The Barça team will compete this Saturday in the Super Globe semi-finals against Füchse Berlin (3:30 p.m.)
The Danes Gidsel and Lasse Andersson (formerly of Barça) and the goalkeeper Milosavljev are the three references of the ‘Foxes’
Barça enjoys a well-deserved rest day this Friday after beating Saudi Al-Noor (19-43) and Egyptian Al Ahly (26-37) in just 24 hours to reach the semifinals of the Super Globe.
After losing the last two finals against Magdeburg, the Barça team faces a very tough challenge this Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in the semis against the current undefeated leader of the Bundesliga, Füchse Berlin.
The team led by Jaron Siewert competes in the Super Globe as champion of a European League in which it defeated Antonio Rama’s heroic Fraikin Granollers in the final and He has a spectacular streak in the very tough German League with 10 wins and a draw precisely on the last day on the historic Gummersbach court (30-30).
The Berliners are ahead on two points to Magdeburg, the champion of the last two Super Globes (defeated Barça in both finals) who faces Dujshebaev’s Kielce this Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in the second semi-final. And be careful, Filip Jicha’s THW Kiel fell this Thursday 36-33 on the Hannover-Burgdorf court (the team from which Carlos Ortega came to Barça) and is already seven points away from the ‘Champions zone’. The ‘Zebras’ are going to have a very bad time.
Mathias Gidsel is one of the best players in the world
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The ‘Foxes’ have a great squad in which three players currently shine above the rest, perhaps with permission only from the Swedish left winger Jerry Tollbring. His great figure is Danish right back Mathias Gidsel (24 years old), one of the new leaders of the world champion team and scorer of 26 goals in the two Super Globe games, 13 in each one.
The second is an old acquaintance of the Barcelona fans. He is capable of playing as a center back and left back, the also Danish Lasse Andersson caused a sensation in his first season at the Palau (2016-17), but two serious injuries in a row to his left knee led to his departure to a Füchse in which he is experiencing the best moment of his career.
The third ‘passenger’ is Dejan Milosavlev, a goalkeeper who responds perfectly to the typology of the Barça player Emil Nielsen. And if the Dane measures 1.96 meters and weighs around 125 kilos, the Serbian is the same height and is over 130. Both are among the best goalkeepers on the planet today.
Both teams are in a delicate situation at the personnel level, since if Barça has lost Domen Makuc due to injury after the departure of Ludovic Fàbregas (Veszprém) and Luka Cindric (Dinamo Bucuresti), Füchse cannot count on two of his German references such as the left back Paul Drux and the right Fabian Wiede, the Swedish right winger Valter Chrintz (KO since January), his compatriot pivot Max Darj and now the second Russian goalkeeper Viktor Kireev.
Lasse Andersson shines again after two serious injuries
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Another detail in a Barça key is the presence in defensive tasks in the Berlin team of a player who did not leave a particularly positive memory at the Palau, the Croatian Marko Kopljar in the 2015-16 season.
As for Barça, The team recovered its joy and intensity in the second half against Al Ahly defense that seemed to have lost in the last few games with an important step forward from Jonathan Carlsbogard. The Swede is increasingly important in defense and finally let his arm loose with four great goals in important moments.
This greater offensive production allowed Carlos Ortega go to a single defensive change (the entry of ‘marshal’ Thiagus Petrus), an important aspect if the rivals run like Füchse could do this Saturday.
AND We will have to wait for the evolution of a Dika Mem that on Thursday he didn’t play almost at all in the second half due to those recurring muscle cramps that reappeared and for which no solution can be found despite how hard the club’s medical services and recuperators are working. Without ‘Ludo’, Cindric or Makuc, Barça needs the Frenchman to the fullest and they always need him.