Foreshadow: Veszprém – Montpellier

 

Telekom Veszprém will host Montpellier HB in Veszprém Arena in the VELUX EHF Champions League’s Match of the Week on Sunday. The game starting at 17:00 will be broadcasted live by Sport 1.

 

 

The last encounter between the teams kicked off rather closely. Although the home team could get a four goals lead in the first half, Veszprém managed to climb back and looked for the second half with only a one-goal deficit of 11:10. In the second period, Veszprém could not bring the wanted performance, after they could not play well enough neither in defense, nor in offence. Montpellier won 23:18 at home, and Veszprém has not scored this few goals this season so far again. The top scorer of the game was Melvyn Richardson with eight goals, while from the Hungarian Mahé finished with five.

 

Montpellier is currently on fourth spot in our group in the Champions League, really close behind us, trailing by a point. So far, they won seven times and lost four times, while also drawing once. Their losses were suffered against Vardar, Porto and Kiel back-to-back. In their last game they beat Belorussian side Brest 30:26. Their top scorer is Hugo Descat with 61 goals.

 

 

Our opponent is kid of struggling in the Lidl Starligue, after losing the last four games, putting them on fifth position on the table. In the last four rounds, they lost to Nantes, Ivry, Istres and on Thursday against Chambery. They are standing with eight wins, two draws and six losses. Hugo Descat is in great form in the domestic league as well, here he has 84 goals so far.

 

Telekom Veszprém lost their last Champions League game, when they played against THW Kiel in Germany last time. The almost all the way close game ended in a 29:28 home victory. The “Építők” play in the Hungarian league last time against Mezőkövesd, and won confidently 26:46. The top scorer of Veszprém in the Champions League is Petar Nenadic with 58 goals.

 

Let’s go Veszprém!

 

 

Photo: Dávid Vörös