U20 roller hockey European Championships 2016: Results of the quarterfinals
The U20 European roller hockey European Championships 2016, which are be held in Pully, Switzerland, were continued this Thursday with the quarterfinals. The first team that qualified playing against the fourth team that qualified and the second against the third. Results of the games...
Par Jean LASSUEUR
From one game to another
A quick summary
In the first game, England fought a long time against France, but France finally managed to win with a 3:2 victory.
Spain also fought hard to defeat Andorra – the third Spanish goal just happened in the last minute.
On the other hand, Italy had no problems and clearly defeated Germany by 4:0.
Despite a clear victory, the Swiss have withstood the Portuguese up to the 36th minute.
France – England 3-2 (1-1)
In total there were three penalties: a Frenchman at the beginning of the game and two English at the end of the first half time. Givency Tshilombo and Joshua Branchett were the two scorers to the 1:1. Charles Oakes, the English goalkeeper, played a fabulous game in the first 20 minutes.
After the break, Xavier Menguy was penalized with the 10th French foul, and Roberto Di Benedetto increased the score to 2:1 in a confusing situation with the goalkeeper.
Alexander Mount regulates the situation 3:2, but shortly after there was another punishment for England, which did not allow them to equalize.
Remi Herman and Alexander Mount got a one minute penalty, lastly there was a final penalty for France. Despite the fact that the English goalkeeper played a fabulous match, France took the victory.
France
Marwan Boughani, Xavier Menguy, Tom Mfuekani, Bruno Di Benedetto, Rémi Herman, Givency Tshilombo (19 ‘), Roberto Di Benedetto (25’ 2x), Mattis Rault, Nathan Gefflot, Arnaud Cremese,
Coach: Stéphane Hérin
England
Charles Oakes, Thomas Allander (C), Alexander Mount (27 ‘), Harry Chittenden, Robert Allander, William Rawlinson, Joshua Branchett (19’), William Foreman, Marco Giancola, Harry Parfitt
Coach: José Carlos Amaral
Referee: Miguel Guilherme (Portugal) and Filippo Fronte (Italy)
Germany – Italy : 2-7 (0-4)
Germany could not resist Italy for long: after 11 minutes it was already 0:3 after two goals from Francesco Compagno and one goal by Nicolas Barbieri.
At the end of the first half, Davide Gavioli shot another goal.
In the 23rd minute Giacomo Maremmani increased to 0:5. Three minutes later Thomas Kohler scored the first German goal: 1:5. Alberto Greco has increased the goal difference to 5 by scoring another goal for Italy in the 28th minute. In the last 50 seconds Filipo Zambon shot the Italians to a 7: 1 lead. Thomas Kohler reduced the gap to 2: 7 due to the tenth fouls on the Italian side.
Germany
Leon Brandt, Jonas Langenohl, Lucas Seidler, Thomas Kohler (25 ‘), Joshua Dutt, Niko Morociv, Maximilian Becker, Aaron Borkei, Sebastian Rath, Daniel Strieder
Coach: Jordi Molet
Italy
Bruno Sgaria, Mattia Verona (C), Alberto Greco (28 ‘), Nicolas Barbieri (7’), Davide Nadini, Francesco Compagno (6 ‘and 11’), Davide Gavioli (16 ‘), Andrea Fantozzi (40’ Filippo Zambon, Giacomo Maremmani (23 ‘)
Coach: Massimo Mariotti
Referee: Xavier Bleuzen (France) and Sergi Mayor (Spain)
Spain – Andorra : 3-0 (2-0)
Sergi Llorca scored the first goal for Spain in the 4th minute, shortly after Nil Roca scored another goal in the 15th minute. In the second half of the match, Andorra continued with a strong resistance until Nil Roca scored another goal. So the Spanish won with 3:0.
It was a duel without a single blue card and a minimum of fouls: 7 on the Spanish side, 4 on the Andorran side.
Spain
Blai Roca, Arnau Prat, Nile Roca (15 ‘and 39’), Raul Fernandez, Sergi Llorca (4 ‘), Xavier Serrallonga Pol Molas, Pablo Najera, Roger Bars, Catala, Arnau Xaus
Coach: Sergi Macia
Andorra
Carlos de Sousa, Ivan Odena, Anton Borrell, Marc Rodriguez, Adria Antequera, Marc Pallares, Oriol Antequera, Gérard Miquel Sole (C), Arnau Sole, Arnau Dilmé
Trainer: Roger Corral
Referee: Johannes Schneider and Steff Jordi (Switzerland)
Switzerland – Portugal: 0-8 (0-2)
Switzerland played an outstanding match over a long time.
In the first half of the match, the Swiss played at the level of the world champions from 2015, although they were behind with a gap of 0:2 after a double goal from Gonçalo Nunes (5 ‘and 9’). For the second half, anything was possible.
In addition, the score remained 0: 2 until the 31st minute, when Gonçalo Conceição scored 0: 3. After 36 minutes the Portuguese finally managed to show their strength and scored a series of five goals, the last one in the last second. A high victory for the world champion, but it was not what the game was like.
Switzerland
Marc Böchlinger, Nicola Tommasi, Nino Wyss, Mike Gianella, Cedric Wagner, Lorenzo Rui, Sven Kunz, Gian Rettenmund, Yves Walther, Gregorio Boll
Coach: Pedro Antunes
Portugal
(Gonçalo Nunes (5 ‘and 9’), Antonio Trabulo (40 ‘), Gonçalo Conceição (31’ and 38 ‘), Tomas Moreira, Gonçalo Pinto (C), Pedro Batista, Carlos Loureiro
Coach: Luis Duarte
Referee: Lars Niestroy (Germany) and Derek Bell (England)
The program of the semifinals this Friday
2:30 pm: England – Germany
4:30 pm: Andorra – Switzerland
6:30 pm: France – Italy (semi-finals)
20:30 pm: Spain – Portugal (semi-finals)
