Champions League. The most solid Barcelona prevails over Kielce
The reigning European champions beat the runners-up 32-28 in the first big duel of the Champions League this season.
Barcelona has beaten Talant Djushebaev’s Polish Kielce by 32-28 in the first big duel of the Champions League this season, the repeated final of the last edition, after a clash in which the azulgrana kept The initiative on the scoreboard for almost the entire game and they are already Group B leaders.
Although the azulgrana advantage reached six goals (19-13, m,32), Kielce, through Arcadiusz Moryto (6 goals) and Alex Djushebaev (4) knew reaction at all times although without being able to turn around the scoreboard.
at Barca, a great Emil Nielsen in the first half and Gonzalo Perez de Vargas the last 15 minutes of the second, together with the contribution of Fabregas (6 points) and say me (5) were keys to a valuable victory.
It was clear that both teams, still undefeated so far this season also in their national leagues, they were not going to give up. At Barça, central defender Luka Cindric entered the squad, recovered his discomfort in his right leg and at Kielce, Polish defensive specialist Tomasz Gebala and Swedish central defender Elliot Stenmalm were absent due to injury.
After a start in which Barça saw handcuffed by exclusions (three in 9 minutes) and this allowed Kielce to go up (6-7, m.11). In addition, his open defense in ‘five-one’ with Benoit Kounkoud stopped foreign actions azulgrana.
The party began to favor the Catalan side when Fábregas threw his team to a 3-0 run (13-10, m.18), breaking the Polish defense through the center where the Spanish Miguel Sánchez-Migallón was.
Michal Olejniczak, who would only be on the track for four minutes when injured. relieved the Croatian Igor Karacic in the direction of Kielce and Talant Djushebaev reacted to his defense (14-12, m.20) and changed the German goalkeeper Andreas Wolff for the young Pole Mateusz Kornecki.
Recital of the Barça goalkeepers
With 16-13 (m.25) the recital of the azulgrana goalkeeper Emil Nielsen began (12 saves in this first half) with two maximum penalty stops and three consecutive releases in the last four minutes for the 18-13 break. Another positive aspect of the first half was the central defender’s debut in the official competition luka cindric (m.22).
The Kielce came out with more poise and ensuring the passes and shots to achieve a 1-4 run (19-17, m.39) to get back into the game and confuse the Barcelona defense.
The Polish defense was also more solid in the center and this meant that Barça only scored two goals in 14 minutes and conceded seven. With 21-20 (m.44), Carlos Ortega asked for time to calm down your team and gave entry to Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas, who would be key to the final, by Nielsen.
The exclusions now took their toll on Kielce and the gap opened up again (24-20, m.46) and Melvin Richardson for Barça and Alex Djushebev for Kielce were very effective and the swords are presented high (26-24, m.51).
The azulgrana accelerated in attack (30-26, m.57) although Kielce did not give up and through their best man today, the left-handed winger Arcadiusz Moryto, tried to react again (30-28, m.59), but Cindric and Hampus Wanne closed the scoring (32-28).
data sheet
28 – Lomza Kielce (13+15): Wolff (Kornecki, d. 20 to 30); Kounkoud (2), Alex Djushebaev (4), Karalek (2), Karacic (3.2p), Sicko (4), Nahí (1), -starting seven-, Remilí (2), Moryto (6.2p), Tournat (-), Thrastarson (-), Daniel Dujshebaev (3), Sánchez-Migallón (1) and Olejniczak (-).
referees: Mirza Kurtagic (SWE) and Mattias Wetterwik (SWE).Exclusions: A Mem (m.4), Janc (M.6), N’Guesssan (m.9), Petrus (m.16) and Roja Directa a Frade (m.51) for Barça and Kounkoud (m.2), Remilí (m.18), Karacic (m.40 and 52), Karalek (m.45) for Kielce.
partial: 3-3, 5-6, 9-9, 14-12, 16-13, 18-13 (rest), 19-14, 20-17, 22-20, 26-23, 29-25 and 32- 28 (end).
incidents: Match corresponding to the second day of Group B of the 2022-2023 Champions League played at the Palau Blaugrana in Barcelona before 3,550 spectators.
The Barça animation group ‘Dracs’ returned to the stands of the Palau today and Carlos Ortega publicly thanked them at the end of the clash.