A goal in the last second of the side 'Shandy' Barbosa allowed Spain to take a giant step towards the pre-Olympics , after beating this Friday 26-27 to Montenegro , in a meeting in which the "Warriors" gave a real lesson of character.

And is that the mental strength of the Spanish team, allowed Carlos Viver to overcome a match that seemed lost in the second half, with the four goals of disadvantage (23-19) with which the Spanish team came to have.

But when everything seemed more complicated, the "warrior" character of the team emerged, which, based on exceptional defensive work, completely developed a Montenegrin team that already saw victory in his pocket. If until then Spain had not been able to contain the launches and penetrations of the central Milena Raicevic and the side Jelena Despotovic , authors of four goals each, in the final stretch of the match the Spanish team completely dried the Balkan players.

With a frenetic activity of legs the Spanish team not only began to close all the paths of the goal to Montenegro, but also began to cause continuous losses and steals, which allowed Spain to deploy its counterattack game.

So in the race Carlos Viver's were gradually decreasing their disadvantage to equalize the contest (23-23) in the absence of less than eight minutes to the conclusion. Where the defense did not arrive, the imposing figure of goalkeeper Silvia Navarro appeared , who with her interventions ended up despairing Montenegrin players who spent more than fifteen minutes without scoring any goal.

In fact, Navarro was in charge of putting Spain ahead on the scoreboard (23-24) with a goal from goal to goal, which allowed to complete the comeback to the Spanish team.

But neither did the Spanish team relax, which continued to punish every mistake of the Balkans to place themselves with a three-goal rental (23-26) in the absence of three minutes to conclude that they seemed to sentence the triumph of the "Warriors."

But far from it, since if Spain stands out for its combative nature, no less fighting are the Balkan players, who clinging to the goalkeeper Marina Rajcic forced the Spanish team to play victory in a final attack, after matching (26-26 ) marker.

Last action in which Spain did not fail taking the victory definitively with a nine-meter launch of 'Shandy' Barbosa , which not only brings the Spanish team to the pre-Olympic players, but also allows the "Warriors" to dream of higher levels , after arrive undefeated and full of points to the second phase of the World Cup.

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