We held the Americans to five goals, but it wasn't enough either

The 2008- Since the finals of the 2018 Beijing Olympics, Team USA has lost only two matches in the five-ring games: this year to the Spaniards, and in 2021 we were able to defeat them in the group stage. Since then, we have met them several times, it is enough to mention the finals of the 2022 or this year's World Cup, which the Americans won, but we won the last warm-up match, barely a month ago, 10-8, and also away from home, in Berkeley, California -in. 

In the World Cup final in Doha, we started with 0–3, just a month ago we started with 3–0, but now neither side could get off to a flying start, the first half of the quarter ended without a goal. The ice-breaker was delivered by Garda Krisztina with a long shot sneaking into the bottom left, which was miscalculated by Ashleigh Johnson, who had been defending brilliantly until then. We did a perfect job at the back until we let Maggie Steffens get too close, in return after a double counter, Rebecca Parkes played Dóra Leimeter, who turned beautifully off her man and checked Johnson from close range. We took back the lead, while Alda Magyari started to warm up, we didn't score any more goals until the end of the quarter. 

More than four minutes passed when the overseas players equalized from the wall, and while we shot our own, they took the lead with another close goal. Unfortunately, we were unable to score in the entire half, we really didn't like the suffocating, close man-handling of the Americans.

Parkes scored a goal at the very beginning of the third period, but we couldn't use that either, but from the following defense we were able to swim, Kamilla Faragó served well in front of Rita Keszthelyi, who shot the jump confidently. But it didn't last long, Steffens sold the new American advantage, and finally we did the same, Faragó, who was up to four in Berkeley, let off a goal post bomb. There was a huge fight in the pool, we were clearly equal opponents of the three-time defending champion, and it even seemed that the first place was mainly due to Johnson.

Of course, Magyari also kept up with him, he also started the fourth quarter with two feats, while up front Keszthelyi tested the hardness of the goal post for the fourth time. Sometimes the bar helped us, but not when the Americans got the referee's tailwind. They were only able to move from 4 with a double chance (the first of which was the minimum opinion), we only got a single, but unfortunately we didn't go anywhere with it. In the last minute, they were able to attack for 6-4, while Sándor Cseh received a red card, and after many good defenses, Attila Mihók asked for time. Magyari also swam up to attack, but Faragó unfortunately hit him, and the remaining seconds were run out by the Americans.

We can feel a lot of missing, especially because of what happened in the last quarter. We held the best team in the world to five goals, but even that was not enough, we did not reach the top four, the 5th-8th. and for places we will play Greece first on Thursday.

Final result, Olympics, women
Quarterfinals
Hungary-United States of America 4-5 (2-1, 0-2, 2-1, 0-1)
Hungarian goals:Faragó , Garda, Keszthelyi, Leimeter