All the eyes will be focused on the games of Barcelos and Barcelona, which will try to overturn the standing. They need only a victory to qualify against, respectively to Porto and Benfica, two of the most convincing teams in the first match of this first phase of Euroleague. The three spanish teams, Noia, Reus and Liceo greet the dream to reach the Euroleague Semifinals because the standing condemns all three to the elimination. Only six teams now are still hooked to the qualification, but Porto, Sporting, Oliveirense and Benfica have the best chance to reach the last phase. Today the best game of the second matchday was Noia-Barcelos, which ended with an impressive tie (5-5). 10 goals in this exciting game, where the young Manruba scores again two goals and for Barcelos, the answer was from Miguel Roca (three goals) :For the Portugueses, the only chance to reach the first final four will be to beat Porto. Oliveirense, instead, has shown one the best performance in this competition, defeating Reus for 5 to 1, thanks to the goals of the two argentine Martinez and Ferruccio (both scored 2 goals). Benfica won for 7-2 against Liceo and made a big step for the qualification. Three the goals for Diogo Rafael but the “eagle” team showed on the rink one of the best hockey in the competition.
EUROLEAGUE – First Phase – April, 9-10-11 in Luso (Portugal)
2nd matchday – Saturday 10th April 2021 (local time)
h 12.00 – Match #02 – Group A – CE Noia x OC Barcelos = 5-5
OCB: Acevedo, Querido, Pereira K, Gimenez D, Rocha – Ventura, Lorenco, Guimaraes, Pereira T, Ferreira – Coach Neto
Noia: Fernandez J, Pla, Ferrer, Costa, Manrubia – Ballart, Pujadas, Salvado, Zapater – Coach Lopez F
Scorers: 1st 4’35” Ferrer (N), 5’34” Rocha (B), 14’31” Costa (N), 18’28” Manruba (N) – 2nd: 4’21” Querido (pen) (B), 8’16” Gimenez (dir.shot) (B), 12’23” Rocha (B), 18’58” Costa (N), 20’01” Manrubia (dir.shot) (N), 22’48” Rocha (B)
Penalties: 2nd: 11’14” Costa (2′) (N) and Gimenez (2′) (B)
h 15.00 – Match #05 – Group B – Reus Deportiu x UD Oliveirense = 1-5
Reus: Ballart, Bancells, Salvat, Julia, Rodriguez – Najera, Castro, Rojas, Gimenez, Montero – Coach Garcia J
UDO: Puigbi, Hugo, Silva J, Torra, Moreira – Bargallo J, Ferruccio, Martinez L, Magalhaes H, Nelson F – Coach Pereira P
Scorers: 1st: 1’27” Salvat (R), 20’08” Ferruccio (O), 22’58” Martinez L (O) – 2nd: 1’17” Martinez L (O), 17’46” Torra (dir.shot) (O)
Penalties: 2nd: 7’46” Rodriguez (2′) (R)
h 18.00 – Match #08 – Group C – Deportivo Liceo x SL Benfica = 2-7
Liceo: Grau C, Di Benedetto R, Platero, Torres, Adroher – Carballeira, Oruste, Grau M, Ciocale, Rodriguez M – Coach Copa
SLB: Henriques, Neves V, Rafael D, Ordonez, Pinto G – Pinto G, Vieira, Rampulla, Aragones, Barros – Coach Dominguez
Scorers: 1st 6’01” Rafael (pen) (B), 6’53” Neves V (B), 18’33” Di Benedetto R (L), 20’59” Pinto G (B), 24’37” Rafael (B) – 2nd: 12’19” Rafael (pen) (B), 13’02” Aragones (B), 14’29” Pinto (dir.shot) (B)
STANDINGS
Group A: FC Porto 3 points [+3], OC Barcelos 1 point [0], CE Noia 1 point [0]*
Group B: UD Oliveirense 3 points [+4], Sporting CP 3 points [+2], Reus Deportiu 0 [-6]*
Group C: SL Benfica 3 points [+5], Barça 1 point [0], Deportivo Liceo 1 point [-5] *
* not qualified to Final Four
3rd matchday – Sunday 11th April 2021 (local time)
h 14.00 – Match #03 – Group A – OC Barcelos x FC Porto
LIVE TV Porto Canal – LIVE Streaming WSE TV
h 17.00 – Match #06 – Group B – UD Oliveirense x Sporting CP
LIVE TV Sporting TV – LIVE Streaming WSE TV
h 20.00 – Match #09 – Group C – SL Benfica x Barça
LIVE TV Barça TV & Benfica TV – LIVE Streaming WSE TV
Photo Credit, Antonio Lopes (Liceo-Benfica)
LIVE COVERAGE
All nine matches will be broadcasted live on many platforms. All the TV rights in this season are left free to the local organizers and in this case, the production is entrusted to HockeyGlobal. They will stream to their Facebook and Youtube; instead, the new WEBTV of World Skate Europe. will show by https://europe.worldskate.tv with the portuguese voice of Josè Santos.
In television, the Euroleague first phase will be shown through the Portuguese channels, Benfica TV, Porto Canal, Sporting TV and the Spanish, Barça TV, Esports3 (TV3 Catalunya) and Tv Galicia
After the matches, you will find the Highlights in our WebTV and also in our new Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/EURORINKHOCKEYTV
SPECIAL COVERAGE FOR WSEUROPE-RINKHOCKEY WEBSITE
WSE-RH will follow with special coverage in social network and in the section of WS Europe Cup www.wseurope-rinkhockey.org/euroleague with the official photos of Antonio Lopes.
In our Social Networks will be added special contents from the rink.
Every Match will be covered from our OFFICIAL LIVESCORING in multi-language with all the official statistics and event during the game.
OFFICIAL HASHTAGS -> #okeuro #okluso
