Sonstiges » in and kept missing the ball that went st

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Hungary goaltender Viktor Nagy held his fingers to his lips, and the crowd responded with a loud round of boos.Brazil was looking to win Group A in the Olympic mens water polo tournament. Australia was hoping to sneak into the quarterfinals. Nagy had other ideas.Nagy made 12 saves, and Hungary beat Brazil 10-6 on Sunday to remain the only unbeaten team in the competition.Thats his standard. When he is in good form, he is the best goalie in the world, Hungary driver Daniel Varga said. I think in the last three games if he shows this performance we got a chance to win (the) Olympic Games.Hungary improved to 2-0-3 for a Group A-best seven points. Spain played to a 9-9 draw with Montenegro earlier in the day and topped Group B with seven points.Hungary and Montenegro will face off in Tuesdays quarterfinals, and Spain will play world champion Serbia. Greece takes on Italy, and Brazil meets Croatia in the most intriguing matchup of the next round. Brazil coach Ratko Rudic guided Croatia to gold at the 2012 London Games.Its not important who it will be in the quarterfinal, Rudic said. Here all the teams are really strong, and we know very well all the teams.Nagy, drawing the ire of the raucous crowd with his animated intensity, helped Hungary get off to a fast start with his focused performance in net. Gustavo Guimaraes penalty shot with 2:04 left in the second was Brazils first goal, but it was 5-1 Hungary at the break.Australia was eliminated with Hungarys win. It finished ninth, followed by the United States, France and Japan.Rhys Howden and John Cotterill each scored three goals to help Australia beat Greece 12-7 in their final group game, and the United States beat Italy 10-7 in its final game in Rio de Janeiro.U.S. captain Tony Azevedo, goaltender Merrill Moses and defender Jesse Smith were pulled with nine seconds left and waved to friends and family in the stands in what might have been the final Olympic appearance for the American mainstays.Australia bounced back nicely from its 10-8 loss to Serbia on Friday, posting its highest scoring game of the tournament. It also was the most goals allowed by Greece, which had already secured a spot in the quarterfinals.Im very proud of the boys today, Howden said. We came out and gave it everything we had.Moses, a three-time Olympian who turned 39 on Saturday, said it was his last game, but Smith and Azevedo were non-committal. Azevedo scored twice against Italy and finished with five goals in his fifth Olympics, a record for USA Water Polo.Right now Im just pretty depressed, said Azevedo, who turns 35 in November. Im going to take off tomorrow, go home, spend all day at the beach first and then go home, and finish my professional career here in Brazil. Ill be back in two weeks, and then Ill decide what Im going to do in the future.Smith, a four-time Olympian, would only say it was the last game of this tournament, but sounded as if he felt this was it.Im really glad we went out on a win, the 33-year-old Smith said. I think its great for the young guys to go on a win so that I think that theyre going to have a great chance in 2020.Azevedo, Moses and Smith helped the U.S. win silver in Beijing, but the team finished eighth in London in 2012 and then flopped in Rio. It lost three of its first four games to lose out on any chance of matching its performance from four years ago.But the Americans managed to put together a strong finish, despite playing without Alex Roelse, Alex Bowen and assistant coach Jack Kocur due to a trio of suspensions coming out of Fridays 8-5 loss to Montenegro. Moses made six saves while playing most of the second half in relief of McQuin Baron, the likely starter for Tokyo.Its unfortunate how the tournament ended up, Moses said. But I know that we gave it our all and I look forward to the bright future of this young team.Also Sunday, France beat Croatia 9-8 for its first victory of the Olympics, and Serbia surged to a 12-8 victory over Japan.Serbia trailed 5-2 after one, but Filip Filipovic scored four of his six goals in the second half as the world champions rallied for their second straight victory.We started bad and we suffered a lot in the first 15 minutes, Serbia driver Andrija Prlainovic said, but again we managed to win.