Effective Friends Overtake Lusitania

The CAB men's team faced Lusitania in the Azores. Still no Bruno Cavalcante, away by injury, the Friends faced the game with great seriousness and willingness to win, despite having ahead another team, also very competitive. The match began in a very balanced way, as was predicted, with no team letting the other escape on the scoreboard. Defensively, the CAB was better, but could not turn this good work into an equally effective offensive provision. Lusitania, on the other hand, exploited with merit the opportunities for launching at its disposal. Consequently, at the end of the first half, the marker scored 12-16 in favour of Madeirans. In the second period, the CAB came in better, and, with one minute of play, had already increased the advantage for the ten points (12-22). Lusitania did not suffer, and in the middle of the period had reduced the Madeiran advantage to half (22-27), without giving any signs of slowing down. Until the end of the meeting, the CAB maintained superiority and reached the end of the partial to win by 32-42. On the return of the locker rooms, the CAB again presented a very strong collective sense. Lusitania demonstrated a very aggressive attitude and struck with great merit, creating threats from various areas of the field and showing that he has a very strong team. However, the Friends were also very defensive, and, from a good defensive posture, they won the partial by 17-25 and reached the end of the third period ahead by 49-67. In the last time, the Azorean team gave everything to undo the advantage of the CAB and even managed to assert itself in some phases of the meeting. The show was positive, with both teams contributing to the sport. However, until the end of the match, the Madeiran formation on protecting its advantage and maintaining the necessary serenity to win the game for the result of 74-92.