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Not a bad few days for the Italian men water polo team.

Led by Valentino Gallo three goals, Italy upset Serbia 97 on Friday to advance to the Olympic final against undefeated Croatia, which beat Montenegro 75 in the other semifinal.

The 2011 world champion Italians scored four unanswered goals two of them on deflections over a fiveminute stretch in the first half of a bruising contest to take a 52 lead and control of the match.

Serbia, led by 2010 world player of the year Vanja Udovicic and 2011 winner Filip Filipiovic, rallied to get to 65, but Italy goalkeeper Stefano Tempesti made a string of saves and got some <a href="http://www.coatanea.fr/doudoune-moncler-femme-c-3.html" rel="nofollow">doudoune moncler femme pas cher</a> help from the posts to hold the Serbs off.

are a young team. We are very crazy and we work a lot and we have a fantastic coach and now we <a href="http://www.coatanea.fr/" / rel="nofollow">moncler france</a> play for the final, Italy defender Maurizio Felguo said. work a lot this year and we hope to do a match like this and congratulations to Serbia but today we are very, very organized and we played very well. Friday second semifinal was a rematch of the 2011 world championship final in Shanghai, China, which Italy won 87. The Italians <a href="http://www.coatanea.fr/doudoune-moncler-femme-c-3.html" rel="nofollow">doudoune moncler femme pas cher</a> have 11 players back from that squad, and while the country was expected <a href="http://www.coatanea.fr/" / rel="nofollow">doudounes moncler</a> to be a contender coming into London, it was considered to be a notch below the favored Serbs.

we are the same level as in Shanghai, Italy coach Alessandro Campagna said. told you that each match we would play better and better, and this is what has happened. Our physical condition is going up and I think that we deserved to win this game very much. Very strong physically, but we play very clever tactically. For Serbia, which has won nearly every major tournament since settling for bronze at the 2008 Beijing Games, the loss comes as a huge shock, and means the country will have to wait for its first Olympic water polo gold as an independent country.

I may be honest, we didn have luck today. In the first quarter they scored on us two sudden goals from blocked shots, and from that position it hard to catch (up), Serbia coach Dejan Udovicic said. shots that we usually score, we didn score today. This is the difference. In Sunday final, Italy will be looking to win its fourth Olympic gold in men water polo and the first since 1992.

Croatia advanced after getting two goals from Sandro Sukno and a sparkling performance from goalkeeper Josip Pavic against Montenegro.

Aleksandar Ivovic scored first for Montenegro, but it was all Croatia <a href="http://www.coatanea.fr/doudoune-moncler-femme-c-3.html" rel="nofollow">moncler doudoune femme</a> after that as they slotted  home the next five goals to take a 51 lead at the half.

game, Niksa Dobud of Croatia said with a grin as he licked blood off his right pinkie finger. never felt so tired like now, but it nothing because we are in the final. We play again great defense, we were aggressive. Our offense was not so good, but when you are good in the back, you are so calm in the attack. With Friday win, Croatia avenged its quarterfinal loss to Montenegro four years ago in Beijing and earned a shot at its first Olympic water polo title, and first medal in the event since silver at the 1996 Atlanta Games.

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good performance, all the tournament, from the first game to this game, Croatia coach Ratko Radic said.

much, much easier to be in the Croatian goal when your teammates play defense like this because they play extremely good, very, very well, fantastic, and that the key of our success, said Pavic, who has a tournamentleading save percentage of 71 percent.

Montenegro, which finished fourth at the 2008 Games, will play for bronze.

today didn play well, and Croatia played very well. Congratulations to them because today they were the better team, Montenegro captain Nikola Janovic said. was one of the difficult matches in this tournament. We know they are very, good team, they are strong, they are tall, and we today, in the end, couldn do anything.