There Handball Trieste slips further and further down the rankings: another direct clash with an opponent fighting for salvation and another heavy defeat. TO They press comes the 13th consecutive backhand away from Chiarbolabut what matters most is that the Trentino team clearly win 37-26, they catch up with the Giulians in the rankings and reverse the goal difference from the first leg. Which means, with 60 minutes left in the regular season, the squad of Fredi Radojkovic I am now third to lastalso temporarily losing home field advantage in the first round of the playout to the home team’s advantage.
It’s literally raining wet for the red and whites who, in addition to the absences of Di Nardo, Kosec and Pranjicthey also have to give up the injured player between the posts Facundo Garcia (tear to the quadriceps of the right leg, at serious risk for the rest of the season). Both attacks hit the mark at the start thanks to saves from Loizos and Postogna, then after three full minutes Trieste broke the deadlock with a goal from Dapiran. Pressano responds 100” later with Hamouda, the only true Trentino goalkeeper of the first half of the stage, it is the red and whites who set the pace with good initiatives of Urbaz and Andonovski (5-7) even if the hosts always manage to stay in their wake without letting the Giuliani move too far away, who remain ahead but by just one point in the 20th minute (8-9). A few too many mistakes in attack and Pressano’s 4-0 break lead to Trentino’s first overtaking a few moments later (12-9): a complex moment for Trieste, who continue to fire blanks, losing a lot of balls and finding themselves further down in the score with the goal of Rossi, Mizzoni and the usual Hamouda (15-9 and internal partial that widens to 7-0). The long halberd fast was broken by Ceccardi and Dapiran, but at the long break there was a five-point gap between the two teams (16-11).
Trieste tries to produce a shock at the start of the second half: Urbaz and Dapiran they put the provisional -3, Pressano, however, does not make any particular discounts and maintains the inertia thanks to the achievements of Hamouda and Gazzini (20-15). Defense is needed for the Giulians, but this practically never arrives in the minutes it is needed: Trentino’s attacks repeatedly trap the host’s rearguard, once again creating a six-goal margin (25-19 in the 43rd minute). The Trentino team also fly on +10 (33-23), closing the contest prematurely: the gap is too large even to try to get back to at least four points behind Pressano (in the first leg it ended +4 for Trieste), the red and white path for maintaining the A Gold is becoming more and more complicated.
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PRESSANO 37
HANDBALL TRIESTE 26
HANDBALL TRIESTE: Giorgi, Postogna, J. Radojkovic 3, Dapiran 6, Mazzarol, Urbaz 5, Andonovski 3, Somma 1, Ceccardi 6, Visintin, De Luca 1, Sandrin 1, Ganz. All. F. Radojkovic
