Fertiberia will play EON Horneo Alicante away again on Saturday

Fertiberia Balonmano Puerto Sagunto face the final weeks of the league before starting the new season in División de Honor Plata. Toni Malla’s boys will face EON Horneo Alicante on Saturday 11 September at 8.15 pm. Another friendly in Alicante, at the Pabellón Pitiu Rochel, where it will be the home side’s presentation match.

Red-and-white manager Toni Malla reviews pre-season and says: ‘We have been in pre-season for five weeks and our progress has been very good. What we planned is working perfectly and, as I said the other day, injuries have left us alone, apart from Luis’s injury, which is gradually improving very well.’

‘Last weekend in Elche, the match helped us to keep building the team. We were a little weaker in the first half than in the second. In the second half they scored only six goals against us. The team is taking more and more steps forward in terms of systems and tactics. We are growing as a group and physically.’

Regarding Saturday’s match against Horneo, he expects it to be as closely contested as the Comunitat Valenciana Cup semi-final: ‘Now the matches we have left are against Alicante, winners of the Copa Generalitat. It will be an entertaining match; here, it was already a very closely contested game. Our objective is to keep building and test ourselves against high-quality opponents.’

‘We will play the final match of pre-season against Unió Esportiva Sarrià, a team we will meet in the league, which has been in División de Honor Plata for several years. Hopefully things will continue to go well, as that is our objective. We have only a few weeks left; we have already reduced the physical workload, this is the final week, and next week we will taper further so that we arrive at the league as well prepared as possible,’ concludes the red-and-white coach.

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