After important milestone achieved in the regular league, getting up with the title of the League, the Asmubal Meaño begins this weekend the second phase of the League, the road to an ascent that was not the goal of the season, but which has become a great illusion within the club.
The first place harvested in the first phase of competition, to a regular league, allows the Meañés team to play the return of this previous qualifying tie, which will be a point in favor for a team that has shown this fans that has demonstrated a great power this course.
However before that meeting in the Coirón Denathe pupils of Juan Costas They will have to travel to Municipal Pavilion September 11 To dispute the first leg before the Lleida Handball Cluba second classified but that has “a very good initial seven” and that “knows what it does already play”, as Juan Costas himself explains.
The coach of the Asmubal Meaño, who this week returned to work after giving the team a few days, ensures that the players are “very excited” with this ascent phase, with this opportunity they arrive as a “more veteran” team after The experience of two years ago.
“The truth is that the team has worked well, we have had rest at Holy Week and we returned on Monday to the past with strength,” acknowledges a Juan Costas that ensures that “The injured will travel with the teambut it is not known if they will participate since it is a meeting to be 200%, although they are eager. “
At stake will be, in a “120 -minute” tie “enter the last phase of the fight for promotion, a Final Four in concentration format which will put two places in play in Honor Division Golden.
That is why the Meaño Asmubal must be better than the Lleida in this tie to access that last part of the championship. Juan Costas is clear that “at home we have always been strong and we know that The game is played 120 minutesyou cannot throw the game from there, we have to get a result as favorable as possible or the least unfavorable “, in order to close the pass at home.
The game is played 120 minutes, we have to get a result as favorable as possible or the least unfavorable, says Juan Costas
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And although he acknowledges that “you have to have a little luck,” he says he believes “at work” and in that sense he has the peace of mind that the work has done well and the players are clear about what is at stake, with the internal experience of two years ago.
He also explains that “we have changed things in our game model for this phase and the players are assuming it well.”
A level rival
In front will be a Lleida who has never faced the mea mea, but has “A very good initial seven“In the same way Juan Costas states that” the game’s rhythm of the other groups is faster than ours “and that is why the team must be” 200%”to stand up to him and be better in the tie.
The Catalan team ended Second of group D of competition and although it is a team “that ascended when we did us and that disputes its first phase”, has signed a good regular season.
And despite not getting first place in the group, Lleida Handbol has been the only team that has been able to impose itself on Oar Gracia Sabadellgroup leader.
He Asmubal Meaño begins the second phase of the competition. With the idea of looking for the triumph in the previous tie and accessing the Final Four, the team of Juan Costas prepares to visit a dangerous team before which he wants to assert his good job throughout the year, what he learned two years ago and the illusion with which they face it.
