Alser Puerto Sagunto and Pachi Peg want to bid farewell to their supporters with a victory
Alser Puerto Sagunto and Maygar BM Antequera will contest the Liga Asobal bottom-of-the-table clash next Saturday from 18:30 at the Ovni in Puerto Sagunto. A match that at the beginning of the year the red-and-white side marked on the calendar as vital to their sporting hopes of avoiding relegation...
2012-05-18
Alser Puerto Sagunto and Maygar BM Antequera will contest the Liga Asobal bottom-of-the-table clash next Saturday from 18:30 at the Ovni in Puerto Sagunto.
At the beginning of the year, the red-and-white side marked this match on the calendar as vital to their sporting hopes of avoiding relegation. Unfortunately, it is now only vital for the Antequera side, who, although their chances are extremely remote, still have hopes of preserving their place in the division in intensive care.For the red-and-white side, however, the match has other, far from trivial, motivations. On the one hand, Alberto Estornell’s team want to bid farewell to their supporters with a victory after so many disappointments. In addition, the match has another emotional element: it will be Pachi Peg’s farewell to the handball courts. If his hamstring allows him to, he will play, although in any event he plans to address the supporters who have been his fans for seven years. Alser are also seeking to avoid finishing bottom of Asobal, and to do so they must beat Antequera by more than three goals, hope that the Andalusians lose to Guadalajara, and secure a red-and-white victory in Vigo against Octavio on the final matchday.
The match comes with the Valencians’ treatment room overflowing and doubts remaining until the last minute. Both left backs, Cid and Sorrentino, are unavailable, as is left wing Sergio Berrios. They are joined by the aforementioned doubt over Peg, the highly probable absence of Ruben Ruiz with an ankle sprain, and doubts over Angel Fernandez and Nacho Moya Florido—the former has gastroenteritis, while the former Antequera player is suffering from a fever.
For the Andalusian side, despite all the financial problems and the departures during the middle of the season, the contributions of their two goalkeepers, Moyano and Mijatovic, together with the outstanding seasons of two illustrious veterans such as Espigol and Bustos, have kept their sporting hopes alive, despite this team’s bleak prospects in terms of their performances on the court.
On the financial and social front, the red-and-white board and the Citizens’ Platform for the Defence of BM Puerto Sagunto are appealing to the public to join in signing the support manifesto, as Alser’s senior executives and representatives of the Platform plan to hand the collected signatures—around 7,000 as of last Monday—to the Mayor next Tuesday.
Translation produced using artificial intelligence.