The staye is set for Italy and Croatia as they will get into the pool and face off to see who takes home the gold medal of the Men's Water Polo finals. The action begins at 10:50 a.m. ET/3:50 p.m. GMT.
The Croatians come into the match with a perfect 7-0 record. They have battled in all their games and have been on the winning side of some lopsided match ups.
Croatia first defeated Greece 8-6. Then they beat Spain 8-7. They beath both Australia and Italy 11-6. Then breezed by Kazakhstan and the U.S. 12-4 and 8-2 respectively. The victory against the U.S. came in the quarterfinals.
In their last match, Croatia beat Montenegro 7-5 to advance into the finals.
As you can tell, Italy has not had a perfect road to the finals. The only other game that did not finish in a win was their 7-7 tie with Greece. Aside from that, the Italians beat Australia 8-5 and Kazakhstan 9-6. They beat Spain 10-7 in the last game of the first round.
They got past Hungary 11-9 in the quarterfinals and then defeated Serbia 9-7 in the semis.
Both Croatia and Italy are members of the Group A pool where they finished first and second.
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