Machine-translated from Hungarian.
This season, we’ve only managed to play one period. Our away match in Algyő had to be abandoned due to the ice being unplayable (rescheduled for 2 November). That match didn’t get off to a good start for our team, so we were looking forward to Wednesday evening’s fixture with great determination. Unfortunately, several of our more experienced players were unable to take to the ice due to illness, so the responsibility fell on the younger players.
Fortunately, we showed straight away that we were a match for Szeged – a side featuring several former Erste Liga players – with Martin Sipák putting us ahead with a superb shot in the 5th minute. Two minutes later, Dániel Taródi produced a brilliant solo run to double our lead. In the second half of the period, Márk Nagy also found the net, but with a minute and a half to go before the break, Csiki pulled one back, meaning we went into the second period with ‘just’ a two-goal lead.
Right from the start of the second period, we showed that we hadn’t run out of steam; not even a minute had passed before Márk Koczkás added his name to today’s list of goalscorers. In this period, we lost the rhythm of the game a little; we often fell into the opposition’s style of play, and although Norbert Lévai had extended our lead to 4–0 in the 32nd minute, two quick goals (Szabó, Csiki), the visitors ‘fought their way back’ into the match.
In the final third, we got back to playing our own game, which quickly saw us seal the match: first, Taródi and Nagy both scored their second goals of the match, and then Filipp Nesterov sealed the final score 10 minutes before the final whistle. We must give special mention to the performance of our young goalkeeper, Ákos Mészáros, whose superb saves kept our team in the lead throughout.
Unfortunately, a few minutes before the end, an extremely unsportsmanlike incident disrupted the match: the visitors’ player, Ádám Garbacz, first committed a foul (pushing an opponent into the boards), then struck one of our players, who was skating towards the bench, on the head from behind with his stick; after that, despite the referees’ intervention, he instigated a brawl with the entire Győr bench.
Despite the incident, the enthusiastic crowd were treated to a brilliant match, in which the young players proved their mettle! Come on, UNI GYŐR ETO!
UNI GYŐR ETO HC vs Goodwill Pharma Szeged: 8 – 3(AL67) Goal scorers: **#7 Martin Sipák, #10 Dániel Taródi (2), #18 Márk Nagy (2), #3 Márk Koczkás, #15 Norbert Lévai, #9 Filipp Nesterov (UNI GYŐR ETO) #42 Csiki (2), #3 Szabó (Szeged)
We’ve put together a selection of the best photos from the match in our gallery:
Photographs by Dr Krisztina Németh-Csigai: