Barça qualified this Thursday in Jeddah for the Super Globe final -Club World Championship- after defeating the Brazilian Pinheiros -south American champion- in the semifinals by 39-24 in a great match for the Catalans, that passed over their rival and with a great performance from the Argentine goalkeeper Leo Maciel (21 stops).
In this way, Barça will fight on Saturday, starting at 7:30 p.m., for his sixth title of the competition against German SG Magdeburg, current EHF Europa League champion and that they beat the Danish Aalborg, current runners-up in the Champions League, 32-30 in an anthological match by Danish left-back Michael Damgaard with 11 goals. The meeting this Thursday was a true Barça recital with a devastating attack game and a solid defense with impeccable Argentine goal Leo Maciel (21 stops). In addition, Barcelona’s choral game stood out, with eleven players already scoring in the first half. they scored thirteen of the fourteen that took to the track.
Pinheiros opened the scoring through Pillipp Seifert, their best man (0-1), but it was a mirage because a 6-0 run, with a devastating Ludovic Fabregas already opened a gap (6-1, m.7). São Paulo coach Lucio Archivaldo tried unsuccessfully for his defense to close the center, but Barça, taking advantage of superiority situations, was a gale (12-5, 12) and Fábregas had already scored six goals and Ortega gave him rest.
The Barça team, with the young Slovenian central defender Domen Makuc, setting a very high pace, was expanding their advantage (20-11, m.24) and not even the Pinheiros rotations stopped the Barça offensive. Only a small reaction on the part of Seifert managed to reach 23-16 at halftime. In the second half, the Brazilians came out on defense 5-1 and traded their starting goal for Paulo Dos Santos, who would prevent an even bigger debacle for his team with 8 saves. Barça continued to do their thing and, after a 7-0 run (33-19, m.46), Pinheiros returned to 6-0 and Timothey N’Guessan had the maximum advantage of the match (38-23, m .56). Everything had been decided for a long time.