Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto begin the second half of the season at home against Novás

Fertiberia Balonmano Puerto Sagunto will play Acanor Atlético Novás on Saturday 18 January from 18:30 in the first match of the second half of the season. The fixture corresponding to Matchday 16 of the Silver Honour Division will take place at the Poliesportiu Municipal Port de Sagunt, with the team aiming to continue picking up points to secure safety as soon as possible and remain in the promotion race for Asobal.

For Toni Malla, the first meeting of the second half of the season is  ‘a complicated match as a coach because we always like to control the situations in the game, the tactics, and know which team we are going to face, and in the end Novás have changed manager and their dynamics will probably change. They also have players who have left and players who have arrived; uncertainty is always a danger’.

Regarding the opponents they will face, Malla expects a team that is ‘excited and eager to pick up points as soon as possible to get out of the low position they find themselves in. That makes the match very difficult. For us, facing teams against whom the opponent has nothing to lose is a very dangerous challenge’.

According to Toni Malla, the key to winning is to put in another mature performance without anxiety: ‘In the last match against Ibiza we overcame a barrier and achieved an objective, which was to rid ourselves of the anxiety of wanting to win quickly. I think we put in a very mature performance and, as the minutes passed, we knew how to break the game open. That is what we must take from it and approach this match in the same way so that we can win’.

‘We hope people come and get excited with us. The boys are doing very well and are immensely eager to do even better, and we need our supporters so that the stands become fuller every matchday. In the end, we are sellers of excitement and we need people to get excited and come this Saturday’, Malla concludes. 

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