Machine-translated from Hungarian.
Alongside the EUHL final, the Andersen League final also got underway this week, with our team taking on Goodwill Pharma Stilaxx Szeged, who won the regular season. In this best-of-three series, Szeged have home advantage, so we began the tie away from home on Saturday.
The first period got off to a great start; the home side were only able to ‘respond’ once to Benedek Madácsi’s brace and Dániel Csölle’s goal, so we went into the break with a two-goal lead. The second period, however, was not our 20 minutes; we often left the Szeged team in clear-cut scoring positions, and they managed to capitalise on this twice, meaning we went into the final period with the score level. Neither team really managed to find a way through the other’s defence, with the exception of Benedek Madácsi, who took his goal tally to a hat-trick and – as it later turned out – scored the winning goal. Towards the end, Goodwill Pharma Stilaxx Szeged put our goal under immense pressure, but thanks in part to Nándor Róth’s brilliant saves, we managed to hold on and win the first match of the tie 4–3! **The record crowd in Szeged were treated to a thrilling, high-calibre match worthy of a final, and our team once again showed great resilience in overcoming our opponents’ home advantage. The tie continues on Friday the 11th at 6.30 pm at the Győr University Ice Sports Centre.
Before that, on Monday and Tuesday (4–8 July), the EUHL final continues on home ice, where, to everyone’s great surprise, we are level at 1–1 against the defending champions, UMB from Banská Bystrica. **
Come on, UNI GYŐR ETO!
Goodwill Pharma Stilaxx Szeged vs UNI GYŐR ETO HC: 3 – 4(AL114) Goal scorers: **#19 Dániel Csölle, #18 Benedek Madácsi (3) (UNI GYŐR ETO) **#18 Zorin, #17 Balogh, #11 Kambulov (Szeged)
Photo: Csaba Karnok
Fotó: Karnok Csaba