The league break is now history, although for the little ones there are still a few days left to rejoin the usual school activity. The Challenge Women’s League It had its impasse, not like the top flight, and now the players return with their batteries charged after a few days with the family to face the second half of the season, despite the fact that it started just two months ago. The first stumbling block for CAB Estepona Garden of the Costa del Sol it will be Melilla Sport Capital La Salle (7:45 p.m.), who finished 2022 coming out of relegation and beginning to show that by squad and budget his place in the table is higher.
The team from Estepona faces the match against the Lasallian team “with great enthusiasm”, as he explained Alberto Bolet -coach of Junior and Nacional who, since the change in the bench, has been part of the senior women’s staff- in the preview of the clash, emphasizing that it will be a “tough and very different match from the first round, since both squads have changed” since the teams met in the postponed duel in Melilla, since sarah castro has left the team to sign in Zamora, Ana Pocek could not be from the game due to illness and the team from Melilla was notn Patricia Benet ni Sofie Tryggedsson.
Bolet did not hide that “the victory against Paterna healed injuries and helped to recover sensations”, although it was only one match and the objective is clear: “to endorse it in this match” against Melilla Sport Capital La Salle with which the second round of the Women’s Challenge League. Regarding the CAB Estepona Jardín on the Costa del Sol, the coach assured that the break was good, since several players were “touched or injured” in the final stretch of the year. “It can be said that we are learning from the changes that have occurred in the squad and coaching staff, we are adapting to them and they to us,” Bolet explained before stressing that the key is to “recover sensations.”
The meeting has been designated by the club as Children’s Day, so all minors who come to the Pineda will not only have free admission, but will also receive a gift from the Estepona entity.
A rival of second rounds
Melilla Sport Capital La Salle is an old acquaintance for the Estepona team, as both teams coincided in what was their first season in LF2. On 20/21 the team trained by Pauli Puerto He reached the middle of the competition with four victories, the same ones he currently has in his locker, and won nine of his 13 games in the second round. Last season they repeated a similar feat: after the first 13 games their balance was 5-8 and they finished the regular season 18-8, qualifying for the promotion phase and not achieving the same due to a triple on the buzzer in the extension of Alba Pena (Adareva).
The Lasallian team lost before starting the league Aminata Traore due to injury during the World Cup and later his top scorer, Conchi Satorre, she requested to leave the club and currently plays in the Endesa Women’s League. They made up for those two absences with the arrival of the Valencian base patricia benet and the Danish Sofie Tryggedsson, what did that Bojana Stevanovic return full-time to the power forward position. A squad that has had to reinvent itself and that if necessary to meet objectives will surely have some more movement before the market closes.
