Serbia U20 : Iceland U20 81:67 ( 23:16, 16:22, 17:12, 25:17)
U20 Men national team of Serbia won the first place at the European Championship B division after it defeated Island in the final game. Thus, the team coached by Vladimir Jovanovic ended the tournament without being defeated .
Our players have fulfilled their goal – return to A division. Iceland team was not easy to defeat as their goal was also to win this competition.
Iceland team made a row of 11:0 in the first five minutes of the second period and took led 23:27, even though at the end of the first quarter our team led 26:16). In one moment the score was 27:34 but our players released opponent’s pressure and ended first half time with serial 12:4, which meant that at the half time score was 39:38
In the second part our players were better, and after five minutes our team went to plus nine (51:42) which was a signal that they had caught their rhythm. At the end they won.
Luka Paunovic with 17 points was most efficient, Aleksa Kovacevic scored 15, while Vojin Medarevic and Mihailo Musikic had 14 points each.