The CN Barcelona He fell in Brescia staying out of the Champions League. Now they will continue to compete in this case in the Eurocup together with the CN Sabadell in the quarterfinals.
Brescia qualify for the group league and will play, among others, with Barceloneta and Jadran Split, another of the qualifiers. In the other group they will go, OSC Budapest and Red Star Belgrade, who eliminated Savona by just one goal.
Qualifying was very difficult after the 13-17 defeat in the first leg. Therefore, the clearest options were to try to win the match against the Italian champion.
Brescia started the second leg as the first leg ended with two goals from captain Presciutti and the inevitable Renzuto to put a 2-0 upside down which in the last play of the first quarter was in charge of reducing Adrià Delgado.
Barcelona’s best minutes were seen in the second quarter. After the Italian 3-1, two goals from Abel Ramon and another from Delgado to place the 3-3. They began the collection of ties there. Barcelona responded to each Lombard goal (4-4, 5-5, 6-6) to reach the halfway point of the match in draws and with 4-5 partial. Roger Tahull, Blai Mallarach and Delgado’s third, the scorers in that final part of the period.
The same trend continued at the beginning of the third half. The goals of Di Somma and Renzuto were balanced by Mallarach and Tahull, more successful in attack than in the first leg. The 8-8 was the last balance.
The story of the first meeting was repeated, Víctor González’s team ran out of gasoline between the end of the third half and the last quarter. From there, three consecutive goals from Lazic, Luongo and Presciutti gave Brescia the highest income (11-8). In the last attack of the period, Mallarach scored his third goal to go down two and six in the tie in the fourth quarter.
In the last eight minutes, Brescia escaped further on the scoreboard to 14-10. Blai Mallarach and Adrià Delgado with four goals each were the Catalan scorers. In the end, the score for the first leg was almost repeated with the final 16-13 for an aggregate of 33 to 26.
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