Telekom Veszprém: Székely, Cupara – Manaskov 7 (1), Moraes 4, Nilsson 1, Paczkowski 4, Marguc 9, Lauge 1, Terzic, Blagotinsek 2, Nenadic 3, Hornyák, Ilic, Bodor 1, Mackovsek 3

 

Budakalász Kézilabda ZRT: Váczi, Boros – Váczi 4, Czina, Glück, Borbényi, Nemes 4, Tóth 2, Gábor, Simotics, Mazák, Tóth, Török 2, Koller 8, Sinkovits 1, Hrabák 2

 

Penalties: 3/3 and 3/3

Suspensions:  2 min. and 6 min.

 

Veszprém hosted Budakalász in the Veszprém Aréna. End of the first attack Manaskov scored from the left wing. Then Marguc scored and that was his 900. goal in Veszprém jersey. Cupara started the game with many nice saves and after 10 minutes the home team ran away by 7-2, because of that a guest timeout was called. Budakalász played well and came back within 3 goals. There were many technical fouls on both side in this part of the game. Davis sent the youngsters on the court as well and Veszprém increased its lead to 5 goals (14-9). Despite of Cupara’s saves the guests could come closer at the end of the first half.
 
For the second half Székely changed Cupara and thank to his 2 saves Veszprém scored 3 goals in 2 minutes. The guest team had to call an early timeout again, because Veszprém switched on higher tempo (37. min 22-14). Paczkowski got a lot of minutes on the court and he thanked the trust with nice goals. With Manaskov’s goal the difference was 10 goals between the teams (44. min 26-16). Budakalász got exhausted and they could not find the way through the home defense. The 30. Veszprém goal was scored by Bodor (30-20). Veszprém won the game easily at the end.
 

David Davis: It was hard to play today after Sunday’s Champions League clash. The players got a free day because of that, so we had less time to prepare for today. Congratulations to my players, because although they made silly mistakes, it is part of the game, and I am satisfied with their performance. Starting tomorrow, we prepare for Zaporozhye.
 
Mirsad Terzic: It is always hard to play a match between two CL games, it does not matter who is the opponent. We took seriously the game, and thank to Budakalász for the tough and fair game. A positive thing, that the young players could get opportunity to play more. We prepare for our last CL group match coming on the weekend.

 

 
Gyula Forgács: Congratulations to Veszprém. I think we played an okay first half. We hoped that after the big victory last weekend, our opponent will have motivational problems. I told the boys in the locker room, that if we have a chance to play a close game against Veszprém, then do everything we can. It would have been better to stay below 10 goals difference. We will play over the weekend as well, so I tried to rotate the team as much as possible, and to sustain some energy for that clash.
 
Tamás Koller: Congratulation to Veszprém. It is always a pleasure to play against them, to feel how is to face against a top team such physically such technically. Our goal was to play a close match, the first half was quite good, but in the second half we fell asleep a little bit. The more important game comes on the weekend against Dabas, we want to win that match.

 

 

Photo: Dávid Vörös