Our water polo players were defeated by Italy 6:5 in the third round of the water polo tournament at the Olympic Games in Rio. This is the second defeat of the "sharks", which will face the selection of the United States in a direct duel for the quarter-finals, on Friday at 4:40pm Montenegrin time. The duel against Italy was marked with a number of goals following an exculsion – out of 11 such situations our team scored on only three, which means that a good defense was not sufficient for a positive result on this occasion. "The attack failed, this is the point. We need to bring that in order, if we want to proceed to the quarterfinals. It could have been different, but now the most important thing is to be optimistic and believe that we can win the next game", said Brguljan. "We have a coaching staff that can prepare us well, we have enough experience to not panic and quality to win against the Americans" said Sasa Misic.