In the second half the guests attacked first, but after a counter attack Nilsson scored first, then with Strlek’s goal there was a 10 goals difference for the first time (19-9). Nenadic continued his extraordinary performance, he organised well the home attacks. After a small blackout Plock came back to 6 goals. After a bad move Yahia suffered injury, he had to leave the court. Reaching the middle of the half Veszprém kept the confident lead and played in powerplay after a Polish red card (25-18). In the guest team Kosorotov was the best, but Veszprém did not let them closer (54. min 28-21). The Nenadic show ended, he scored his 9th goal and sit on the bench after a standing ovation. At the end Veszprém reached a confident, 10 goals victory.

Telekom Veszprém – Orlen Wisla Plock 32:22 (17:9)
Telekom Veszprém: Corrales, Cupara – Yahia 2, Nenadic 9, Nilsson 5, Elísson 1, Ligetvári, Marguc 3, Strlek 3, Lukács, Mahé 1, ElDeraa 4, Pechmalbec 3, Vailupau 1, Sipos
Orlen Wisla Plock: Witkowski, Jastrzebski – Daszek 2, Lucin 3, Piroch 2, Yasuhira 1, Sroczyk, Serdio 3, Susnja, Sarmiento, Krajewski 1, Perez 1, Terzic, Dawydzik, Zhitnikov 2, Kosorotov 7
2-minutes suspension: 8 perc ill. 20 perc
7 meters: 1/1 ill. 3/2
STATEMENTS
Coach statements
Xavier Sabate: For me it was an emotional come back, after 5 years it was a big moment for me. But of course we came here to play a game. I would like to congrat to Veszprém. We have surely different goals now. I was satisfied with our defence in the first 10 minutes but we had a lot of technical mistakes, missed a lot in clear situations. Corrales was fantastic today. I am satisfied the work what we did till now and we have to continue it. We focus on the next six days, we will have a derby against Kielce. I would like to congratulate to Momo and Veszprém and good luck for them.
Momir Ilic: First of all, I would like to congratulate to my team for this excellent game, we played great today. We could not win, and we did not play well in Zagreb, but the team reacted well it today. I was satisfied with our defence in the first half. We could lead some fast breaks and score some easy goals. We played well today, among others Petar Nenadic and Andreas Nilsson performed well today. There were 7 minutes in the second half when we were not that good, but then we regained our performance. I hope that Yahia's injury is not so serious, I wish him a speedy recovery. Good luck to Plock and Xavi for the derby against Kielce and, of course, in the future!
From inside the game
Marcel Sroczyk: We tried to give our best, but we could not make it totally. We have to improve a lot for the two upcoming games.
Petar Nenadic: We controlled the whole game, we were weaker only in some periods in the second half. We played a really good game, we reacted well to the last defeat against Zagreb. Hopefully Yahia’s injury is not serious.
Here are a few pics of the game
Gallery coming soon
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