Foreshadow: Brest – Veszprém

 

Meshkov Brest will host Telekom Veszprém on Tuesday at 17:15 (Hungarian time) in the SEHA – Gazprom League.

 

 

We have been meeting with Brest for almost every season in the last few years, and this season is no exception. Our first game brought huge excitement in away. We managed to win under the interim head coach, István Gulyás, thanks to mainly Mikler’s penalty save in overtime. On the home game, the “Építők” did not leave the decision until the very end, and won 28:20 against Brest.

 

Meshkov reached the Final4 spot in the SEHA League after the regular season. In the semifinal, they lost in a close game against the future champions, Vardar, 25:23. In the bronze game, they won with a confident 19:24 result and took home the third place. Top scorers of the team last season were Darko Djukic, Petar Djordjic and Maxim Baranau with 60 goals each. The most assists of the league came from Sandro Obranovic, who gave out 47 key passes. The second best goalkeeper of the championship turned out to be Ivan Matskevich, who stood in the net of Brest 12 times and saved with a 32,5% efficiency.

 

 

In the Champions League Brest did well in the group phase, so much so that they reached the top 16. In the eightsfinal, they met with, the later on knocked out by Veszprém, Flensburg. Although in their home game, Brest reached an optimistic 28:30 loss, they did not stand a chance in Germany, and lost 30:20, therefore, got knocked out of the series.

 

The roster of our next opponent went through a pretty big change, as the eight leaving players were substituted by seven arrivals. Branko Kankaras, Jaka Malus, William Accambray, Mikita Vailupau, Nemanja Obradovic and Marko Panic will play in blue this season, while Sime Ivic left to Erlangen, Vid Poteko to Celje, Pavel Horák to Kiel, Petar Djordjic to Benfica, Dzainis Rutenka and Siarhei Shylovic to Minsk, Andrei Yashcanka to Billére and Valiantsin Kuran to Morrazo Cangas.

 

Telekom Veszprém played against Vác last time, in the K&H League, last Saturday. The game held in Veszprém Arena ended with a 40:26 home victory, our of which Manuel Strlek scored 9 goals.

 

The game tomorrow will be broadcasted live on ehfTV.

 

Let’s go Veszprém!

 

 

Photo: Dávid Vörös