Barceloneta continued its series of big wins in the Spanish League. In the 20th round, the reigning champion beat Mataro – 16:8.
Barceloneta recorded 18 wins in as many games and has an impressive goal difference. Barceloneta has scored 296 and has conceded 97 goals so far for a + 199 goal difference.
Sabadell has the second-best goal-difference at the moment (259:133), Barcelona is third by this criterion (242:141). These three teams are far from the others. Terrassa, which is in 4th place, has scored 217 and has conceded 197 goals since the start of the season.
2021/22 Spanish League, Day 20
Mataro – Barceloneta 8:16 (0:2, 3:5, 3:4, 2:5)
Mataro:Campos 3, Pardon 1, Nunez 1, Arizaga 1,Codina 1, Daura 1.
Barceloneta: Munarriz 5,Larumbe 4, Asensio 2, Famera 2, Granados 1, Perrone 1, Bruce Scott 1.
Barcelona – Real Canoe 11:7 (4:4, 4:0, 1:1, 2:2)
Barcelona: Ramon 3, G.Garcia 2, Tahull 2, Mallarach 2, Goma 1, Frigola 1
Real Canoe: V.Fernandez 2, Romero 2, Alcon 2, Lema 1,
Tenerife – Catalunya 12:10 (3:0, 3:3, 2:2, 4:5)
Tenerife: Borovcic-Kurir 4, Susak 3, Salvador 2, San Martin 2, Mercado 1.
Cataunya: Alvarino 2, Chmyr 2, Gomez De La Puente 2, Gomila 1, Kuznetsov 1, Sousa 1, Santiveri 1,
Terrassa – Mediterrani 15:10 (4:2, 5:3, 3:2, 3:3)
Terrassa: Barroso 4, Flores 3, Aguilar 2, De Lera 2, Chico 1, G.Fernandez 1, Alarcon 1, Prieto 1.
Mediterrani: Galeev 2, Ja. Perez 2, Prat 2, Minguell 1, Jo.Perez 1, Vasin 1, A. Garcia 1
Navarra – Rubi 9:7 (4:3, 4:1, 0:1, 1:2)
Navarra:Arriazu 3, Franco 2, Beltran 1, J.Fernandez 1, Contreras 1, Basterrica 1.
Rubi: Vasic 2, Mejias 1, Karaman 1, Carrasco 1, Pina 1, Blanquez 1.
Played earlier
Sant Andreu – Sabadell 14:15 (2:1, 4:4, 4:5, 4:5)
Sant Andreu:Bargallo 5, Yanez 2, Paul 2, Bustos 2, Frigola 1, Montes 1, Bofill 1.
Sabadell:Averka 5, Sanahuja 4, Teclas 2, Valera 1, Banicevic 1, Lopez-Escribano 1, Veich 1
Barceloneta, led by Alberto Munarriz, cruised to a win over Mataro. The champion had a 8:3 lead at halftime. At the beginning of the third period, Barceloneta went to 9:3 and killed Mataro’s last hope.
A game Barcelona – Real is “El Classico”, but in football. As for water polo, Barcelona is a favorite in the games against Real from Madrid (by the way, Real Canoe isn’t a section of FC Real). However, the encounter between Barcelona and Real Canoe in the 20th round offered a balanced battle throughout three quarters. But, the second period, in which Barcelona scored four unanswered goals, made the difference – 11:7.
Sabadell narrowly defeated Sant Andreu in the match that was played earlier, because Sabadell traveled to Italy this week to face Telimar in the LEN Euro Cup final.
Terrassa recorded a comfortable 15:10 victory over Mediterrani.
Bottom-placed Navarra, finally, recorded its first win in the season, beating Rubi 9:7. Navarra earned a crucial advantage in the first half (8:4).
Tenerife defeated Catalunya. The players from the Canary Islands started very well, they led 3:0 in the first quarter. Later, they stretched the margin to four. But, Catalunya came very close at the finish of the match (9:10 and 10:11). Still, the visitors couldn’t equalize. Mercado found the net in the last second for Tenerife’s 12:10 victory.
1.Barceloneta 18 – 54
2.Barcelona 19 – 49
3. Sabadell 20 – 48
4. Terrassa 20 – 43
5. Sant Andreu 19 – 33
6. Mediterrani 20 – 32
7. Mataro 20 – 29
8. Tenerife 19 – 21
9. Catalunya 19 – 15
10. Rubi 20 – 10
11.Real 20 – 9
12. Navarra 20 – 4
