The last, 14th round of the first half of the Hungarian Championship saw the clash between reigning and former European champion. Ferencvaros defeated Szolnok 11:10 and kept 1st position in Group A.
After the 14th round, the top four teams from each of the two groups advance to the group for the title (1st – 8th place). The rest of the teams will play in the relegation group (9th – 16th place).
The teams which qualified for the top 8 group are: Ferencvaros, Szolnok, Miskolc and UVSE (Group A), OSC, Eger, Honved (Group B). The 8th participant will be Szentes or BVSC. Szentes is in the 4th place in Group B, with a point more, but also with a match played more than BVSC.
Hungarian League 2019/20, Day 14
Group A
Ferencvaros – Szolnok 11:10 (1:2, 3:3, 4:4, 3:1)
Ferencvaros: Varga 5, Younger 2, Zalanki 1, Vamos 1, Fountoulis1 , Constantin-Bicari 1.
Szolnok: Drasovic 4, Szatmari 2, Pijetlovic 2, Jansik 1, V. Rasovic 1
Szeged – UVSE 8:14 (1:3, 2:4, 4:6, 1:1)
Szeged: Cs. Kiss 2, Foskolos 2, Zsigri 1, Palotas 1, Mekkel 1, Bogdanovic 1
UVSE: Korbacs 2, Korenyi 2, Dala 2, Vi. Vigvari 2, E. Molnar 2, Toth 1, Szieben 1, Vamosi 1, Ve. Vigvari 1.
Debrecen – Miskolc 5:15 (2:5, 1:3, 1:4, 1:3)
Debrecen: Kovacs 3, Fekete 1, Vancsik 1
Miskolc: A. Nagy 5, Manzi 4, Vadovics 2, Lorincz, Milicic 1, Misic 1, Krijestorac 1
PVSK -Tatabanya 8:6 (1:1, 3:3, 2:1, 1:1)
PVSK: Zerinvary 2, Csaba 2, Chilko 2, A. Csacsovszky 1, Rakonjac 1
Tatabanya: Katonas 2, Vad 1, Toth 1, Kalanovics 1, Galler 1
Szolnok was leading for most of the time of the match against Ferencvaros. Two minutes before the last break, Szolnok earned a 2-goal lead for the first time (8:6). Ferencvaros, guided by Denes Varga,started climbing back and earned a 10:9 advantage with 01:46 minutes to go. Radomir Drasovic equalized 68 seconds before the end (10:10), but Aaron Younger beat the buzzer. HE found the net in the last second of the match for Ferencvaros’ 11:10 victory.
Before the match, Ferencvaros’ captain Denes Varga, who was the best scorer with 5 goals, was given the Total Player Award, as the best player in the world in 2019.
UVSE convincingly defeated Szeged 14:8 and secured 4th place in the group.
1 Ferecvaros 14 – 42
2 Szolnok 14 – 36
3 Miskolc 14 – 28
4 UVSE 14 – 22
5 PVSK 14 – 20
6 Szeged 14 – 20
7 Debrecen 14 – 6
8 Tatabanya 14 – 3
Group B
Szentes – AVUS 12:6 (3:1, 2:1, 4:1, 3:3)
Szentes: Nagy M. 5, Somogyi 2, Voros 2, Matyok 1, Hegedus 1, Pellei 1
AVUS: P. Irmes 3, B. Szabo 1, Polovic 1, Ekler 1.
Vasas -Kaposvari 15:14 (3:3, 3:4, 3:2, 6:5)
Vasas:Rauscher 4, Miklos 4, H. Simon 3, Bencz 2, B. Kiss1, Torok 1
Kaposvari: Giga 4, Dobos 2, Biros B. 2, Mijic 2, Vindisch 1, Berta 1, Aksentijevic 1, Paunovic 1.
Honved -BVSC 7:6 (3:2, 2:1, 1:3, 1:0)
Honved: G. Kiss 2, Fulop 2, Kevi, G. Toth 1.
BVSC: Letay 2, Pasztor 2, Csapo 1, Kovacs1.
OSC – Eger postponed
The derby OSC – Eger is postponed until further notice, as well as the matches of the 13th round BVSC – OSC and Honved – Eger, because of the coronavirus.
Szentes defeated AVUS 12:6 and probably secured 4th place, since BVSC needs a miracle in the match against OSC to climb into 4th position.
1OSC 12 – 36
2 Eger 12 – 31
3 Honved 13 – 21
4 Szentes 14 -19
5 BVSC 13 – 18
6 Vasas 14 – 14
7 AVUS 14 -10
8 Kaposvari 14 – 7
