Showing posts with label Pro Recco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pro Recco. Show all posts

Monday, May 2, 2016

VK Partizan - Pro Recco 7:18 (Champions League, Round 9)

Mea culpa: I was fully convinced that the game against Galatasaray was the last one in the Champions League and we have only the Serbian domestic league to focus on. Well, that’s what they call epic fail.
This one was really the last one though.
On this video you can watch the introducing of both teams. You can see what a great applause the former Partizan-players, Dušan Mandić and Filip Filipović receive.


Pro Recco kept the game under control from the face-off. (Duško Pijetlović told after the match, he had expected a bit more resistance from the home team.) The Italian team was in a fantastic shape, they have already qualified to the Final 6, they have good chances to win the title, and this difference was visible on both teams.
Pro Recco immediately took the lead. Jakšić equalized (1:1).
Then nobody knows what happened. Maybe it’s better not to know what happened. Nevertheless the first half ended with 2:8. The Italians were scoring, one after the other, we could earn only one at the very end of the half, by Lukas Gilen.


In the third quarter Pro Recco quickly scored two more (2:10). Gilen threw one more for us (3:10) from power play. We could score a 4th goal as well, yet the guests were leading to 4:12 for the end of the third part. It was one hell of a struggle and there was one more quarter left.


In the fourth quarter we scored three goals, Pro Recco had 6. I think it was high time to end this match as well as this ordeal in Champions League this season.


Gilen and Jakšić scored 2-2 goals, the others (Subotić, Drašović, Asanović) earned 1-1.

A message to Dušan Mandić & co.: after all these please, be kind enough to smash everyone in the F6 down and bring home the silverware. Thanks.

End result of Group B (this time it's really the end result):
1. Pro Recco 22 points
2. Szolnok 21 points
3. Dubrovnik 19 points
4. OSC 9 points
5. Partizan 7 points
6. Galatasaray 1 point

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Pro Recco - VK Partizan 15:3 (Champions League, Round 2)

Dear fellow fans, I don’t even remember when was the last time we were defeated with such a difference.
By the way, again no channel broadcasted the game. Well, maybe it was for the better... But I owe a huge thank you and hats off to Pro Recco, who had a live score "broadcast" at their Facebook-page during the entire game, often making the text broadcast more exciting with short, few-seconds-long action-videos.

Average Fan’s finger got stuck on the F5 button.
I’d suggest this method to other teams. It doesn’t require any financial invest, just a bit of creativity. Videos can be recorded with any kind of smartphone and can easily be uploaded to Facebook (or to Vine or any other video sharing site with a link on Facebook). It can be especially effective with games that are not broadcasted by TV. Fans would surely highly appreciate it.

Pro Recco took the lead right after the starting whistle. At this point we equalized with Subotić’s goal (1:1), and then... then we ceased to be an opponent of equal level.
That’s the sad truth.
At 3:1 Vučinić scored, we finished the first quarter with 5:2.
In the half time the home team was leading to 6:2, as for us, watching one of these short videos, we missed out a penalty.
We earned our third (and last) goal in the 3rd quarter, soon before the end buzz, at 9:2 (!!!). Drašović was our goal scorer.
Then in the last quarter Italians brutally knocked us out. The partial result of the quarter was 6:0 (!!!).

That’s all, folks. We have to wait a bit for the league table, not all games are finished as of now.

Update: here's the league table. Current standing of Group B:
1. Pro Recco 6 points
2. Dubrovnik 6 points
3. Szolnok 6 points
4. OSC Budapest 0 point
5. Galatasaray 0 point
6. Partizan 0 point