the quarterfinals (18-9) the semifinal against Hungary would be a matter of defensesjust as the Magyars applied against Greece (6-4).
The first quarter was the best reflection with a single goal for Spain -from Alberto Munarriz over the head of Marton Levai- in a quick eight minutes with no exclusions.
If there was only one goal in the first quarter, in the second there were up to 7 and all of them great goals, for the beautiful invoice of the goals scored.
Munarriz placed the ball in the squad and in the following action, Roger Tahull sealed the 3-0 after an assist more typical of basketball by Felipe Perrone from the band.
It took the Hungarians 11 minutes to beat Unai Aguirre, but when they did, they worked quickly with the stamp of goals from Daniel Angyal and Szillard Jansikthis one from far away for 3-2.
Bernat Sanahuja with a house trademark goal (4-2) and again Angyal continued with the festival of successes of this period (4-3).
Roger Tahull was right in the first superiority that Spain had coinciding with the last attack to get two up (5-3) at intermission.
Spain had taken good steps in search of the final up to that moment, but the step was gigantic in an excellent third quarter.
Sergi Cabanas and Blai Mallarach opened with two goals, for the same site, to extend the income to four goals (7-3).
The defense and Unai Aguirre dried up the Magyars, who only managed a superiority well executed by Fekete, after five minutes of drought.
David Martín’s players completed their great quarter with Marc Larumbe’s first goal and the second from Sanahuja for a 4-1 run and a 9-4 aggregate.
Hungary woke up from its offensive lethargy with two goals from Martin Vamos, one from a penalty, and another counterattack by Kristian Manhercz to make it 9-7 three minutes from the end.
There, Alberto Munarriz appeared again to score 10-7 over Levai’s head and avoid further trouble on the scoreboard. Nagy scored the final 10-8, returning the partial 1-4.
Data sheet:
10-Spain: Aguirre (Lorrio); Munarriz (3), Granados (-), Sanahuja (2), De Toro (-), Larumbe (1), Famera (-), Cabanas (1), Tahull (2), Perrone (-), Mallarach (1) , Busts (-)
8-Hungary: Levai (Vogel); Angyal (2), Manhercz (1), Molnar (-), Vamos (2.1p), Nagy (1), Zalanki (-), Fekete (1), Nemet (-), Varga (-), Jansik (1) , Vigvary (-)
Partials: 1-0, 4-3, 4-1, 1-4
Incidents: First semifinal of the World Cup played in Long Beach (United States).