Hungarian champions MKB MVM Veszprem have as a part of SEHA GSS League's round 9 hosted Croatian champions - PPD Zagreb. Hungarians were even before the match big favorites and they have managed to show it on court winning confidently with 27:22 after and extraordinary second half.

In the first 30 minutes Zagreb was able to keep up with hosts playing great, especially in defence. Veszprem's starts were playing good but simply were not able to completely take control of the match. In the half time Hungarian team's coach Ortega has managed to explain to his players what they have to do in order to reach bigger goal difference and they did it. Defence was functioning great allowing Zagreb to score only 9 goals. Andreas Nilsson was on the other side of the court unstoppable scoring 9 goals from 9 shots being, along with Mirko Alilović who was remarkable with 16 saves one of Veszprem's best players. Current CL's best scorer Momir Ilić added 4 goals, just like Spanish winger Cristian Ugalde. Zagreb's best scorer was on the other side Luka Raković, who was replacing recently injured captain Horvat with 4 goals, Brozović, Stepančić and Obranović have added 3 each. Stevanović had 7 saves.

Before the match, one of Veszprem's youngest fans - little Benedek was given a jersey of his favourite club Veszprem as well as SEHA GSS League's shirt signed by all Veszprem's and Zagreb's players.

Veszprem will in the next round host Belarus Meshkov and Zagreb will, in 'Matchbox' play against Radnički.

Antonio Carlos Ortega, MKB MVM Veszprem's coach:

Congratulations to Zagreb, they've played a good game. We've today had a chance to play against a young team, wich is clearly becoming better with caoch Vujović. We've had a lot of problems today but I congratulate my players on giving everything they could and winning this match. I hope our injured players will recover soon and that we'll be able to count on them as soon as possible.

Andreas Nilsson, MKB MVM Veszprem's player:

It was my best game here so far. We did a very good job in defense against a good, young and fast team. I think it was the key to win this game.

Veselin Vujović, PPD Zagreb's coach:

Congratulations to Veszprém! We have a young team, and we need games like this to improve. For 20 minutes we've played a nice game, but later Veszprém changed into higher gear and we've had no solution. I am satisfied, even without four of our important players we've manage to reach a good result.

Lovro Šprem, PPD Zagreb's player:

We were playing really good against one of European's best teams in front of their outstanding fans. We have managed to show we can play even against more quality teams, we did not give up until the final whistle and it has brought us a good result.