The Barça team, led by Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas and Dika Mem, tombs the Danish team at the Palau
The Barçaundefeated leader of Group B of the handball Champions League, said goodbye this year to Palau Blaugrana with a win over Aalborg Dane 32-26 after a great second half and a Gonzalo Perez de Vargas extraordinary (14 stops in this second period).
The team of Carlos Ortega continues to lead with eight wins and one draw, surpassing by one point the Kielce Polish and already in five to Nantes, third, and that this Thursday he lost in Kiel (37-33). The French team will be Barça’s rival on the next day.
hesitant start
The Catalan team was surprised from the start by a very fast game from the Danes (2-4, m. 4), with the former Barça player Aron Palmarsson very effective, although thanks to the actions of the Swede Hampus Wanne from seven meters he managed to get ahead (10-8, m.16).
The visitors quickly took the initiative with Mikkel Hansen, another ex-azulgrana and the young left-back Mads Hoxer Hangar very successful (13-15, m. 27). Perhaps the fact that Ortega reserved his two most effective men, Dika Mem and Aleix Gómezmany minutes in the first half, allowed Danish dominance.
And it was not a major difference thanks to the eight saves by the Barça goal Emil Nielsen, answered with another nine (2 from 7 meters) from the Swedish goalkeeper from Aalborg, Mikael Aggefors.
down to break
After the 15-16 break, Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas replaced Nielsen in the Barça goal and Dika Mem started the second half on court, while the Swede Felix Claar it happened to be the ‘engine’ of Aalborg.
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Several stops from Gonzalo and the Mem hit they equalized the contest (17-17, m. 35) although the interventions of Aggefors and the success of Hangaard kept the visitors up (21-22, m. 41) who imposed a slow pace of play.
Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas had already made eight saves in the first fifteen minutes of this period and this caused Barça to take the lead after a maximum penalty transformed by Dika Mem (24-23, m. 45).
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Gonzalo, on a roll
A visiting time cut the Barca streak, but a Gonzalo saves a maximum penalty by Mikkel Hansen, caused the gap to open (27-24, m.52) after goals from Luis Frade and Melvin Richardson. Aalborg chose to play with seven in attack without a goalkeeper.
The Barca goalkeeper was still on a roll and, in addition, the young Slovenian central defender Domain Makuc He set a high pace and Barça already dominated comfortably (29-24, m. 54) and the public stood up with the second stop at a maximum penalty of Michael Hansen.
Also, the nine so much of Dika Mem, the revulsion in the Catalan attack, established the final 32-26 of a match with an exceptional protagonist: Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas.
Datasheet:
32 – Barça (15+17): Nielsen (Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas, m.31 to 60); Cindric (1), Janc (3), Fábregas (2), Thiagus Petrus (-), N’ Guessan (4), Wanne (6.3p), -starting seven- Carlsbogard (-), Melvyn Richardson (1), Lángaro (-), Mem (9.1p), Makuc (2), Frade (4), Aleix Gómez (-) and Martí Soler (-).
26 – Aalborg (16+10): Aggefors (Street, m.55 a 60); Bjornsen (2). Sandell (1), Claar (6), Palmarsson (4), Antonsen (3), Barthold (1), -siete initial- Mollgaard (-), Mikkel Hansen (4.3p), Hoxer Hangaard (5), Flodman ( -) y Jacobsen (-).
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Court: Palau Blaugrana (3,646 spectators).