Hungary does not want to wake up from handball as Hungarian national team achieved huge succcess - The Hungarian national team achieved another huge feat at the European Handball Championship: István Gulyás's team played irresistible in the second group of the semi-finals, especially in the second half, defeating the unbeaten Slovenia by 29-28. The team is expected to place third in the group behind Norway and Slovenia in Tuesday's third round. Among other things, we asked the main characters about this.

Bánhidi Bence scored the best of the match, scoring 9 goals. "Even after the match against Iceland, I said we wouldn't change what we started, we'll keep doing the same thing.

This team became a second half specialist, as I see it, I don't know what's going on with us for those 30 minutes, but we can't seem to get tired. We plow the track and go out so they just can't stop us.

Hungarian national team achieved huge succcess

We are in for a victory of our greatest dream, which can now be fulfilled very easily. After such matches and feats, we have such confidence that we now have to take advantage of this opportunity, which, though we owe it to ourselves, does not know if it will ever happen again in our lives. We dare to dream big, I hope to see you in Stockholm.

In spite of receiving special attention from the Slovenian defenders, it closed with a 9/9 statistic, which is quite amazing.
I also felt like I was getting the care right, but luckily the guys were able to take advantage, I got great balls, without them I wouldn't be anywhere, so not only me, the team deserves praise. I really have a hard time saying what, because when we traveled to this European Championship, I didn't think for a second that we could even get a chance from the group, and now, as I said just now, we are at the gate of great success.

Patrik Ligetvári, the other Hungarian hero of the match, also said what to do with that particular goal.

"Not that you should step in, you have to be fired at full strength. Once we've got this far, we can't get close to a huge success. As for this Slovenian game, it was exactly as we had anticipated - in the first half. they came to us, but we kept ourselves within range and then, in the second leg, we almost left them and reversed. We wanted this win better. I went up.

How much did this team want to show themselves and Patrik Ligetvári personally to Ljubomir Vranjes?

Everyone must have had a little extra proof, of course, to see how much I had improved. I think you could see that a lot.

Mátyás Győri also highlighted his excellent second half performance.

"We tried to play confidently in the first half, but it seems like the second part of the game is our specialty. Nevertheless, in this match, as in previous group matches, we won the match with our heart. It was similar to the situation against Iceland, this time around, it was all about doing what's good. The professional staff told me how much they trust us, and if we continue like this, we'll stay calm and play a little bit more accurately, and thank you to God. they were right again. "

The right-hander Máthé Dominik also confirmed his teammate's words.
We trusted each other all the time, not giving up for a minute, even when the Slovenians might have played a little better than us. We had three goals in the break, but by then the scenario against Iceland had come to my mind, fortunately we had copied that performance. Huge forces had to be mobilized for it, but it was worth it! "

What was the key?

Roli Mikler's feats were essential at the gate, Patrik Ligetvári's hands were thrown at least three or four times in a row, and Bence Bánhidi brought his usual extra-class performance.

With this success, not only the qualifying for the Olympic qualifier, but also the semi-finals were within reach.
It's almost even amazing to say. This semi-final is already a huge bonus for us, and we don't even think about playing for the Olympics, or even here in the Eb to reach the finals. It's a dream we don't want to wake up from. But first we need to focus on the match against the Swedes, we will have some advantage in playing after us so we can relax a bit more and at this stage of the tournament it can be 1-2 extra hours.

We were first asked by the federal captain, István Gulyás, how surprised the Slovenians were to "ice up" Szeged manager Dean Bombacs for almost the entire match. "Not at all. We were expecting that he wasn't going to play much - although we sprinkled a few places on how prepared we were. We also expected to put a lot of pressure on us, so it was important not to let them down. The three-goal disadvantage during the break it was all right because we were almost sure they would get tired.
The downside to this is that when you are full of handball players in the frame top clubs, you can feel that our young team is much more capable of the match than the rivals. This is mainly due to our dominance in the second half - plus a great defense and effective offensive play. "

Result, Semifinal, Round 2, II. Group: Hungary-Slovenia 29-28 (13-16)
shots / goals 43/29 and 44/28 respectively
Goals from seven meters: 1/1 and 3/2, respectively
exhibitions: 10 and 10 minutes, respectively

Hungary: Mikler - Hornyák, Szita 1, Bánhidi 9, Győri 3, Balogh Zs. 2, Bóka 1, exchanges: Ligetvári 6, Sipos, Rosta 2, Székely, Fekete, Máthé 2, Nagy B. 3