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Spain is ahead of Canada and will compete for medals

Miki Oka's team will play in the semifinals and repeat for the medal against the powerhouse USA

Today, Monday, the Spanish women's water polo team defeated Canada (12-9) in the quarter-final match of the 2024 FIFA World Cup, in a duel in which it was greatly superior in the first half and knew how to contain the reaction of the Canadian women. Ultimately, to face the United States in the semi-finals in search of another World Cup medal.

Spain, the current runner-up in the world after losing the final on penalties to the Netherlands in the last event in Fukuoka, knows that it will seek medals against the strong United States team, which beat Australia (10-9) before the World Cup. The “Water Warriors” will jump into the Aspire Dome in Doha.

It will be a semi-final match that Spain arrives at after beating Canada with some doubts, but nothing to worry about. Spain dominated the first two groups and fell in the last two, but in a match in which the two teams played against each other and there was some leniency in the refereeing with the defensive solidity of the North American team.

However, with the bad luck that accompanied Spain in some of the goals it received with shots that changed its direction, the difference became 9-3 in favor of the Spaniards in the third group. And going from there to the final 12-9 (3-6) in just about 12 minutes will undoubtedly be what Miki Ohka will have to consider and try to avoid against the USA.

The Spain match was good overall. Those nuances to be refined, in the face of a Canada going further and increasingly closer to the global elite, were not serious. The best thing about the duel is seeing Judith Forka in hammer mode. The Catalan, who scored 5 goals for her team, appears in big matches and is already active in Doha.

After Spain's 14-10 win over Canada in the group stage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, this victory extends the good run of the 'Guerreras' against the Canadians, who have yet to win an official match against the group led by Miki Oka. . Against USA it will be a different story, but with the Spaniards wanting not to repeat the blunder of this afternoon regarding the sticks, the crossbar and bad luck.

Another positive note against Canada was seeing goalkeeper Martina Terry stop 50 percent of the shots received. As well as the Spanish effectiveness in additional women's movements (4/7) and good defenses in inferiority, which allowed Canada to score in only half of its attacks with one additional one (4/8).

At the end of the match, which was exciting and included a wonderful exchange of strikes and goals, the Canadian national team, led by David Baradillo, chose to play with an attacking goalkeeper and played several 7 vs 6 matches in the water, with one goal and one goal scored. Ari Ruiz attempts to score from his home field into an empty goal, without any luck. Arie Ruiz who made it 12-7, which Spain declared the match won, with very little left, then left in the tale of the final part of the match with a score of 0-2 making that score deceptively close on the match sheet.

data sheet.

–Score: Spain, 12 – Canada, 9 (7-2, first half).

–equipment.

Spain: Martina Terry (P); Anni Espar (1), Pia Ortiz, Nona Perez, Paula Crespi (1), Elena Ruiz (2), Judith Forca (5), Paula Camus, Maica Garcia (1), Paula Layton (1), Ari Ruiz (1) And Isabel Piralkova.

Canada: Goudreau (P); Crevier (3), Wright, McDowell, Bacock (1), Lemay-Lavoie (1), McKelvey, Brown (1), Paul, Laroche (2), and Mimedes (1).

–Parts: 3-1, 4-1, 2-3 and 3-4.

– Referees: Liang Zhang (Chile) and Natalia Markopoulou (Greece).

– Swimming pool: Aspire Dome in Doha.