At the beginning of the match, Motor took a 2-0 lead, then Veszprém reversed the goals of Patrik Ligetvári. 3-2. With Marguc's amazing goals, Telekom had already led by two, 5-3. Then after a few small mistakes the Motor equalized, 5-5. At this period, Veszprém had a 1-2 goal advantage, then after some hectic play and 15 minutes the result was 10-8 for Veszprém.
In the middle of the first half, 2 fastgoals from Motor and the scoreboard already showed 10-10. By 10-11, the Motor also took the lead. In the goal, Cupara came in to replace Corrales, who didn’t really had any saves. Thanks to Cupara’s saves and the improved defense, we managed to regain the advantage with two quick Marguc goals. The defense was even better, Veszprém was constantly pulling away. After Horiha's 2 minutes suspension, Maqueda scored his 2nd goal.19-13. We went for the break with a 20-14, 6-goal lead.
 
The second half started with Sipos' 2 mins suspension, we kept our 5-6 goal advantage. Mahé came in, we managed nice attacks, but we had little problems with the defense. The score was 24-18 in the 39th minute. Nenadic came to lead, Mahé played in the leftback position and defended in secon position. Inaccuracies characterized our game, errors in attack, from which the Motor was able to make fastgoals and the scoreboard showed only a four-goal advantage. Mahé's actions followed, he scored a nice goal and then fought for suspension for the opponent. But unfortunately some 100% situation were also missed during this period, leaving 25-22. Then another Motor fastgoal. Momir Ilic  timeout at 25-23. After the timeout, we scored two goals in a row. 27-23, Marguc.
 
We immediately scored an empty goal from two good defenses. 30-25. Then at 31-26, Molina received a red card for his fault against Maqueda. Cupara saved twice, Marguc provided an outstanding attack. Due to Mahé's exhibition, Lékai directed two attacks, he divided them nicely into the wind, with Manaskov's goal already 33-26. The goals took turns, then Maqueda started and was already 35-27. The end was 36-28, which put Telekom Veszprém in Sunday's final, deservedly performing well in the semi-finals.

 

Telekom Veszprém – Motor Zaporozhye 36:29 (20:14)
 
Telekom Veszprém: Cupara 1, Corrales – Manaskov 2, Yahia 3, Nenadic 7, Maqueda 5, Nilsson 3, Ligetvári 2, Marguc 9, Strlek 2, Lukács, Blagotinsek, Mahé 2, Ilic, Lékai, Sipos.
 
HC Motor: Viunik, Komok – Kubatko 1, Malasinskas 4, Pukhouski 2, Denysov 2, Tilte, Turchenko, Molina, Kozakevych 3, Dontsov 3, Horiha 8, Burzak, Kasai, Maroz, Vasilev 2, Bokhan 4.
 
7M: 2/1 ill. 3/2
2 min suspension: 10 min ill. 8 min
 
Statistics:
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Momir Ilic
 
First of all thank you and congratulations to the Motor Zaporozhye team for the fairplay. Our play was like up and down. At the first half we started not so good, our game, the defense and goalkeeper were not so good. Then it improved and was much better then, our goalkeeper performance was also.
Also we started the second half the same way in the first ten minutes, then after much much better to  the finish. I was satisfied with this part, but the rest we have to play better. I can see know that there will be a little bit work more on it, but we will do it.

I don't expect an easy match in the final either, as there is always a big fight for the title. Zagreb is also a good team, all of respect for them, we will preapare how long we have time to be ready for this match.  

 

 

I am really happy to qualify for the final, that’s the most important thing. If I could help I try to do my best to help the team so I am also happy with that to give my part. Yes we played a lot of games against Zaporozhye in the Champions League so we expected a tough game today. I think both coaches said that we have a strong finish in both half, so the here is we made the difference. And of course we are really happy and excited for the final on Sunday. We know Zagreb and Zagreb know us of course, final is a final, it is only one game, anything can happen, we will go fully motivated focused, and we go for the title of course.