Telekom Veszprém – MOL-Pick Szeged 23:17

 

 

Telekom Veszprém: Mikler, Alilovic – Iváncsik 1, Schuch, Ilic 2, Palmarsson 3, Gajic 4 (1), Nilsson 2, Nagy 3, Ugalde 3, Marguc, Terzic, Blagotinsek, Sulic, Lékai 4

 

MOL-Pick Szeged: Sierra, Sego – Obranovic 1, Kallman 4, Bodó 5, Goncalves 1, Zubai, Balogh 4 (4), Skube, Blazevic, Gaber, Sostaric 2, Rodriguez, Bánhidi, Buntic, Bóka

 

Penalties: 1/1 and 5/4

Suspensions: 8 min. and 12 min.

 

 

Xavi Sabaté: Congratulations to my team and to Szeged too. They are a good team and they played well. In the first 10 minutes Sierra was the difference. In the second half we were the better than Szeged. This is a huge win against a great squad which could achieve a draw against the superstar team of PSG in Paris. The worst result was a 4 goals difference for them, so nobody could defeat them with such a big difference. Congratulations to my team again because they played well. There were some people in the beginning of the season who said this team is old and they would not believe we would get this far. Everything is still possible for us. We will see what comes.

 

Máté Lékai: Congratulations to Szeged and to our team. Szeged played well in the first half, but in the second half, our game got stronger. Our defense was good all the 60 minutes long, and Roli saved with 69%, which is also fantastic. We would like to keep the good form on the next match, we are going to have a hard match there. I think not a single team had such a hard season, like us, with that many matches and injuries. We are in the Final4, we will do all what we can. But first we must focus on the second game of the final.

 

 

Juan Carlos Pastor: Congratulations to Veszprém. We got more goals than we deserved. We played a great first half. You should not let a team like Veszprém come back in the game. When they took the lead the game became over for us. We have to work and improve. We would like to win our home game. You can learn a lot of things in games like this and have to improve. We controlled the game until 14-14 and we could have won. After this we made too many mistakes. We have to keep our head up and go on.

 

Richárd Bodó: Congratulations to Veszprém, I am very sad because as our coach also said, we played very well, we could lead he match. I think we are together, but we made a lot of mistakes in the second half, we simply just must not do it against a team like Veszprém. We have to keep working and focusing on the next match.

 

 

Photos: Zsolt Melczer