What should have happened in Chiarbola doesn’t happen: there is too much Bressanone for a Trieste Handball team in full emergency in terms of absences. The last match of the championship was a dry defeat against the South Tyroleans, who were very keen to be among the protagonists of the championship semi-finals (28-36), the team from Fredi Radojkovic he remained in the game only in the first few minutes and then did not offer any particular resistance towards the guests. We therefore remain third from last, in two weeks the playout series against Pressano (starting on Saturday 18 May at home, then game 2 and possible game 3 on 23 and 25 May respectively).
Low score at the start, with Azzolin recovering the initial red and white goal Jan Radojkovic. Trieste was forced into a deficit on a couple of occasions with shots towards Volarevic’s goal, but remained provisionally tied at 3-3. Urban (and with the seven meters defused by Postogna on De Oliveira). Azzolin on the wing he wreaks havoc on the home defense and the careless home defense pays the price a few minutes later, with the 4-7 Bressanone representing the first break of the match in the 10th minute. Many Giuliani turnovers during the offensive construction phase, The dances then packs the 5-9 e Sontacchi midway through the period he scores a double for +5. Trieste quickly goes adrift, hitting South Tyrol 6-0, the guests go to the wedding and completely take over the inertia. The youngest of the hosts (i.e., Somma and Andreotta) go on the scoresheet, but the substance does not change: in the 30th minute there is a maximum internal disadvantage at 12-19.
Little changed in the second part of the race, with Bressanone leading far and wide without granting any discounts to the Giulians. The 14-25 sounds like an early sentence for the red and whites, hit repeatedly by Canete, Sonnerer and Stricker. For Fredi Radojkovic the only real possibility is to rotate the entire bench available, to already start thinking about the future series against Pressano. The last gasps until the end of the race are of Dapiran, Urbaz, Sandrin and Andreotta which sugar-coat a bitter pill in terms of the final result. And now they are only testing the playouts, to try to save the Serie A Gold by moving on to the post-season.
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HANDBALL TRIESTE 28
BRESSANONE 36
(pts 12-19)
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