13th FINA World Championships 2009 - Rome (ITA)
Game 14, 18:20, men, SERBIA 9 SPAIN 11
Monday, 20 July 2009 18:20
Referees: Erhan TULGA (TUR), Gaetan TURCOTTE (CAN)

Quarters: 1-3, 2-1, 3-2, 3-5

Extra man: SRBĀ  5/14; ESP 6/14

Teams:
SERBIA: Slobodan SORO, Marko AVRAMOVIC, Zivko GOCIC (1), Vanja UDOVICIC (2), Slavko GAK, Dusko PIJETLOVIC (1), Slobodan NIKIC (1), Milan ALEKSIC (1), Nikola RADEN, Filip FILIPOVIC (1), Andriya PRLAINOVIC, Stefan MITROVIC (2), Gosko PIJETLOVIC. Head Coach: Dejan UDOVICIC.
SPAIN: Inaki AGUILAR, Mario GARCIA, David MARTIN (1), Blai MALLARACH, Guillermo MOLINA (2), Marc MINGUELL, Ivan GALLEGO (1), Albert ESPANOL (1), Xavier VALLES, Felipe PERRONE (1), Ivan PEREZ (2), Xavier GARCIA (3), Daniel LOPEZ. Head Coach: Rafael AGUILAR.

This game was pure theatre as two class acts combined to thrill a growing crowd. Spain went three goals up at 4-1 but the game was tied three times in the third quarter. It was tied twice more in the fourth before UDOVICIC sent Serbia ahead and another goal went begging that could have had Serbia sitting pretty. Spain fired back into the game with two goals from MOLINA and one from MARTIN to be 10-8 ahead at 2:35. ALEKSIC grabbed one back at
1:44 but then PEREZ scored off the cross at 1:03 for the victory.

 
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