The penalties were cruel again with the Spanish water polo team. As it happened two years ago, what could have been his first European title escaped him again between his fingers. If against Serbia the hero was Dani López Pinedo, who won this title this time was a Soma Vogel who jumped into the water on the fourth pitch to take over from Viktor Nagy. The young goalkeeper knew how to hold the guy to the maximum before Álvaro Granados and ended up seeing how his launch, the last of the round, crashed into his body to give Hungary a new continental gold.

In a very competitive, well-matched match, Spain had a couple of good options to prevent the championship from finally deciding on penalties. Alberto Munarriz, just after placing the 9-9 on the scoreboard, saw how his pitch was blocked by the rival defender and Blai Mallarach, against it, after recovering the ball himself and after an accelerated epic charge, he found a Nagy who, with his stops throughout the meeting, was one of the most prominent in Hungary .

The locals were surprised by Spain in the first quarter. The team that coaches David Martín came forward through Álvaro Granados and left 1-3 on the scoreboard with two goals from Alberto Munarriz after Gergo Zalanki's momentary draw.

The locals, with a Duna Arena overturned, turned the situation around in a second quarter with an incontestable 3-0 run. Daniel Angyal, Gergo Zalanki and Denes Varga scored the goals. López Pinedo avoided major evils by adding more outstanding interventions to his credit , but Spain lost stuck in attack and even mistook the best of his options: a penalty on Miguel de Toro. The launch, precisely by Álvaro Granados, crashed into the crossbar.

In the second part, meanwhile, history seemed doomed to repeat itself again and again. As soon as Spain was able to match things on the scoreboard, Hungary quickly moved forward again . Marton Vamos and Kristian Manhercz would be responsible for countering the goals of Blai Mallarach and Marc Larumbe, the latter author of a petroleum jelly that surprised Nagy.

In the last quarter, however, fortune seemed to want to smile again at Spain with a goal at Zalanki's own door. Those of David Martín managed to break the positive tonic of the Magyars, finally tied the tie and even had two very good options to take the game that the local defense was responsible for disrupting. Everything, again, was going to be decided on penalties. And there , fortune, again, turned its back on the Spanish team .

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