Bidasoa will fight from Group D to pass the group stage of the 2022-23 European League

Euskaraz irakurri: Bidasoak D Multzoan jardungo du Europako Ligako multzoen phasea gainditzeko asmoz

The draw for the group stage of the European League held this Thursday at the headquarters of the International Handball Federation has not been excessively harsh with Bidasoa-Irun has placed him in a Group D led by the mighty Fusche Berlinalthough with serious options to access the round of 16 among the top four.

Thus, Bidasoa and the aforementioned Germans of the Fusche They will share a group with Eurofarm Pelister of North Macedonia, the HC Engine ukrainian, the Skandeborg-Aarhus Danish and the Santa Milaneza Waters Portuguese.

The Gipuzkoan team already played the last edition of this competition against Fusche, whom they took to the limit in Artaleku (32-35) to clearly succumb in Germany (35-23), a score that illustrates the power of the current third-placed team in the league German and clear favorite for first place.

The Ukrainians of Zaporizhia Engine they dispute, due to the invasion of the country, their matches in the German second division, although their results do not count in the classification, and it is together with the holy waters (fifth position in the Portuguese league), the Eurofarm (club emerged from Eurofarm Rabotnik, which Bidasoa already faced during the 2019-2020 season) and the Skandenburg (sunk in the bottom table in the Danish league), the rivals for those qualifying positions against which the bidasotarras can compete as equals.

The quotes of this phase will start on October 25 and they will be prolonged until February 28with the break for the World Cup in Sweden and Poland in January 2023, so that the Basque team will have ten games to seek a goal that they already achieved last season in their first appearance with the new format of this European League, second step in continental handball after the Champions League.

The irundarra team obtained their classification last Tuesday in Trondheim (Norway) in an epic match that ended with a draw between the result of the first leg (30-27) and the second leg (28-25), the tie required 12 shots out of seven meters in which the only error, that of the local star Magnus Langeland, together with the success of Iñaki Cavero, awarded a great prize to the Gipuzkoan team.

EUROPEAN LEAGUE SCHEDULE:

1st day: Bidasoa – Aguas Santas (October 25)

Matchday 2: Füsche – Bidasoa (November 1)

Matchday 3: Skandeborg-Aarhus – Bidasoa (November 22)

Matchday 4: Bidasoa – HC Motor (November 29)

Day 5: Bidasoa – Eurofarm Pelister (December 6)

Day 6: Eurofarm Pelister – Bidasoa (December 13)

Day 7: Aguas Santas – Bidasoa (February 7)

Matchday 8: Bidasoa – Füsche (February 14)

Day 9: HC Motor – Bidasoa (February 21)

Matchday 10: Bidasoa – Skandeborg-Aarhus (February 22)