The men’s team won bronze at the European Games and kept the Olympic dream alive

After the defeat suffered by the Spanish women’s rugby sevens team the day before, when it fell in the quarterfinals of the European Games in Poland and was left with no chance of qualifying for the Olympic Games in Paris, the group of men He did his homework on the game for him brass played this Tuesday in the Polish event. The ‘lions’ won the medal and, above all, the pass for the World Pre-Olympic next year defeat Portugal 42-0.

The rugby sevens tournaments in Poland distributed one direct ticket per gender for the Games and two more tickets for the World Pre-Olympic. Therefore, being out of the top3 caused the collapse of the Olympic race. In this way, then lost to Great Britain 7-19 in the semi-finals In the early afternoon, the men’s team played their cards for Olympic survival in the bronze medal match against the Portuguese.

In fully learning the lesson, with the memory of the defeat surely suffered against Portugal four years ago In the quarterfinals of its European Pre-Olympic equivalent, which left Spain out of the Games, Spain took revenge by turning the game over to the Portuguese. He made it into an exhibition from start to finishcommitted to attack and without giving any option to its neighbors.

Spain came out to bite Portugal from the start. Pol Pla he left alone after two minutes to score the first try. a recovery of Joseph Serres caused the second try four minutes into the game. Juan Pedro Ramos He scored two more tries in the latter stages of the first half which, along with four converted conversions, ended with a clear 28-0 score for the Spanish team.

With no rest in the second half, Pol Pla scored another try three minutes later to recover well Manuel Moreno. Alejandro Laforga closed with a final rehearsal, with bouquets made no mistakes from the kick throughout the match. In a test that was nullified by Portugal in the final bars, Spain finished with a 42-0 run that equaled bronze but, more importantly, Olympic survival.

This will not be easy to achieve, because the World Pre-Olympic It will be played by twelve teams with one place at stake. Of course, Spain is still alive in the race in Paris and he makes it a valuable copper to continue dreaming.

The women, fifth

While the women’s group this Tuesday achieved the fifth position of the European Games. After the blow of a quarterfinal loss against the Czech Republic on Monday that left him with no Olympic options, Spain defeated Italy 38-0 and Germany 26-5 to tie for fifth place.