Machine-translated from Hungarian.
2024 got off to a really good start for us, as we were victorious in all three of our away matches in the Andersen League. That’s why we were looking forward with great anticipation to our first home match, where we hosted Goodwill Pharma Szeged on Wednesday evening at the Győr Ice Sports Centre.
The match got off to a positive start, with Benedek Madácsi scoring after barely three minutes; at that point, we were still hopeful that we were witnessing the first part of a process. Unfortunately, this was not the case; although we had nearly twice as many shots on goal as our opponents in the first period, they were still better at capitalising on their chances. First Biakin, then Danilov found the back of the Győr net, so we went into the break one goal down.
We stepped up a gear in the second period, but so did Szeged; in the fifth minute, following an unfortunate collision, Bence Makovics received a 5+20-minute penalty, and the opposing player, Zalán Ujj, had to receive medical attention; he was later taken to hospital for observation. As it turned out, this was the key moment of the match; Szeged scored two goals during the five-minute penalty (Jakab and Balogh), thereby extending their lead to three. Later, they managed to launch a successful counter-attack even whilst a man down (Morvay), which really set the tone for the final period.
We came out with great momentum for the final period, but another ‘blow’ came very quickly: Biakin found the net again less than a minute after the face-off. We gradually began to break down our opponents’ play, first through Márk Vas, then Richárd Horváth finding the back of the visitors’ net for the first time in a long while, but just as we’d found our rhythm, we were halted once more as Morvay also managed to score twice. We threw everything we had at them in the final minutes, but the deficit was too great; we could only manage consolation goals from Norbert Lévai and Dániel Csölle.
This isn’t what we were hoping for from our first home match, but we need to pick ourselves up and carry on. On the 31st, we’ll be hosting Nitra in an EUHL match.
Come on, UNI GYŐR ETO!
UNI GYŐR ETO HC vs Goodwill Pharma Szeged: 5 – 7 (AL85) Goal scorers: **#18 Benedek Madácsi, #9 Márk Vas, #11 Richárd Horváth, #Norbert Lévai, #19 Dániel Csölle (UNI GYŐR ETO) #69 Biakin (2), #36 Danilov, #46 Jakab, #17 Balogh, #18 Morvay (2) (Szeged)
We’ve put together a selection of the best photos from the match in our gallery:
Photo: Dr Krisztina Németh-Csigai
Fotó: Dr. Németh-Csigai Krisztina