Necessary, essential and impossible is the meaning of the victory for the three Spanish teams in the groups of the European League, which will play this Tuesday. For Granollers, with three victories in four games, winning in Croatia is a notable step forward; Bidasoa receives the Macedonian team, and the victory keeps them alive: for Benidorm, beating Flensburg is a hypothesis only valid in sport, because the reality is that from the outset it seems like a chimera.
The Fraikin BM Granollers visits (6:45 p.m.) the track of the Croatian RK Nexe, undefeated leader of the group, with whom he plays the first of the two straight meetings between the two. With the victory, the Vallesans would ensure a quieter second round. Antonio Rama warns of the complexity of the start: “It is our worst trip and against the fittest team, with extremely forceful players, both in attack and defense, while the game caught us at a time with very low energy levels”.
Bidasoa receives Irún against the Macedonian Eurofarm Pelister (20:45) and the coach Jacobo Cuétara assures that these two games “are the key” to reach the round of 16: “See which teams compete for the first two places, the third place… all that will be seen in nothing, in a week.” Of the rival, he assures that he has a high level “like Hosni, who is international with Tunisia; the Danish Hennenberg who scored 14 goals for HC Motor, or Wilson Davis who was at Nantes”.
For TM Benidorm, the visit of Flensburg (20:45), leader of the group and one of the favorite teams in the competition, is almost impossible, although the Fernando Latorre squad hopes to enjoy against one of the greats in Europe and fight for the surprise after winning his first game the week before in Hungary. Latorre has asked for the support of the local fans, taking into account that it is the highest-level foreign rival that has visited the Benidorm field: “It is a high-level and prestigious match for the club, the city and the province against a rival Flensburg level, which is comparable with very few teams. It must be a day to enjoy, we will try to compete, but we know the difficulty and our state of fatigue and casualties ”, points out Latorre, who will not be able to count on the injured Bernatonis and Rubén Santos for one more game, as well as Mladen Sotic, who is still in Serbia carrying out bureaucratic procedures.