Barça has taken this Friday in Antequera the first of the three steps that he will need to win the Copa del Rey for the ninth consecutive season and the 26th in the sensational record of the section.
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BARÇA, 35
(19+16): Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas (l.), Thiagus Petrus, Ludovic Fàbregas (3), Dika Mem (5), Haniel Langaro, Aleix Gómez (8), Aitor Ariño -first five-, Luka Cindric (11 ), Timothey N’Guessan (2), Yussef Benali (1), Blaz Janc (1), Melvyn Richardson (3), Ángel Fernández (1), Ali Zein and Domen Makuc.
HELVETIA ANAITASUNA, 32
(15+17): Juan Manuel Bar (p.), Ander Izquierdo (4), Antonio Bazán (4), Arthur Pereira (5), Álvaro Gastón (3), Juan del Arco (2), Carlos Chocarro (5) -starting seven-, Marcos Cancio (ps), Héctor González, Iban Meoki (1), Xabier Etxeberria (3), Edu Fernández (4), Aitor García, Aitor Albizu, Mikel Redondo (1) and Pavel Bulkin.
REFEREES
Víctor Rollán and Luis Colmenero (Castilla y León). They excluded two minutes Dika Mem (31:29), Thiagus Petrus (36:58), Haniel Langaro (36:49) and Ali Zein (53:52), from Barça; and Antonio Bazán (2:40) and Edu Fernández (25:33), from Helvetia Anaitasuna.
MARKER EVERY FIVE MINUTES
4-3, 8-6, 10-8, 13-11, 17-12, 19-15 (rest), 21-17, 26-20, 29-24, 32-27, 33-29 and 35-32 (final).
INCIDENTS
Last match of the quarterfinals of the men’s Copa del Rey handball played before some 2,200 spectators at the Fernando Argüelles Pavilion (Antequera, Málaga).
The team led by Carlos Ortega has won 35-32 against Helvetia Anaitasuna with a small scare at the end in the last quarterfinal match of this final phase that is being played this weekend at the Fernando Argüelles and will play Frigorífico Morrazo this Saturday in the semifinals.
The other semifinal will also be played on Saturday Angel Ximénez Puente Genil and a Fraikin Granollers that he defeated Bidasoa Irun this Friday in a great match and that he needs to win and so does the Catalans to seal his European ticket for next year without having to wait for the league.
After a hot preview in which it was known that Ludovic Fàbregas will not renew his contract and will sign in 2023 for Momir Ilic’s Telekom Veszprém, the Catalans accepted the two-way goalscoring duel that the Navarrese proposed to them in a match in which Luka Cindric stood out, with Aleix Gómez and Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas as squires.
With Juan del Arco as master of ceremonies, the ‘Anaita’ endured well until the seventh minute (5-5) before the voracity of Aleix Gómez with his fifth ‘target’ without fail led to the first pull of the champions (7-5).
Aleix Gómez, six goals in the first half and a single error
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What’s more, Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas shone with five stops and 50% effectiveness, which led to the 11-8 that forced Quique Domínguez to stop the game and design an attack without a goalkeeper that made them dream of a comeback.
With goals from Álvaro Gastón and Edu Domínguez, Helvetia Anaitasuna came within a single goal (11-10), at which point a Luka Cindric who collaborated with two goals in a row to the highest income so far (17-12, min. 25) with the opponent attacking again with six.
The break was reached with 19-15 and in the first minutes of the second act a sensational Luka Cindric raised his filmmaking baggage to nine without a single mistake to promote the maximum income of the match (26-20, min. 40).
Blaz Janc reappeared after his appendicitis operation
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Despite Cindric’s ten-goal display with perfect statistics, ‘Anaita’ continued to believe in his options and came to attack with 30-26 12 minutes from the end in a play that ended with a bad lost long pass.
The champion of the eight previous editions had stopped defending too long ago and the Navarre team from Pamplona took advantage of Ali Zein’s exclusion due to a bad substitution to achieve a 0-3 run with goals from Izquierdo, Chocarro and Etxeberria to place a disturbing 33-31 four minutes from the end before the fervor of the stands.
Quique Domínguez’s men even attacked to get close to one, but there was a save by Gonzalo, Cindric’s eleventh goal and a Croatian ride that led to 35-32 signed by Fàbregas decided the match. The ‘Anaita’ is huge!