30-22: Ademar León, subdued by a goalkeeper with 16 saves and 52% success rate

He Ademar Leon This Tuesday they suffered their first away defeat of the season (30-22) at the start of the EHF European League against the rival, a priori, favorite to lead the group, the Kadetten Schaffhausen who held out during the first half where the Leonese even went ahead on the scoreboard.

As happened in their last league outing, the Leonese team took a while to enter the match to concede a quick 3-0, later extended to a 7-3 (minute 10) that forced the coach, Daniel Gordoto call a timeout in which he showed his discomfort with the game of his team who reacted brilliantly, growing from the goal to turn the score 7-8 (minute 17).

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His rival, in which the former Ademarista captain had entered to direct the game Juan Castrofirst erratic in his shots, began to close his defense, also well protected by the Croatian goalkeeper Kristian Pilipovic that began to cancel out Ademarista's success to break an 8-2 partial in the last stretch of the first half to give the Swiss their maximum advantage (15-11).

The Balkan goalkeeper continued to get bigger to finish with 16 saves and a stratospheric 52% success rate, to continue widening the gap since Ademar's offensive flow dried up without the time-out or playing seven against six taking effect on this occasion, bordering on ten minutes until Gonzalo Perez scored a maximum penalty, in a barely productive match for the top scorer of the League ASOBAL.

Technical sheet

30- Kadetten Schaffhausen (15+15): Pilipovic (1) (Bergmann); Rikhardsson (9, 3 p); Martinovic (4), Meister (3), Peric (3), Maros (2), Lier (-); Pietrasik (2), Saueressig (-), Castro (1), Prince (2), Küttel (1), Reznicky (1) and Hrachovec (1).
22- Abanca Ademar (11+11): Álvaro Pérez (Barkhordari); Zapico (1), Wasiak (2), Alberto Martín (1), Benites (1), Albizu (-), Darío Sanz (2); Miñambres (5), Gonzalo Pérez (2 p), Rodrigo Pérez (4), Edu Fernández (1), Samu Saiz (1), Sergio Fernández (-), Adrián (-) and Rozada (2).
Referees: Miljan Vesovic and Novica Mitrovic (Macedonia).
Exclusions: Martinovic (2), Pietrasik and Reznicky for Kadetten; Rodrigo Pérez, Alberto Martín, Zapico and Rozada (2) by Ademar.
Marker: 3-2, 6-3, 7-7, 9-9, 12-10, 15-11 (rest); 17-11, 19-12, 24-15, 26-17, 27-20 and 30-22 (final).
Incidents: Match of the 1st day of group H of the EHF Europa League played at the BBC Arena in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) in front of about 1,500 spectators.

The differences were close to ten goals in favor of the locals who also began, like Ademar, to give minutes to the less common players, which allowed the difference to be maintained until the final 30-22.