With four goals from an excellent Diego Nunes, the Balearic Islands eliminated Jaén Paraíso Interior in extra time
Barça will be local in the first match of the best-of-three final against Palma, initially this Tuesday
Palma Futsal will play the first final for the Futsal First Division title against Barça of its history by defeating a combative Jaén Paraíso Interior FS 6-3 in the second leg of the semifinals played at the Palau Municipal d’Esports de Son Moix and which was decided in extra time.
DATA SHEET
FIRST DIVISION
PAL
JAEN
LINEUPS
PALMA FUTSAL, 6
(4+1+0+1): Fabio (p.), Tomaz, Eloy Rojas, Diego Nunes (4), Higor -five starters-, Marlon, Chaguinha (1), Mancuso and Cainan.
JAEN INLAND PARADISE, 3
(0+3+0+0): Álex González (p.), Antonio Pérez, Aicardo, Míchel, Alan Brandi -five starting-, Attos, Felipe Mancha, Mauricio, Mithyue (1), Carlitos (1), César, Bruno Petry and Dani Martin (1).
REFEREES
Aitor Felipe (Basque) and David Urdanoz (Navarrese). They showed a yellow card to local Mancuso (12′); and the visitors Carlitos (14′), Mithyue (14′), Míchel (29′), Bruno Petry (37′) and Felipe Mancha (43′).
GOALS
1-0, Diego Nunes (2′), 2-0, Diego Nunes (8′); 3-0, Carlitos, own goal (12′); 4-0, Diego Nunes (16′); 5-0, Diego Nunes (24′); 5-1, Mithyue (32′); 5-2, Carlitos (32′); 5-3, Dani Martin (39′); 6-3, Chaguinha (46′).
INCIDENTS
Second leg of the play-off semifinals for the Men’s Futsal First Division League title played in front of some 4,000 spectators at the Palau Municipal d’Esports de Son Moix (Palma de Mallorca).
Four of Palma’s six goals were scored by Brazilian winger Diego Nunes, author of a ‘poker’ that sealed qualification for a historic and hard-fought final for the Balearic team. The grand final prize also includes the participation of the five islanders, also for the first time, in the Champions League next season to accompany the azulgranas, current champions.Jaén appeared on the island with the first leg 2-0, but did not know how to capitalize on that advantage. And he wasn’t lucky either. He crashed three shots into the crossbar, the last of them just seconds before Nunes scored the fifth goal.
In fact, hehe palmesanos tied the tie in the first eight minutes with a Brazilian brace, and in minute 12, they won 4-0 with an own goal from Carlos and another from Nunes, the third of his private account.
The ‘yellows’ were not on the track. Weak in defense and null in attack, they only created one clear chance in the first 20 minutes, when Attos (min. 13) crashed a ball into the post. Dani Rodríguez, coach of the Andalusian team, moved the bench in search of a reaction that did not come. With three minutes to go, Jaén played with a goalkeeper-player, a role played by Michelbut that resource took many minutes to give results.
Palma, with everything going for them, played to their heart’s content in one of the most brilliant first 20 minutes in memory in the Balearic Islands. Everything worked out for Antonio Vadillo’s team: serious in defense, decisive up front, found in the Brazilian power forward Diego Nunes the ‘killer’ that he needed to sentence the tie and now he will try to find the most difficult yet against a Barça that he beat 6-2 in the first league game.
Chaguinha made a great match on the night of Diego Nunes
Jaén came out determined in the second half to score the goal that they scored in the match. With a goalkeeper-player he had the ball in his possession for more time, he pressed the ball out of his rival, but did not find spaces to harm the local defense until the final minutes.
Each error in the attack left him at the mercy of shots on empty goal from Palma, who was able to extend the account in one of those actions, although the ball crashed into the post. Eight minutes from the end and when everything seemed lost for the Andalusian quintet, two goals from Mithyue and Carlitos restored the illusion to the visitors. One more goal allowed Jaén to secure extra time, and He got it through Dani Martín 45 seconds from the end in an action that silenced Son Moix.
The visiting quintet risked everything they could in the extra six minutes, since the 5-3 classified the locals. Always with goalkeeper-player, he looked for the goal that was missing, but 35 seconds from the end, an error in the attack allowed Chaguinha to sentence the dramatic tie in the image and likeness of what happened in the quarterfinals against Aspil Jumpers Ribera Navarra.