He Lointek Gernika Bizkaia visit this Thursday to Kangoeroens Mechelen Belgian at the Heylen Vastgoed in Antwerp (8:00 p.m.) in the first leg of the Women’s Euro Cup playoff with the aim of getting on track to the round of 16. EITB will offer the match live, on ETB4 and also by streaming on eitb.eus.

It will be on Wednesday the 20th when a direct tie will be resolved in Maloste that is expected to be very even between a Gernika full of morale after finishing last weekend with undefeated status in the Perfumerías Avenida Women’s League and the great dominator of the league Belgian.

The Flemish team has won its nine games in the domestic competition and in Europe came second in a powerful and very close group led by the Turkish Besiktas ahead of Mechelen and the Greek Panathinaikos.

The staff led by Arvid Diels has several players with a past in the Women’s League such as Laura Resimont, Heleen Nauwelaerso and Paula Strautmane who together with the Finnish Elina Aarnisalo and the Americans Catherine Reese and Rae Burrell They form the main rotation.

Before traveling to Belgian lands, Lointek Gernika coach, Lucas Fernández, underlined the “excitement” and “ambition” with which they face this tie and their desire to “go as far as possible” in the second continental club competition.

Source: Eitb

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