Abanca Ademar León 30-35 Barça: Another step forward

The Barça handball team took a deserved win in a rearranged fixture against León, the first of two games in three days for Carlos Ortega's team. The 35-30 win saw Melvyn Richardson top score with eight goals and keeper Emil Neilsen record a 48.75% save ratio.  

As was expected it was a tight affair early on against Ademar León but with Neilsen stopping everything, the blaugranes edged into a 13-10 lead with 17 minutes gone. The visitors went from strength to strength and at the break they stretched their lead to 20-13. 

Securing win 

Ademar León came out in the second half and cut Barça's lead to 27-23, only Neilsen preventing them from closing the gap further. At 33-27 with seven minutes left, Barça then closed out a 35-30 win to move ever closer to the league title. 

MATCH STATS 

ABANCA ADEMAR LEÓN, 30

BARÇA, 35

Ademar: Álvaro Pérez, Carlos Álvarez, Eduardo Fernández, Javier Miñambres, Rodrigo Benites, Oscar Lindqvis, Sergio Sánchez -starting seven- Saeid Barkhordari (gk), Patryk Wasiak, Rodrigo Pérez Arce, Rubén Rozada, Álvaro Zapico, Álex Lodos, Alberto Martín, Darío Sanz, Álvaro Fernández.

Barça: Emil Nielsen, Blaz Janc, Dika Mem, Timothey N'Guessan, Jonathan Carlsbogard, Luis Frade, Hampus Wanne -starting seven- Filip Saric (gk), Pol Valera, Melvyn Richardson, Petar Cikusa, Javier Rodríguez, Adrian Sola, Aitor Ariño, Thiagus Petrus, Antonio Bazán.