With a seven-point deficit after losing in the first leg of the semifinals (66-73), but the illusion intact due to the performance offered, the Cadi La Seu will look for the comeback this Friday (8:30 p.m.) on the track of the Avenue Perfumeries to access the final of the Endesa Women’s League.
In the first game of the series, played last Sunday at the Palau Municipal d’Esports in La Seu d’Urgell, which provided a great atmosphere for its players, the team from Lleida was on many occasions the leader of the regular league and the great favorite for the title.
“We are going to Salamanca to have a good game, without taking into account that it is a tie, and with the same mentality that we had here at home“, declared Bernat Canut, coach of the Lleida team, who hopes to make “a good start to the match, so that they do not add those forceful partials at the beginning that do so much damage”.
Despite being behind on the scoreboard throughout the match, the tireless resistance of the Cadí La Seu managed to reduce the disadvantage to one point during several phases of the matchas happened in the second quarter after a basket by Irati Etxarri (21-22) or in the third through Laia Raventós (50-51).
Looking ahead to the second leg Cadí La Seu should limit the exterior success of Perfumerías Avenida (12 of 21), “which is what punished us in Salamanca”, admitted Canut. And he will have to do it without losing his own accuracy (7 out of 15) and maintaining the aggressiveness in the fight for the rebound (31 to 30).
Perfumerías ended up winning by seven points, after conceding a triple on Etxarri’s buzzer, a scratch that keeps Cadí’s ambition alive, longs to overcome the semifinals of the seasons 14-15 and 18-19his two best results in the competition.