Alser Puerto Sagunto visit the Palau Blaugrana

This Sunday from 20:15, with Teledeporte cameras broadcasting live, Alser Puerto Sagunto visit the reigning League and Champions League champions, F.B. Barcelona Intersport. It is the kind of match in which financial and sporting differences make the fixture seem almost a mere formality. However, although only very occasionally, sporting upsets do happen, and the top-flight football league has clearly shown that dreams sometimes come true. Just ask Levante UD or Betis. The red-and-whites have some realistic objectives and some dream objectives ahead of them. The realistic ones are what has become fashionable to call “building positive momentum”: intangibles that do not turn into points in the short term, but do leave the morale tank full for less impossible challenges, such as picking up points at the Palau. Goran’s side have been playing better than their points tally suggests; they could have drawn or even won in Cuenca, and at home against Granollers, despite not being outstanding defensively, the team created opportunities that did not translate into victory. The dream objective, then, is logically to catch Barça having a collective off day and focused on other targets, while combining that with the best possible performance from the Valencians. As for the team Alser will field, Marko Dzokic is out injured and Pachi Peg is unavailable for professional reasons. Both will be replaced by juniors Nacho Moya de Saz and goalkeeper Samuel Ibáñez.

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