Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto want to beat Barça Atlètic at home

Fertiberia Balonmano Puerto Sagunto will play Barça Atlètic on Saturday, 1 February, from 18:30. The match, corresponding to Matchday 18 of the División de Honor Plata, will take place at the Poliesportiu Municipal Port de Sagunt, and the team approaches it as another final in their bid to keep collecting points, secure survival as soon as possible and remain in contention for promotion to Asobal.

Toni Malla, the red-and-white coach, says they will face a ‘team that bears no resemblance to the opponent we faced in the third round of the league. Alongside us and the teams at the top, they are currently the most in-form side in the División de Honor Plata. They won at Burgos and in Alicante, so they are a very high-level group and it will be a difficult challenge for us’.

Despite the difficulty of the opponent, Malla adds that they approach the match with ‘a great desire  to rediscover the feeling we had before last Saturday’s match in Ciudad Real and to feel like a confident team again, trying to do things as well as possible and controlling everything we can. We know about the opponent’s danger, speed and attacking efficiency, but we will try to counter this with hard work, and the players are doing very well this week’.

‘We hope that, once again, the pavilion will be full and that people will support us because, regardless of where we are in the table, whether near the top or bottom, the team always fights and we need our people to support the youngsters. The supporters help them grow in every match, and we must try to get closer to our objective with every game that passes’, concludes Malla. 

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