European water polo victories men | Zaanse women prepare for quarterfinals
Bilal Gbadamassi won Wednesday evening with Champions League title favorite Novi Beograd 8-15 against Steaua Bucharest. While the home game (11-7) was exciting until the last period, the team of the Dutch international dominated all periods of the fourth group stage match. They ended the second period with a four-goal difference and relatively easily poloed to victory. Gbadamassi qualified undefeated for the quarterfinals after four wins. View the statistics through this link. Next week Gbadamassi will play against the Romanian team Oradea.
Barcelona players Mart van der Weijden and Kas te Riele won at home yesterday 13-10 against Panathinaikos. Thanks to two goals from Van der Weijden, including 2-1 and 7-5, the Spaniards are still undefeated after four group stage matches in Group D. They secured a spot in the Euro Cup quarterfinals. Check out the statistics on this page. The Dutch internationals will travel next week to Serbia for a match against Sabac Elixer in the fifth Euro Cup group match.
In the same group, Benjamin Hessels, despite his 7-6, lost with the Hungarian Honved 10-12 to Elixer. Sebastian Hessels did not play. Honved took a 3-0 lead although Hessels' team could not recover from the two-goal difference in the last period.
On December 5, Barcelona and Honved will face each other in the last Euro Cup group match.
Quarterfinal Euro Cup ZV De Zaan
The women of ZV De Zaan travel today to Athens, Greece for the first quarterfinal match against Greek Panionios. The bronze medalist of the previous season in the Euro Cup won 7-14 against the upcoming opponent in early October during the Champions League qualification tournament and became the group winner in the Euro Cup by winning all four group stage matches at the end of October.
The quarterfinal will be played over two legs. The team coached by Mick van den Bree will play the return match on November 30. The European home matches of De Zaan are played at the Sloterparkbad in Amsterdam.
If successful against Panionios, a semifinal match against the winner of Ethnikos and Glyfada will follow. The semi-finals will be played in January and February 2025, and the final matches will be in March and April 2025.
