Day 10, Group A – Jadran Split (CRO) v NC Vouliagmeni (GRE) 10-10 Three weeks ago, Jadran completed the first part of their masterplan on reaching the Final Eight as they could win in Kragujevac. This is what their new coach Jurej Mateja emphasised earlier in the season: despite a couple of defeats, he insisted …
Day 10, Group A – Zodiac CNA Barceloneta (ESP) v Olympiacos Piraeus (GRE) 10-5 Beating Recco in Italy and downing Olympiacos by five goals within three weeks is a feat any team would be proud of. Barceloneta have just achieved that, and this seems to secure them the pole position in the race to the …
Barceloneta didn’t leave much chance for Olympiacos in the big game of Day 10, the Spaniards outclassed their Greek rival with a magnificent second-half performance and after their 5-goal win it’s hard to see them losing the top spot. In the other super-hot battle Vouliagmeni came back from two goals down in the fourth to …
Barceloneta blow away Olympiacos in the second half Read More »
Day 10, Group B – Pro Recco (ITA) v Waspo 98 Hannover (GER) 21-4 Recco and Hannover have never been in the same weight-category – since Waspo entered the league, the Italians beat them 8 out of 8 times –, but the difference between the teams’ qualities have never been so painfully visible then this …
Day 10, Group A – Dinamo Tbilisi (GEO) v Radnicki Kragujevac (SRB) 13-8 Radnicki’s away games miseries continued in Tbilisi (fourth loss beside one draw) as Dinamo came up with their best performance of the season to claim a second win in a row. The Serbs’ vanishing hopes to make the Final 8 practically ended …
After a series of single- or two-goal wins, Ferencvaros finally offered a game for their die-hard fans where the supporters didn’t have to get too excited in the fourth period as the three points were already in the bag. Still, it wasn’t an easy game for the 2019 champions as Spandau caused them some headaches …
Day 10, Group B – FTC-Telekom Budapest (HUN) v Spandau 04 Berlin (GER) 12-8 Read More »
Day 10, Group B – Astralpool Sabadell (ESP) v Jug Adriatic Osiguranje Dubrovnik (CRO) 15-12 Jug’s miseries seemed to have been over three weeks ago as they bounced back with a fine win over OSC, to leave a rather bad spell behind. However, it turned out that the Croats still have problems – the national …
Sabadell’s 6-goal storm in the fourth delivers another blow to Jug Read More »
Day 10, Group B – Novi Beograd (SRB) v CN Marseille (FRA) 11-4 The French could taste the sweetness of victory in the last round once more as they had beaten Sabadell. But to stage a big last surge to make the cut they should have pulled off a miracle in Belgrade, in the pool …
Marseille hold on till 4-3, then NBG come up with a 7-1 rush Read More »
Day 10, Group B – Genesys-OSC Budapest (HUN) v AN Brescia (ITA) 14-14 Not surprisingly, Brescia had a better start, after 1-1, they staged a 0-3 run, hammered two from the perimeter while they killed a series of man-downs. Two fast goals, in 28 seconds, deep into the second period gave them a 2-6 lead …
OSC halt Brescia’s winning streak with a 5-1 run in the fourth Read More »
With four rounds to go, Brescia and Ferencvaros are confirmed as Final Eight participants, in the company of host Novi Beograd. At the same time, the Serbs are now the new leader in Group B as they beat Marseille with ease, while Brescia’s winning streak was halted by OSC which produced a brilliant 5-1 comeback …
Novi Beograd take the lead as Brescia blow away a 4-goal lead Read More »
