Filip Filipovic was the star of the first leg in the all-Hungarian Euro Cup final between Szolnok and OSC. The Serbian Olympic champion netted five goals, including the last two, which gave his side a three-goal advantage in a thrilling match.
Euro Cup, Final, 1st leg: Szolnoki
Dozsa (HUN) v OSC Budapest (HUN) 14-11 Return leg: 8 May
The first period produced an equal
battle, OSC was a bit more precise in front and led 2-3 after eight minutes.
The second brought a flood of action goals at the beginning, outside shots
caught the goalies by surprise, at this stage Viktor Nagy was struggling in
Szolnok’s goal and the visitor team jumped to a 5-7 lead by the middle of this
quarter.
But they could not maintain this
level in front, Nagy also managed to put his hand on a couple of shots and by
halftime it was even at 7-7. OSC’s problems continued in the third, they missed
five 6 on 5s, while Szolnok put away two and added one from action. In fact, after
5-7 Szolnok had a 5-1 run and OSC could score a lonely penalty goal in 12:53
minutes.
The Budapest based team seemed to get
into trouble in the fourth as Radomir Drasovic made it 11-8 but then Balazs
Erdelyi could halt OSC’s bad run and sent the ball home from a man-up. Just 67
seconds later Ferenc Salamon did the same and it looked much better from their
angle at 11-10. Soon both sides buried a respective 6 on 4 – it was a tough but
fair fight – for 12-11, however, the finish belonged to the hosts.
It was Filip Filipovic who stepped up
and netted a man-up with 1:57 to go, then blasted one more, his 5th, after a
blocked shot in a dying 6 on 5, 45 seconds from time. OSC had one last crucial
powerplay but the ball hit the post so the gap remained three goals. (The number
of saves was crucial: it stood 7-7 at half-time, like the score-line, and was
7-3 in the second half, to highlight one of the main differences this evening.)
Beating Szolnok by four (or at least
three) goals would be challenging even for the Champions League sides; add that
the team is still undefeated in this season in all competitions – so OSC faces
a mountain to climb in two weeks.
For detailed stats, play-by-play:
http://len.microplustiming.com/leneurocup/indexCL_web.php?cal=1
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