---Jay Cohen can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jcohenap Fake Saints Jerseys . Its sharpness matched my mind. This was no night to go to sleep. New Orleans Saints Shirts . Now that hes hitting streaking teammates with pin-point passes for easy layups, Love is asserting himself as one of the true superstars in the league. https://www.saintsjerseyssale.com/ . Vancouver Whitecaps and Toronto FC failed to make the postseason while Montreal Impact fell at the first hurdle losing heavily to Houston Dynamo in the Eastern Conference Knockout Round. Custom New Orleans Saints Jerseys . Burke is expected to miss two to three months after breaking a finger in the teams third preseason game. Tinsley, a 10-year veteran, spent the last two seasons in Utah, where the point guard averaged 3. New Orleans Saints Pro Shop . The mixed zone is not a place to make friends. An early let-off for Indias batsmen At the start of the third day, the second new ball was only four overs old and, considering the help the England seamers got in the first hour of the previous days, it came as a surprise when Alastair Cook started with Mooen Ali from one end. The first few overs after a break, especially at the start of a new day, are critical from a batsmans perspective and Im sure both R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja would have also preferred facing Mooen instead of James Anderson in the morning.Rotation only for bowlers?Chris Woakes was the best bowler from both sides in Rajkot and even though he picked up a niggle, he was available for selection in Visakhapatnam. Cook mentioned at the toss in Visakhapatnam that Woakes has been rested under the rotation policy. Incidentally, Woakes has not looked the same bowler in Mohali. Could this be due to a loss of rhythm? Would England rest a performing batsman under the same rotation policy?The case for unpredictability The third ball of the 89th over in Indias innings, bowled by Woakes, was a bouncer. The fourth a fast offcutter that hit the inside edge of the bat. The fifth was a wide and full delivery, which Ashwin played and missed. While there is a lot of focus on discipline and pitching it around the same spot ball after ball, there is also merit in mixing things up quite radically once in a while, especially on flatter pitches. Unpredictability is a tactic worth exploring sometimes. Ashwins lightweight pads An inside edge on to Ashwins pads flew towards the empty point region. His leg guards are the ones without bamboo sticks and cotton inside, and therefore dont absorb the shock. They are much lighter than the ones used by most players (a single leg guard with bamboo sticks inside weighs more than a pair of foam-based leg guards) and allow a batsman to move faster. Since theyre lighter, they dont tire a batsman as much either. The flip side: one has to be careful withh bat-pads going faster and further, sometimes straight to fielders stationed a few yards away from the bat.dddddddddddd(Sachin Tendulkar used the same leg guards throughout his life. Virender Sehwag started using them but stopped it when he got caught and bowled to a seamer courtesy the extra bounce from the pads)Spin and the lack of it In the 10th over of Englands second innings, bowled by Ashwin, Cook was adjudged leg before to a ball that spun sharply after pitching. The England captain reviewed the decision and HawkEye confirmed that the ball pitched outside leg stump. While that ball did not dismiss Cook, it created doubt in his mind. He started playing for the spin and kept missing the ball that went straight after pitching. The delivery that got him out eventually also went straight, but Cook played for the spin and missed the line.Roots view at the non-strikers end At the non-strikers end, Joe Root stood close to the stumps instead of standing at the corner of the box. While that prevented him from taking a start, it did give him a good view of where the ball pitched and headed on for a leg-before appeal. Obviously it is impossible to get the umpires view, but Root did his best to get as close to it as possible to be able to offer the most accurate opinion on whether a decision should be reviewed or not.How boundaries help strike-rotation The England scoreboard almost came to a standstill in the phase when Ashwin and Jadeja were bowling in tandem. While the talk is always about taking singles, the fact is that if you cant hit boundaries, its highly unlikely you will be able to put the ball in gaps, too. The moment you hit a few boundaries, the field spreads out and that allows you breathing space. Therefore its not surprising that Englands dot-ball percentage against spin was a whopping 80% today. ' ' '