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Both teams from Sicily earned
decisive wins in the first leg of the Euro Cup quarterfinals: Ortigia beat
title-holder Szolnok by five and Palermo downed Mladost in Zagreb by four. The
other two duels, both played in Spain, brought fantastic battles and ended in
draws.
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Quarter-finals, first leg
CC Ortigia (ITA) v Szolnoki Dozsa
(HUN) 9-4
HAVK Mladost Zagreb (CRO) v Telimar
Palermo (ITA) 7-11
Astralpool Sabadell (ESP) v RN Savona
(ITA) 13-13
CN Barcelona (ESP) v BVSC-Zuglo (HUN)
6-6
Second leg: 10 November
None of the four teams dropped from
the Champions League qualifications could win in the first leg. Two of them at
least could hold on for a tie but Szolnok and Mladost were beaten badly by
their respective Italian rivals.
The title-holder Hungarians faced
another humiliating defeat in a week: they lost by nine last Wednesday in the
CHL qualification play-offs to OSC at home – and now they went down against
Ortigia in a similar way, losing their edge in offence. The home side jumped to
a 3-1 lead, then Szolnok had a better spell as they shut out the Sicilians for
the entire second period – but after 3-2 they conceded four in a row and could
never recover after 7-2. Indeed, it was Ortigia’s turn to shut them out for
entire fourth period and this put them on the right track to reach the semis.
Fellow Sicilian side Palermo also
took the same path by claiming a hard-fought win in Zagreb. Just like Szolnok,
Mladost is also going through some serious rebuilding – and the process seems
to stand in an initial phase. The Croatian youngsters could keep up with their
rivals until 4-4, then conceded three in 1:49 minutes late in the second and
were unable to score in the third at all. After 5-9, they came back to 7-9 but
in the last 3:37 minutes Palermo could add two to claim a decisive away win.
The games in Catalonia were much more
thrilling. Sabadell rushed to a 5-1 lead against Savona but the Italians
managed to climb back to even in the second at 5-5. Soon the Italians went
ahead before the hosts levelled twice in the action-packed first half which saw
8 goals apiece. Sabadell retook the control in the third and went 10-8 up but
Savona needed only 70 seconds to equalise once more. The fourth was like a
roulette, the Spaniards hit first but the visitors rushed ahead twice later on,
then an action goal levelled the score 45 seconds from time and it did not
change till the end. No surprise, one may note: including the Champions League
second round tournament and the play-off matches, this was Savona’s 5 th draw
in its last 6 matches at the European stage.
An extraordinary clash closed the day
a few kilometres away in Barcelona. The home side showed some out-of-this-world
defending in the first half, shutting out BVSC in the first two quarters and
leading 2-0 in the middle break. The Hungarians needed 19:11 minutes to appear
on the scoreboard, but once they got there, they carried on and before the last
interval it stood 3-3. What’s more, the visitors jumped to a 4-6 lead with 2:52
to go in a tense, physical and extremely defensive battle where both
goalkeepers delivered some outstanding saves. BVSC even had a possession to go
three up, instead Barcelona found the way to come back and scored twice in the
last 47 seconds to save the game to a draw.
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