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Saturday was national celebration in Hungary as well as tough games in Euro League and LEN Cup. Vasas made it to Best 8 in Euro League, while Eger will play final in LEN Cup.
Honved-Vasas 5:6 (1:2, 0:2, 2:1, 2:1)
Referees: Margeta (SLO), Gómez (ITA)
Honved: M. Szivos 3, R. Fodor 1, O. Kovacs 1,
Vasas: Denes Varga 1, Daniel Varga 1, A. Steinmetz 1, M. Toth 3
Man-ups: 14/4, 11/2
Excluded with 3 personal faults: B. Szekely (24.min.), M. Gor-Nagy (25.min.)
Margeta and Gómez are considered as best referees in waterpolo... but you hardly saw yesterday why. They divided the work: Margeta whistled contrafaults, Gómez exclusions... almost in every attacks/defense.
Yeah, they are games when everything works or nothing at all... This is what happened with Honved. Nothing worked... top scorers (Gergely Kiss, Tamas Molnar) hit the goalpost or the block all the time. And Honved defense didn't help much for Istvan Gergely. No matter Honved got the several man-ups, they simply couldn't execute them. It was only Marton Szivos who tried to drag the team, but he was so few with team-mates not supporting him. I'm happy for Oliver Kovacs, who scored a beauty from "not-exactly-his-post" and "not-exactly-from-his-distance".
On the other hand - well, Vasas wasn't any better... just luckier. Now, that finally Daniel Varga played (meowing and complaining was a bit too much of him lately) in a big game. Although he rather acted as a Lone Ranger, who wanted to be a hero by nonstop shooting and scoring only once. His brother, Denes was like his weak shadow. Only Marton Toth manage to drag his team with his scores in the EL Quarter Finals. Vasas still played their tough defense, with pushing Honved players to half-pool, nice blockings from field players, but altogether, they were just more confident in scoring and defense than Honved.
SUMM: Honved's play wouldn't had been enough in upcoming EL games... And Vasas... well in the season so far they we tere more than rhapsodic... And I have strong doubts they will make it to F4.
Eger-Budvanska Rivijera Budva 11:7 (3:1,3:1,2:2,3:3)
Referees: Caputi (ITA), Tomic (CRO)
Eger: Csaba Kiss 1, G. Hegedus 1, P. Biros 3, B. Nyeki 2, Sz. Binder 1, Zs, Varga II. 3
Budva: Ciric 2 (1/0), Aojagi Kan 1, Milanovic 1, Trajkovic 3
Man-ups: 13/6, 11/2
Penalty: 0, 1/0
Excluded: Varga II. (31.min.), Vukic (25.min.), Miller (30.min.)
Excluded with subsitution: Nikolic and Sefik (32.min.)
No one expected an easy game since the one played in Budva. But everybody expected that now referees won't support Budva that much.
Actually Eger made it clear from the very start... after the scores of Csaba Kiss, Zsolt Varga II and Peter Biros... everybody had the feeling that Budva will run after the result... and practically they did.
And as Budva couldn't do much with that, they acted tough... including their fans starting a brawl among spectators, make police get involved and stop the game for at least 15 min.
Even this intermezzo couldn't stop Eger... they went on, increasing their lead and made it to the Final.
As Veselin Duho, coach of Budva quoted: "Eger deserved to win and make it to the final"... Well, you can't add more into it.
Eger will meet Chehov in final.
Interesting news: After arriving to Eger, Ciric was interrogated by District Attorneys as a legal process is in progress against him after his unnecessary hard brawl against Gabor Hegedus (causing fractures on his face). The charge is: serious assault and battery.
No matter how the trial process will end... supporters of Eger will never forget... Ciric was catcalled during the introduction of teams.
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