Alser BM Puerto Sagunto play in Logroño with no time to look back

This Tuesday, at 20:45, Naturhouse La Rioja await the red-and-whites in Logroño, having travelled on Monday morning after playing against the team in third place on Sunday night. Alser already knew the ASOBAL schedule was crazy when they submitted their credentials in the best league. But playing a match without even forty-eight hours having passed since the previous one borders on the most basic theory of athletic recovery for elite athletes. But that is this league: a genuine circus at the disposal of the teams competing in European competitions and the television broadcasters that this blessed sport needs so badly. The red-and-white squad includes one change from the selection against Reale: youth goalkeeper Samuel Ibáñez is in the team, owing to David Bruixola’s professional commitments. He joins the familiar injury absentees Muiña, Lapcevic and Latorre. Although defeated at the Ovni, this is an opponent that has improved its performances in recent times and based its strength in the ASOBAL League on the usually impregnable Palacio de los Deportes in Logroño. Seven points clear and with the goal average in their favour against Toledo, with eight points still to play for, the red-and-whites are aware of how difficult it will be to earn points in Logroño. But the fact that they arrive with survival practically secured, together with the possibility that Naturhouse may be focused on the heroic comeback ahead of them if they are to continue in Europe, gives them a chance to cause an upset and return with the point that would allow them to mathematically secure their place in the ASOBAL League.  

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