Sleepy start, great going, we can go for 5th place!
The Hungarian women's national team defeated Greece 12-9 in the first division of the Paris Olympics, i.e. can go for fifth place on Saturday. We gave the opponent an advantage of roughly a quarter and a half, but then we got up to speed with dignity, and Rita Keszthelyi scored her 50th Olympic goal.
It was two days before the Hungarian women's to the national team to get over the disappointment that came over him after the quarter-final defeat against the Americans. The team of Attila Mihók and Sándor Cseh kept the three-time title defenders to five goals, which scored two of their goals (including the winner) from a double chance and had absolutely no complaints about the refereeing, somehow they always got the favorable blows in the decisive moments.
It is an eternal truth that the best team is the one that is able to re-motivate itself for the rest of the tournament. We have already proven that we can do this at this year's European Championship, although we faced weaker opponents there after losing the quarter-finals. >At the end of the first minute, we took the lead, Rebecca Parkes didn't go into the center, but instead fired from five meters, and that was accurate. The Greeks equalized from a double chance, and then we gave the ball away for the second time, but their turnover did not lead, because Alda Magyari caught the drop. There was drive and pace, man advantages as well, but accuracy and concentration were lacking on both sides, there were a lot of scattered balls. In the last minute, Eirini Ninou's long-range attempt was blocked, and we couldn't answer that, the Greeks went one after eight minutes.Nicoleta Eleftheriadou increased the difference from the man advantage, and even though we were idle we defended well , almost nothing was right in the front. At least they shot their chances - Vasiliki Plevritou also added his own - but we wasted more and more of these opportunities. The 5-on-4 was already converted into a goal by Vanda Vályi, and at the end of an escape she served Dorottya Szilágyi perfectly, who only had to pass the ball into the empty goal. In fact, Vályi then scored our fourth goal, with which we overtook the Greeks, the first half ended 4-4.
Vályi proved to be unstoppable in the continuation as well, scoring from a cross. , but again we couldn't enjoy the lead for long, because they threw two of the next two attacks to the Hellenes. Rita Keszthelyi made sure with a bomb that they didn't go away, then we broke a double man disadvantage, and then Keszthelyi played the same thing again, only from a free throw. They immediately equalized again, Garda Krisztina responded to this as well, we could wait for the last stage with an 8-7 lead.
Natasa Rybanska pulled in Vályi's many great passes from the wall, we went with two for the first time , and even with Garda's drunken rocket, it was already 10-7. With Keszthelyi's 50th Olympic goal, the scissors opened even bigger, the Greeks seemed to run out, and the blocks kept coming at the back. Keszthelyi also tried a long shot, which unfortunately hit the goalpost, while they closed to three from action. Our team captain cooled the mood with a perfectly executed five-meter shot, as the difference swelled to four again, and there were only two and a half minutes left. Of course, they didn't give up, after a time-out they took advantage of another manpower advantage, but from here on, all that was left was to run down the clock. The end result is a 12-9 Hungarian victory, after the first 12 minutes of the sleepy Moská, we got up to speed and won a well-deserved victory.
Final result, Olympics, women
5-8. for place
Greece-Hungary 9-12 (2-1, 2-3, 3-4, 2-4)
Hungarian goals: Keszthelyi 4, Vályi 3, Garda 2, Parkes, Rybanska, Szilágyi 1-1.
