Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto travel to León aiming to keep picking up points

Fertiberia Balonmano Puerto Sagunto face Ademar León at the Palacio Municipal de los Deportes on Sunday 12 November from 12:30. The red-and-whites, who have only three points to their name, know they will face one of the teams in the upper-middle part of the table. Despite this, they travel to León aiming to keep picking up points on matchday 10  of the Liga Profesional Plenitude Asobal. 

The visitors go into the match after drawing in the final minute against Blendio Sinfín. Toni Malla says: ‘During the days we have had to work after the draw, we have reflected on several things. The first is that we all came away very angry and disappointed because we cannot allow 38 goals to be scored against us. In our first year in the Silver Division, we fell one point short of our objective while having one of the best defences in the Silver Honour Division, and last year we were promoted because we were the best in that aspect. We cannot lose our defensive DNA. It is clear that the team has improved in attack, doing a good job over the past few months, but we need to tighten up in defence. Mentally, we have to change some things. We know that negative things happen during matches and we have to improve and be more positive, myself included, to try to change the course of matches. If we are pegged back or the opponents pull away on the scoreboard, we have to stay positive, fight and battle until the end, because this must also be our DNA.’

They will face the seventh-placed side, who have accumulated 10 points. Malla says of Ademar León that ‘they are a great team who will make things very difficult for us, but we are going there with the hope of trying. We want to take something positive from the match in terms of points and performance, so that we can continue improving, because we have a full final on the weekend of the 18th. It is a very special week that we have to be well prepared for. We cannot promise results, but we can promise that the team will give everything on the court, and that is what we will try to do in León.’

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