MATCH REPORTS AND FIXTURES
Team pride despite defeat in León
[caption id="attachment_14124" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Photograph: sportleon.com[/caption] Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto have been very predictably positive this season. It does not matter who plays or who the opponent is: Milos's men may play better or worse, but they give very little away...
2017-02-26
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Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto have been very predictably positive this season. It does not matter who plays or who the opponent is: Milos's men may play better or worse, but they give very little away.
You go to the second-placed side's home, to a temple of Spanish handball such as León's Palacio de los Deportes, without Sorrentino, Tarrasó or Toni Alegre. You look at Nikola Milos's squad and find three 19-year-olds from the reserve team: Dorado, Sarió and Angel Lopez. You keep looking and find one player who had retired until January, Nebot, an excellent recall, and another, Sifre, who had not played for eight months until that same January. But this year, better than since Milos arrived, it does not matter who takes the court: they guarantee defensive solidity, control of the attacking play and a safe pair of hands in goal in the shape of the great David Bruixola.
Things being as they were, giants León had to suffer greatly to overcome this Fertiberia, and only the magic of maestro Juanin, the lashings from a future senior Spanish international such as Costoya, Biosca's good work and Vieyra's customary spell of top-class play managed to overcome the red-and-whites, who once again showcased their collective defensive game despite the absence of one of their leaders, Sorrentino, and with the lethal Inestrosa-Pozzer connection, eleven goals between them, which, although known to all the coaches, Guijosa was also unable to stop. What a season the Brazilian and the player from Ciudad Real are having—one to frame.
In short, a team to be proud of, and another high-level match with which Milos's boys delighted us despite their eventual defeat.
28 Abanca Ademar (15+13): Cupara (gk), Mario López (4), Vieyra (3), Simonet (4), Piñeiro, Costoya (6), Juanín (7) – starting seven – Biosca (reserve goalkeeper), Carou, Rodrigo, David Fernández (2), Leo Santos, Juanjo (1), Jaime (1), Huerta, Javi García.
25 BM Puerto Sagunto (13+12): Bruixola (gk), Moriñigo (4), Ángel Pérez (6), Pozzer (5), Nebot (2), Fernández, Spiljak (4) – starting seven – Moral (reserve goalkeeper), Dorado, Ruiz Casanova (2), Sifre (1), Linares (1), Sario, López
Scores at five-minute intervals: 1-2, 4-2, 8-5, 10-8, 14-10, 15-13 (half-time), 16-14, 18-16, 21-19, 23-21, 25-22, 28-25 (full-time).
Referees: García Mosquera and Muro San José. David Fernández, Piñeiro, Carou and Costoya were excluded for Abanca Ademar, and Nebot, Linares, Pozzer and Spiljak (2) for Puerto Sagunto.
Palacio de los Deportes de León. 2,000 spectators
Photograph: sportleon.com[/caption]
Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto have been very predictably positive this season. It does not matter who plays or who the opponent is: Milos's men may play better or worse, but they give very little away.
You go to the second-placed side's home, to a temple of Spanish handball such as León's Palacio de los Deportes, without Sorrentino, Tarrasó or Toni Alegre. You look at Nikola Milos's squad and find three 19-year-olds from the reserve team: Dorado, Sarió and Angel Lopez. You keep looking and find one player who had retired until January, Nebot, an excellent recall, and another, Sifre, who had not played for eight months until that same January. But this year, better than since Milos arrived, it does not matter who takes the court: they guarantee defensive solidity, control of the attacking play and a safe pair of hands in goal in the shape of the great David Bruixola.
Things being as they were, giants León had to suffer greatly to overcome this Fertiberia, and only the magic of maestro Juanin, the lashings from a future senior Spanish international such as Costoya, Biosca's good work and Vieyra's customary spell of top-class play managed to overcome the red-and-whites, who once again showcased their collective defensive game despite the absence of one of their leaders, Sorrentino, and with the lethal Inestrosa-Pozzer connection, eleven goals between them, which, although known to all the coaches, Guijosa was also unable to stop. What a season the Brazilian and the player from Ciudad Real are having—one to frame.
In short, a team to be proud of, and another high-level match with which Milos's boys delighted us despite their eventual defeat.
28 Abanca Ademar (15+13): Cupara (gk), Mario López (4), Vieyra (3), Simonet (4), Piñeiro, Costoya (6), Juanín (7) – starting seven – Biosca (reserve goalkeeper), Carou, Rodrigo, David Fernández (2), Leo Santos, Juanjo (1), Jaime (1), Huerta, Javi García.
25 BM Puerto Sagunto (13+12): Bruixola (gk), Moriñigo (4), Ángel Pérez (6), Pozzer (5), Nebot (2), Fernández, Spiljak (4) – starting seven – Moral (reserve goalkeeper), Dorado, Ruiz Casanova (2), Sifre (1), Linares (1), Sario, López
Scores at five-minute intervals: 1-2, 4-2, 8-5, 10-8, 14-10, 15-13 (half-time), 16-14, 18-16, 21-19, 23-21, 25-22, 28-25 (full-time).
Referees: García Mosquera and Muro San José. David Fernández, Piñeiro, Carou and Costoya were excluded for Abanca Ademar, and Nebot, Linares, Pozzer and Spiljak (2) for Puerto Sagunto.
Palacio de los Deportes de León. 2,000 spectatorsTranslation produced using artificial intelligence.