Logic prevailed in the elite handball “warriors” derby, which returned after an absence of more than ten years, with Atticgo CBM Elche’s resounding victory over Elda Prestigio. The victory allows the Franjiverdes to remain among the League leaders, while the defeat extends the bad run of Chema Vives’ students, who will continue their fight for permanence.
Fulfilling the expected scenario, the local people started the match by dominating under their leadership. Very thin on offense and a defense that stifled the visitors. Joaquin Rocamora decided to give the baton Andrew and give some players minutes considering the busy week the team has had in front of him.
HE Elda PrestigeFor his part, he entrusted almost everything to his two best parts: Lima and Prades. The Brazilian kept his hope of being competitive as he scored his team’s first six goals, and when the goalkeeper’s performance was added to this, the scoring became even tighter.
Having wasted several clear counter-attacks, Atticgo Elche found themselves in trouble both defensively and offensively, and this lasted for around ten minutes. They forgot to score goals and to a large extent defend. Eldens took advantage of this and went from 9-4 to 9-8Both returned from their own area to the empty goal from Prades.
From seven meters Méndez closed off the possibility of an equalizer for her opponent and Gascó’s counter-attack after Carratú’s stop allowed the Elche girls to break their drought in the game. Flores’ emergence as defensive general enabled Atticgo Elche We widened the gap again with a 6-0 run at halftime. In the match against the opponent, many players noticed accumulated fatigue.
Fringed green roll
The home team’s superiority continued in the second period and the score reached 17-8. Zhukovaafter rejection and Van Zijl. Duque, with the complicity of the post, was responsible for preventing the set from continuing to grow by leaving the set at 8-0.
With the gap already wide and the match decided, almost the entire second half served as a quality training session rather than a competitive encounter. And also to confirm in the stands that, after more than a decade, a colorful and passionate derby is back.. While local fans enjoy their new exhibition, whose project continues to grow excitingly, those leaving Elda hope to continue to step among the best and return to Esperanza Lag next season.
The passing of the minutes did little to curb Atticgo Elche’s greed as they searched for the biggest goal difference possible. This eventually ended with a 12 point difference (34-22) in the derby, where the visiting Lima were the top scorers with 10 goals; In women, the name that scored the most goals from Elche was Van Zijl (7 goals).
Girls from Elche are in first place on average with just one goal difference
Bera Bera beat Oviedo (34-31) this Saturday with more problems than expected against other teams that closed the standings, so Elche (+62) takes first place with a slight difference compared to the Basques thanks to the overall average (+61). On the other hand, Costa del Sol Málaga lost to Rocasa Gran Canaria (24-20) and remained out of the top three tied.
MATCH COMMITTEE
ATTICGO ELCHE: Carratú (p), Morales (ps); Zhukova (1), Van Zijl (7), Oppedal, Guilabert (1), Méndez (2), Andreu (1), So Delgado (5), Gascó (6), Flores, Benítez (1), Wolfs (4) , Bernabé (2), Do Nascimento (1) and Rosa (3).
ELDA PRESTIGE: Prades (p, 1), Sánchez (ps); García, Duque (2), Mulet (1), Lima (10), Azcune (3), Pereira (4), Villaescusa, Rivadeneira, Claramonte, Rodríguez, Escribano (1), Martínez, Pastor and Cesar.
EACH 5′ POINTS: 3-1, 6-2, 8-4, 9-7, 10-8, 15-8 (first half); 18-11, 23-11, 25-12, 28-15, 30-17 and 34-22.
REFEREES: Manuel Mohedano and Vicente Peris. They excluded Benítez, Wolfs and Oppeal for the local teams and Cesar (2) for the visiting teams.
PAVILION: Esperanza Delay.