Russia wins first group position
The Turks fight well just for a short time. In the second half there is only one team playing. The 35:16 victory for Russia means good luck: they avoid to face Croatia in the semi-final already.
While Turkey only had a theoretical chance to enter the knock-out round Russia was determined to win the match with a 7 goal lead to replace Germany at top group position.
In spite of their 4:1 start though this mission was endangered seriously after 11 minutes when the Turks suddenly scored 3 goals in a row.
Further on the first half looked like a privat duel between the two stars Mustafa Ozbay and Murat Chomaev who both scored important goals for their teams. Since the Russian player eventually was backed-up by his team they were back to quota at half-time with 15:9.
With this comfortable lead the Sbornaja could play light-heartedly and they increased it almost by the minute. The Turks on the other hand struggled too much with referee decisions and lost the connection to the game. The bitter 16:35 defeat was the result.
The only positive news of the day for Turkey: Because of the better goal-quota compared to Denmark they play against Italy for place five on Friday at 17:00h.
Five hours earlier Russia as first in group A will meet Serbia.
Goals Russia: Dremkov 2, Panov 1, Skafar 3, Digurov 2, Storozhev 6, Kitaev 4, Chomaev 11, Maluev 1, Burykin 5
Goals Turkey: Ozcelik 1, Kilzilkaya 1, Denil 1, Gundogdu 1, Atak 1, Yilmaz 1, Ozbay 10
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