The Plenitude ASOBAL League returns this weekend after a two-week hiatus for REBI Cuenca, which hosts Ángel Ximénez Puente Genil this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. The coach from Cuenca, Lidio Jiménez, spoke about this match at a press conference.
He would have liked the competition to have continued, as his team was doing well with four wins in a row. «In principle the break was not good for us, since we were very good at the level of play and results, but on Sunday we will see. We are facing a team that has also not competed for two weeks, so we have no excuses on that side.
The first thing they want to close is finishing in the top four, something the club has never achieved and they can achieve this Sunday. «We have a very important prize in our hands, if we win on Sunday we are already sure of being in the top four, something we have never achieved and it would be a historic milestone, that is the truth and being able to finish second or third would be something very big, so that we cannot get carried away, since any ASOBAL team would like to be in our situation without Barça. But with all that, we can only think about Sunday and enjoy this position, which would be a prize », he pointed out.
He sees his team very focused to make history. “There are many very senior players, who know what it costs to conquer this position, because you don’t have another chance in your life to be second, so we are aware of the importance of Sunday’s game and the team is more than aware” .
His rival this Sunday comes from curdling good games. «The day against Granollers they lost because Rangel made 20 saves. If a goalkeeper makes so many interventions it is impossible for you to beat them. In León they had the ball to equalize in the last minutes and the truth is that they have improved a lot away from home and Paco is doing a very good job, I expect the best Puente Genil, very powerful, very physical, with a lot of work on the pivot… There we could tie thanks to our defense in the second half, but they dominated us.
Its renewal is pending to become official. “The renewal agreement is done and only the signature is missing, it will be three years, some fringe is missing but it is closed.”
Regarding the ASOBAL nominees, this is his opinion: «There is one more missing, but hey, I sign that there are more from other teams and we are second. Maybe there are fewer who stand out because we are a team, for Nazaré to score goals, others will break their faces. That Nazaré and Juanjo are there is because the whole team has been good. I am for the players, and that there are not many players and I am there does not seem fair to me, the truth », he sentenced.
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2023-05-12 13:51:08
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