The Montenegrin League has continued today. Jadran Herceg Novi demolished Budva 14:5 in the postponed match of Day 4
The competition formula has been changed. It was planned that the regular season consists of 12 rounds (a quadruple round-robin system). But, the Federation decided to shorten the season because of the national team’s packed calendar. The league will be ended with the 6th round. After that, all four teams will advance to the playoffs.
Most of the matches of the regular season have already been played. Only two games are remaining, Cattaro- Jadran, and Jadran-Primorac. These games were postponed, as well as the encounter between Budva and Jadran because rounds 4 – 6 were played in the second half of December, at the time when Jadran competed in the Champions League.
2020/21 Montenegrin League, Day 4
Jadran HN – Budva 14:5 (5:0, 4:1, 3:1, 2:3)
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Jadran didn’t start the Montenegrin league as expected. The reigning champion suffered two losses in the first three rounds (to Budva – 8:9 and Primorac – 12:14) early in December.
But, the Herceg Novi team got off to a flying start in the second half of the league.
Playing with recovered Djuro Radovic, who was out of the team for a while, due to the injury, Jadran blew away Budva.
The hosts rushed to an 8:0 lead in the first 12 minutes, and never looked back. Budva its first goal scored in the 12th minute, but after a fantastic opening of the match, only the margin of Jadran’s victory was in question. Djuro Radovic was the best scorer with four goals, Konstantin Averka, Vasilije Radovic and Jake Muscat added two each. Jadran goalie Petar Tesanovic posted 13 saves in the first three quarters.
1 Primorac 5 – 15
2 Budva 6 – 9
3 Jadran 4 – 6
4 Cattaro 5 – 0
Remaining league matches
Cattaro – Jadran HN (March 30, 18:00) – follow live
Jadran HN – Primorac (April 3, 18:00) – follow live
Live score and statistics you can follow on our TOTAL WATERPOLO ARENA
2020/21 Serbian League, Day 14
Banjica – Sabac 2:21 (1:3, 0:7, 0:4, 1:7)
Crvena Zvezda – Zemun 13:8 (2:1, 4:3, 3:3, 4:1)
Novi Beograd – Nais 17:5 (3:1, 2:1, 6:2, 6:1)
Stari Grad – Vojvodina 6:8 (1:2, 1:3, 1:2, 3:1)
KVK Radnicki – Partizan postponed
The league leader Radnicki achieved a historic success in Zagreb last weekend, by winning the Regional League. At the same time, most of the games of the 14th round of the Serbian League were played.
There were no surprises. Crvena Zvezda needed some time to break Zemun’s resistance, but the Serbian Cup winner, led by Ivan Basara (4 goals), and Gavril Subotic (3), recorded a comfortable win.
Vojvodina, which beat Novi Beograd in the previous round, defeated Stari Grad by two goals (8:6). Still, there was no drama in this match. Vojvodina earned an 8:3 lead early in the fourth period and secured the three points
The reigning champion Sabac was too strong for Banjica, while Novi Beograd convincingly defeated Nais, after a slow start.
1 Radnicki 13 – 36
2 Novi Beograd 14 – 34
3 Crvena Zvezda 14 – 34
4 Sabac 14 – 30
5 Vojvodina 14 – 24
6 Partizan 13 – 18
7 Zemun 14 – 13
8 Nais 14 – 11
9 Stari Grad 14 – 2
10 Banjica 14 – 1
2020/21 Croatian League, Day 13
Group II (7th-11th place)
Medvescak – POSK 10:9 (2:3, 2:3, 4:2, 2:1)
Medvescak defeated POSK narrowly in the postponed match of the group for places 7th-11th.
7 Medvescak 12 – 15
8 KPK 12 – 10
9 Galeb 12 – 10
10 POSK 11 – 9
11 Zadar 13 – 0
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