The first phase of the Iberdrola Guerreras League ends this afternoon. With unified hours (7:00 pm), seven party decide the path they must follow … The teams from the following week. There is a set, Zuazo handball, which is already descended. And another, the one who occupies the ninth place tonight, will also end today the competition. No option to fight for the title or fight to maintain the category.
The rest of the teams still have work ahead. The first eight will face qualifiers for the title, round trip, first against eighth, second against seventh, third against sixth and fourth against fifth.
On the other hand, from the tenth to the thirteenth they will play the ‘Play Down’ and the last, it will descend. In this league the graphometal Sporting La Rioja will be sure, which this afternoon plays in San Sebastián against the Super Amara Bera Bera, third in the classification. The truth is that the points at stake have no significance for the Rioja, so Luismi Ascorbe will take the opportunity to distribute minutes among their players and take care of those who are played in the face of the important competition that begins next week.
-First lines such as Karol Lewandowski or Mine Novovic, for example, will have less minutes than usual to recover from different ailments.
After improving his image in the first match of Luismi Ascorbe on the graphometal bench, the Rioja won a match last week, against Beti Onak (17-16).
Today the graphometal will be very aware of two fields that are not theirs. On the one hand, in Villava, the Beti Onak receives the leader Mecalia Atlético Guardés. On the other, in the city of Elda, the Elda Prestigio locals receive the motivemarket.com Gijón. The most profitable for the interests of the Riojaas would be a defeat of the Beti Onak and a triumph of Elda, which would put the Navarras in the dispute of the ‘Play Down’. The graphometal has the two games won against them, which benefits them.