Students – Avenida: First assault towards the semifinals

Eight months after having started working, the time has come. Gone are already the Euroleague, the Queen Cup and the thirty days of the regular phase of the Women’s League. The moment is here and now. Or, more specifically, This Thursday at 8:00 p.m.. The perfumeries Avenue disputes in the mythical Magariños -now transformed into Movistar Academy -in the first of the two clashes of the quarterfinals. The first half of a duel that will continue on Sunday in Würzburg to know the name of one of the semifinalists who will continue in some playoff that promise to be very exciting after what was seen in the Queen’s Cup.

As soon as Montañana has come with many doubts, which has to leave behind if you want to have options to do something big in the remaining weeks for the end of the season. In a course with changes of players, injuries and other problems, Avenida has been able to curdle great actions as against Valencia BC, Spar Girona or some in Europeblurred by other really bad matches, in which the team has shown a lack of concentration and forcefulness. Not to mention the times you have had to row the countercurrent for having put it too easy to the rival.

Avenue no longer has the players who could gain matches alone and, if the attention, intensity and trust are not maximum during the forty minutes anyone can give it a disgust, and more a Movistar Students who already demonstrated in the quarterfinals of the Cup that can be very complicated. His coach and former Avenida, Nacho Martínez, He has made it clear that they do not conform to get here and that makes Madrid even more dangerous.

We will have to play with the head, taking into account that the tie will last eighty minutes and that any period ‘black’ like those that have not stopped suffering from samanctins during these months may mean having the classification further. Montañana has tired of repeating that they know what the problems are and that they do not stop working to correct them. Well, now it is up to them to prove it. If Avenida is able to offer her game – sometimes brilliant, even if it has been on account – and maintain firmness, the first objective of getting into the semifinals will be a little closer. But, We will have to suffer until the last moment with the possibility of taking a serious disgust that is clear that nobody wants.