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European EURO CUP Quarter Finals 2nd Leg - PREVIEW

Exciting moments for the Hungarian teams

The outcome of two of the duels in the Quarter Finals has practically been settled – almost a miracle would be needed in Nice and in Kragujevac to turn the cards in the second leg matches. The other two encounters involving the two Hungarian participants should bring much more excitement.

The big match of the day will be held in Szolnok, where Hungary’s new top team will try to overcome the two-goal deficit against Florentia of . Szolnok, featuring Olympic Champions and a handful of quality foreign players from and Romania will do their utmost against the Italians. Florentia lost a rather tough league game against Brescia on Wednesday but they rely on their two top-class Spanish players, Molina and Español and they have a strong chance to prevail.

The other Hungarian side, Debrecen, will visit Moscow and they have a four-goal advantage over Dinamo. This seems a comfortable enough lead but the young Russian guns are ready for an upset. One of the keys of Debrecen’s success should be to have their Italian scoring machine in the water till the end of the match: in the first leg the Olympic silver medallist shooter was excluded with substitution in the third period.

Savona of Italy and Kragujevac of Serbia have virtually reached the semis in the first leg: Savona earned a seven-goal lead against Nice (FRA) while Kragujevac blew Mataro (ESP) away in Spain.

Euro Cup Quarter Finals 2nd Leg – Saturday, November 24th

19:00 Szolnoki Dozsa Kozgep (HUN) v. RN Florentia (ITA) – 1st Leg: 6-8

19:45 Dinamo Moscow (RUS) v. Debrecen (HUN) – 1st Leg: 9-13

20:00 Olympic Nice (FRA) v. RN Savona (ITA) – 1st Leg: 8-15

20:45 Radnicki Kragujevac (SRB) v. CN Mataro Quadis (ESP) – 1st Leg: 17-9

(23 November, 2012)