OSC - VK Partizan 10:8 (Champions League, Round 7)

Not funny at all, believe me.
Even if this time the commentator was a relatively normal one

at least concerning water polo and regular pronunciation of Serbian names
okay, he constantly said "Vičo" instead of Vico, but at least he pronounced "Rističević" and "Subotić" correctly
yes, I’m a grammar nazi, so what?

named István Hajdú B. And even if one could hear the enthusiastic chanting and shouting of 3 (three) Grave Diggers from Nyéki Imre Pool through the TV and the constant murmuring of the commentator.

Greetings and respect to these three Partizan-fans. They were so great that even the commentator talked about them with appreciation.

 Rističević before the game

I have mostly screenshots, because all Hungarian media are a bunch of garbage, mentioning this game only "in brief"-style. The only exception was Nemzeti Sport Online.

The beginning was like a dream. Rističević had great saves, Gogov scored our first goal in the 3rd minute (0:1), approx. a minute later Partizan got a penalty. Subotić shot and scored (0:2).
Here came OSC’s first goal (1:2). Subotić scored another goal in the 5th minute (1:3). We dominated, everything looked fantastic.
OSC just had to get a penalty 6 seconds before the buzz.
The first quarter ended with 2:3.
Then came the second quarter and Drašović’s goal in the 4th minute (2:4). Afterwards OSC took advantage of a power play (3:4).
Then they equalized (4:4) even though Rističević had such saves that even the Hungarian commentator was amazed. While we were struggling. If it was not the goalpost or the crossbar we hit, then the goalkeeper saved our attempts. 4:4 was the half-time result, but at this point it already looked less and less happy.

Lukas Gilen

In the third quarter OSC took the lead in the beginning (5:4). We equalized from a penalty (5:5, Subotić), but the home team took the lead back soon (6:5). No problem, now Gilen scored the equalizing goal (6:6). But OSC just didn’t want to stop (7:6).
8:6.
Vladimir Vujasinović asked for time-out and it could be heard through the TV that he yells off everyone separately as well as the entire team.
I’m sure he was totally right.

Players wilting down

It didn’t use much. OSC dominated more and more, we made mistakes that was painful to see, and the cold shower was the home team scoring their 9th goal only 1 (one!!!) second before the buzz.
The last quarter was about hitting the goalposts and the crossbar. Really. I don’t know why it is so that we kill the wooden goal pieces. If water polo was played for goalpost/crossbar-hitting instead of goals, we would have won this game with flying marks.
Instead we had a penalty (9:7, Subotić) and Jakšić’s great goal at the end (9:8).
And the coup de grace just before the end buzz. 10:8

(photo: nemzetisport.hu)

Current standing of Group B:
1. Pro Recco 16 points
2. Dubrovnik 16 points
3. Szolnok 15 points
4. OSC 9 points
5. Partizan 6 points
6. Galatasaray 0 point

VK Partizan - OSC Budapest 5:4 (Champions League, Round 4)

What a game it was.
Hungarian opponent, Hungarian broadcast, Hungarian TV-presenter broke the remains of my nerves to pieces (the football game in the afternoon killed most of my nerve cells, I had only one nerve fibre left - I don't know who was the presenter tonight, Dániel Mezei or Gábor P. Fülöp, it doesn't really matter, but whomever it was, he was dancing on that one remaining line of my nerve cells - and he was paid for this, with tax payers' money, you get what I mean).

By the way, there was surely something in the air. My net connection was on the verge of death all day long, it still is even now, as I'm typing this blogpost. Then the TV broadcast died, too, not just once. Either the screen blacked out or the broadcast was lagging. This goddamned state-owned sports channel was made from 80 billion HUF (253 million euros), 80 billion crispy, state-owned HUF. And that's all you can bring out of it. Congratulations.
Other than this, I'd kindly like to ask all those in charge: what the hell do you think who'll be interested in the pathetic failure of the Hungarian female handball team on the world cup right before a water polo match? Who on earth would be interested in the 623rd whining and complaining about how it should have been done? Who?...
Go to hell, all of you, together with your 80 bn TV channel.

All right. Cut. Banjica swimming pool, at long last. The boys splash into the water, Rističević immediately had a great save.

The Hungarian presenter should very quickly find himself a good speech/language therapist, because he continuously misspelled the Serbian players’ names. That’s one thing he called Rističević first as "Čičević" (where the heck did that come from?...), but even for the rest of the game he called Partizan’s goalkeeper "rishtishevich" (I wrote it with English spelling, so it might be easy for all of you to see). Subotić was his other victim, he called the top goal scorer either "shubotich" or "subotits". Facepalm. Facepalm. Facepalm.

We had a counter-attack, Asanović shot, Bisztritsányi saved.

Had Bisztritsányi not been the goalkeeper of OSC, we would have won over them with more than 10 goals for sure. I very much hope the entire team bowed down for him after the match.

But Rističević was again the MVP of the game. He quickly saved a shot, then our defense line blocked another and we could swim up for a counter-attack. Gogov got the ball, he shot and scored Partizan’s first goal. 1:0, at almost the half of the quarter.
At the very end Decker scored from power play - between these two goals we hit the goalposts and the crossbar countless times, while Partizan’s defense (including of course Rističević) did a top quality job.
In the second quarter OSC got into power play, but Rističević shut down the shutters, hanged out the "Closed" sign and saved the attempts of the opponent. Not just this one, but all of them in this quarter as well as in the next one, no matter if OSC happened to be in power play or not. We made a counter-attack, Stojanović got the ball, shot and scored. 2:1
What is more, Jakšić immediately scored another! 3:1!!!
The only happening left for the first half was that Jakšić wanted to just drop the ball with a delicate movement into OSC’s net, but someone from the opponent literally stole the ball off from his hand. At the very end, only 2 seconds were left, when Rističević threw the ball and almost scored a goal.
In the third quarter Rističević presented the trick of "saving a shot from 1 cm".

I almost got a cardial arrest. First from the attack itself, then as Partizan's goalkeeper saved, a big load rolled off my mind (and heart). All glories to Dimitrije Rističević.

Partizan counter-attack, and Stojanović scored from an amazing, impossible cannon shot. He was just swinging and swinging the ball, then BANG, and 4:1!!!
OSC tried with full-pool press, with no success, while we kept on hitting the goalpost/crossbar.
Then came the last quarter. OSC picked themselves together. They scored a goal (after 2 quarters...), then almost immediately another one. 4:3 Meanwhile they desperately attacked, just they forgot about Gilen, who scored a huge goal from power play. 5:3
Rističević... Rističević came from another planet.

(photo: mozzartsport.com)

At the end OSC pushed one more goal into our net (5:4). They visibly wanted to earn at least a draw - well, guys, I have bad news for you. It should have come to your mind earlier than the last quarter.

(photo: waterpolopartizan.rs)

Oh, and the final punch line.
End of the match, Hungarian TV-presenter says with a bit of shocked voice: "Partizan-players looked at Vujasinović as if he was God."
BECAUSE THIS IS PARTIZAN!!!

Current standing of Group B:
1. Pro Recco 12 points
2. Szolnok 9 points
3. Dubrovnik 9 points
4. Partizan 6 points
5. OSC 0 point
6. Galatasaray 0 point