A resounding but bittersweet victory achieved by Motive.co Gijón last night at the Granollers stadium. Important because he clearly beat the Valles team, but sad because of the injury suffered by the central defender Cecilia Cacheda in the right knee, the same one that was broken last year. Cacheda is waiting to carry out the pertinent tests to find out the exact scope of it.
Cacheda’s injury made Marizza Faria take command of the team and it continued to function perfectly. Although the first minutes the attacks easily surpassed the defenses. It was the women from Gijón who first improved in this aspect, while they crushed the Granollers goal in actions from the ends in which both Paula Valdivia and Lucía Laguna were very successful. Little by little, Motive.co opened the gap taking advantage of a scoring break by the Catalans due to good defensive actions and several losses until they reached a seven-goal lead, 9-16, which Kofler reduced to six with a goal almost over the horn that marked the break. 10 of the 16 goals scored by the Gijón team in the first half came from the wingers, with five goals from Valdivia and another five from Laguna.
Gijón’s advantage increased at the start of the second, in which the Motive.co Gijón players maintained their good defensive level, which made the Catalans continue to make mistakes that allowed Cristina Cabeza’s men to play with an important advantage in the second half. score, up to 9 goals (11-20), which gave them enough peace of mind to control the game without struggling until the end.
With the game practically settled long before the final whistle, Cristina Cabeza gave minutes to all the players without there being any danger of adding the points at stake. If in the first half the goals came mainly from the wingers, in the second, in which the goalscoring capacity decreased, they were more distributed. Valdivia, one more game, ended up as the team’s top scorer, with eight goals, being seconded in that facet by the youngsters Lucía Laguna and Mina Novovic, with five each.
After this victory, the women from Gijón rise to sixth place, two points behind fifth, Aula Valladolid, but which has one more game already played.
Pending the injury of Cecilia Cacheda, a player who is having very bad luck, Motive.co still has another two games ahead before the end of the year, both will be at La Arena, the first on the 21st against a very difficult rival , Málaga Costa del Sol, which they had to face last week but the date had to be changed because the Gijon team is playing in European competition. The next one will be on the 28th against Elche, which this season is not being the powerful team of last season.
