Water polo, the Setterosa knocks down France and flies to the world semifinal

Carlo Silipo’s Setterosa flies to the semifinals at the Budapest World Cup. He enters the great medal game after having overwhelmed France (17-6), and awaits the winner of the USA-Spain on Thursday. The Americans are the holders, indeed the rulers of world women’s water polo. Convincing the performance of the blue, who were looking for a great relaunch after the elimination from the Tokyo Games. Now at the helm there is Silipo who has created a “happy” Setterosa, what a thrill and does not intend to stop: he wants to leave Budapest with a medal also mindful of the elimination in the quarters of 2017 always in Margaret Island. A brace from Sofia Giustini to begin with, but a penalty from captain Guillet and the flashes of Vernoux keep the match in balance. Marletta scores the 3-2 from zone-4 at the end of the first set. In the second set, in superiority and from the short side, Silvia Avegno brings the Setterosa 4-3 back in front, and then breaks through centrally for the 5-3. In goal, Caterina Banchelli confirms that she is careful to close every draft. It is the partial of the extension with a brace from Sofia Giustina: 7-3. The third half opens with Chiara Tabaiani’s goal from below for an 8-3 of tranquility. Sofia Giustini, author of six goals, is impressed, and in sequence the diagonal hat-trick of Silvia Avegno (10-3) and the brace of Claudia Marletta accrue. There is no game with a 10-0 break. Meanwhile, at 4 pm there is USA-Spain, at 7 pm Greece-Holland and at 9 pm Australia-Hungary. Italy had so far drew with Canada 7-7, beat Hungary 10-9 and Colombia 31-5. Now the victory over France, who remained without a goal for almost two full halves. This Setterosa also works in defense.

ITALY-FRANCE 17-7 (3-2, 4-1; 6-1, 4-3)

ITALY: Teani (Banchelli), Tabani 2, Marletta 2, Avegno 3, Queirolo, Giustini 5, Picozzi 1, Bianconi 1, Emmolo 1, Palmieri, Galardi, Viacava 1, Banchelli. Herds Silipo.

FRANCE:Vidal, Millot 1, Fitaire, Bouloukbachi, Guillet 4 (1 rig.), Benlekbir, Dhalluin, Battu, Vernoux 2, Bahia, Radosavljevic, Daule, Collas. Herds Bugeaud. REFEREES: Painchaud (Can) and Savinovic (Cro). NOTES: numerical superiority Italy 9 (5 goals), France 8 (1). Out for 3 fouls Bahia in the fourth time.