He was beaten to dream. AtticGo CBM Elche scores its best game of the season before its first big stake on the course, recalls the version that was recently Cup and Super Cup champion. Outstanding defense and an excellent offensive reading allowed the players led by Joaquín Rocamora to gain a 12-goal lead (31-19) over ZORK Jagodina in the first leg of the EHF European Cup 16th round. acceleration in franchiver.

The first half could have been perfectly split into two halves of one quarter hour each.. In the first, parity was the usual trend, with two busy teams knowing what they had to do to try to take the initiative. The Elche women insisted on excesses with Guilabert and Gascó, and the Serbs surrendered themselves to the hands and intelligence of Adzic and Kojcic.


Celebrating a goal from the Wolfs Matias Segarra

In the second quarter of the one-hour game, franciverde’s sphere of influence was complete. i am weak He entered the duel like a ball, despite a few mistakes made by Gascó after the change of goalkeeper at Jagodina, the foreigners continued with a high level of success and above all, AtticGo Elche’s defense has almost completely canceled visitors. Morales started to make a difference on the scoreboard with a few decisive saves (13-10, min.25).

Revenue reached five goals after the appearance of Brazilian Alexandra (16-11) and a final deli from Oppedal, who raced against the clock to avenge a previous mistake, standing in the line and beaten by the rival zone (16-11). Serbian goal with a beautiful balloon.

no brake

Far from changing the scenario of the second part, it became more in line with the interests of the local people. Thus, Delgado was freed from the reins, to which his partner Van Zijl, on the other hand, joined.. Income was increasing thanks to a defensive wall that Zhukova and Flores didn’t let loose for a moment (26-15, min.45).

Precisely this impetus cost AtticGo Elche three nearly-in-a-row exclusions that forced them to stop the storm. The Serbs gasped and even managed to narrow the lead to under 10, but then Elche’s best version re-emerged to put the 13-point lead in their favor (31-18, min.58) with a sixth goal by Guilabert. would finally be within a dozen with Jagodina’s final destination.

The revenue is juicy enough to consider seeing the AtticGo Elche again in the quarterfinals of European competition.. However, those from Rocamora have memories of the previous round where everything was decided in the first game and they had to suffer in the second game. In the Balkan lands, the “green-fringed warriors” will have to confirm their tickets among the top eight.


Serbs couldn’t stop Elche Matias Segarra

match paper

ATTICGO CBM ELCHE (16+15): Morales (s), Rodrigues (ps); Zhukova, Van Zijl (5), Oppedal (1), Celia Guilabert (6), Méndez (1), Andreu, So Delgado (6), Gascó (3), Flores (2), Benítez, Elena Martínez (1), Wolves (2), Bernabé (1) and Alexandra do Nascimento (3).

ZORK JAGODINA (11+8): Hlogyik (s), Radivojevic (ps), Djurasinovic (ps); Adzic (5), Kojcic (4), Simatovic, Pejovic (1), Sukur, Gugac (2), Radevic (3), Markovic, Bojicic, Bogunovic, Stojanovic and Mitrovic (4).

REFEREES: Mattias Fält and Mikael Holm. They excluded Alexandra, Flores, Bernabé and Gascó on the Elche side and Bojicic, Adzic and Pejovic on the Serbian side.

PAVILION: Esperanza Lag. EHF European Cup round of 16 first leg.