Fast, exciting and taking the game on. That's how Australia's women's water polo team wants to play and they were all that and more in a nailbiting Olympics victory against the Netherlands.
Substitute goalkeeper Genevieve Longman's late cameo has delivered Australia 's women's water polo team a penalty shootout win against the Netherlands .
With Australia edging ahead courtesy of having the first shot in the tense shootout, Longman produced a masterful, match-winning save.The substitute instinctively used her left hand to reach and block a powerful shot from the Netherlands' Lola Moolhuijzen."We want to keep putting together four-quarter performances and showing the world what Aussie Stingers water polo is all about – fast, exciting, trying to take the game on, making it a good spectacle and an enjoyable one.
'She won't be beaten by anybody any time soon': Jess Fox produces another golden moment with C1 titleHere's the medal standings for day five of the Olympic Games
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