\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGreece\u2019s Women\u2019s Under-20 national water polo team secured a thrilling place in the PYTHIA CUP 2026 \u2013 Women U20 final after defeating the Netherlands 18-17 on penalties following a 14-14 draw in regulation time in Itea.<\/p>\n
Kassi\u00e1na Margar\u00edti and goalkeeper Nik\u00f3l Kyriakopoulou starred in Greece\u2019s dramatic semi-final victory.<\/p>\n
Margar\u00edti kept Greece\u2019s hopes alive by scoring the equaliser to make it 14-14 with just 0.9 seconds remaining on the clock, forcing the match into a penalty shootout.<\/p>\n
Kyriakopoulou then emerged as the hero, producing two crucial saves during the shootout to help Greece seal victory and book a place in the gold medal match.<\/p>\n
Greece will face Russia in Thursday\u2019s final (30 July, 11:30 local time), while Italy and the Netherlands will contest the bronze medal.<\/p>\n
Match score by quarter<\/p>\n
First quarter: 4-4
\nSecond quarter: Greece 5-3
\nThird quarter: Netherlands 4-3
\nFourth quarter: 3-2 Netherlands
\nPenalty shootout: Greece 4-3<\/p>\n
Greece squad<\/p>\n
Head coach: Lembesis<\/p>\n
Kyriakopoulou, Margar\u00edti (2), Kovasevits (1), Four\u00e1ki (3), Drakoto\u00fa (3), M. Papadopoulou, Klapsiano\u00fa, Beta, Tsiougkr\u00ed (2), Krass\u00e1 (1), Karagi\u00e1nni, Karabetsou (1), L\u00e9kkou, Saltaman\u00edka (1), Th. Papadopoulou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece\u2019s Women\u2019s Under-20 national water polo team secured a thrilling place in the PYTHIA CUP 2026 \u2013 Women…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12904,22684,6,22685,5044,248,22686,22687],"class_list":["post-34892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netherlands","tag-greece","tag-greece-u20","tag-netherlands","tag-pythia-cup","tag-russia","tag-sport","tag-water-polo","tag-womens-water-polo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}