He Balearic Islands Palma Futsal continues its triumphant trajectory in this Main Round of the Champions League by crushing the Differdange 03 of Luxembourg by 9-4. With this resounding victory, Antonio Vadillo’s team only needs a draw on Sunday to qualify first for the Elite Round and avoid more complicated rivals in their goal of repeating last year’s Final Four, which concluded with the continental conflict.
The Central European team, in theory the ‘Cinderella’ of the group, came out without complexes against the current champion, but that joy barely lasted a couple of minutes. A triangulation full of quality between Rómulo, Rivillos and Tayebi allowed the Iranian to debut in the competition with an accurate header. Without time to recover, the Luxembourg team had already conceded the same thanks to an assist from Bruno Gomes to Chaguinha, which scored an empty goal. Things couldn’t have started better for the pistachio team, but due to overconfidence on the part of the local defense Dani Garrido narrowed the score. The Luxembourg goal did not change the script of the match with a clear dominance of the Palma team although without creating any major dangerous chances until Tayebi stole a ball in defensive action and went straight to the rival area to beat Xot low. Villian, who did not take to the court in the first match, made his big debut with an unappealable free kick, although his loss immediately came close to allowing Palma Futsal to concede their second goal. But in this toss-up with the Brazilian as the protagonist, he came up heads again and scored the fifth goal from a pass from Marcelo. And Salar, who also did not play on Thursday, achieved the sixth with a great shot from mid-range. Gordillo joined the party to score the seventh after a rehearsed play and Moslem put the cherry on top of the Palma offensive festival with the eighth goal.
It is true that on the court there was a big difference between both teams, but Differdange had put Kairat Almaty in serious trouble on the opening day. What was also seen yesterday in this first part is that the Palma team has a competitive squad and after a logical period of adaptation of the new signings and with several training sessions in a row for the entire group, the level is getting closer to what they want Vadillo.
With the score 8-1, the Jerez coach continued to give field to the less common players and even Jaume Bauzá had the opportunity to debut in the highest continental competition defending the goal and became the first Majorcan from the club to play in the highest international competition.
The saves by the Palma goalkeeper were the actions most applauded by the public, three of them in a row and each one with more merit. Gordillowho these days has some discomfort in his knee, brought the score closer to ten goals by hitting a ball in the goal area.
The only interest in the second half lay in whether the Mallorcan goalkeeper intervened successfully again or if the European champion put double digits on the scoreboard. It was Bocum of a great cross shot who ended Bauzá’s ‘virginity’.
Once again Gordillo was about to take advantage of a pass from Salar to achieve his ‘hat–trick‘, but he narrowly missed the ball. The Toledo pivot was the most outstanding man of this second half. In the absence of goals, the public decided to make a splash. Vilian took the missile out of him again but twice ran into Xot’s stops.
Futsal things, it was the substitute goalkeeper of the Luxembourg team Da Silva who achieved the third goal for his team and shortly after Pedro Gomes took advantage of a defensive ‘frivolity’ by Moslem to disguise the result.
A combination full of talent and speed between the Toledo pivot and Salar was about to score the match with a 10, but had to settle for a 9 because Moslem missed the clearest chance of this second half in the last seconds.
2023-10-28 10:02:23
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