Foreshadow: Veszprém – Brest

 

Telekom Veszprém will play against Meshkov Brest in the SEHA – Gazprom League semifinal on Friday at 18:00. The game will be broadcasted live from Zadar by Spíler TV.

 

 

It is the fourth time Veszprém qualified for the Final4 of the SEHA League, and the fourth time we will face Meshkov Brest in the top four. The three previous encounters were exciting. Although we managed to beat them confidently in the final in 2015, with a 32:21 final result, the semifinal in 2016 was ended in a penalty shootout with a 24:21 Veszprém victory, and a year later we also took the game to the limits of excitement and won again by penalties 33:31.

 

In last year’s swift ending season we met them twice in the SEHA League group phase. In the first round, in away, we won in a close game of 27:28, with Rasmus Lauge scoring six times. The second game on home court brought no surprises and won 32:23 confidently. Manuel Strlek scored eight goals, which made him only the second top scorer of the game, because Mikita Vailupau scored twelve times.

 

 

Brest finished on third place in the group, after us and Zagreb, and met with Beijing University winning with a huge aggregate difference of 87:49. In the quarterfinal they faced Ukrainian champions Motor Zaporozhye, whom they beat 30:28 in the first leg, then 33:28 in the second, hence qualifying to the top four to Zadar.

 

There was a moderate movement in the roster of Brest, as six players left with four newcomers arriving. William Accambray, Branko Kankaras, Darko Djukic, Nemanja Obradovic, Artsiom Kulak and Daniel Andrejew left the club, while Pawel Paczkowski came from Veszprém, Vladimir Vranjes signed with Tatabánya, Stats Skube left Vardar for Meshkov, and Dmirtry Santalov parted ways with Chekhovskie Medvedi.

 

Telekom Veszprém hosted another K&H League game on Wednesday, when they took the court against Csurgó. The “Építők” started really well and kept their opponent on zero goals for ten straight minutes. The final result speaks for itself, 40:21 for Veszprém!

 

Let’s go Veszprém!

 

 

Photo: Dávid Vörös