The ambition of Leyma before the discovery of Cantabria

With the classification for play For the mathematically assured title and the inalienable goal of being at least fifth, Leyma today faces one of the most accessible games of the five remaining until the end of the regular season. Play at home against Cantabria (12:30 p.m., LaLiga Sports), the newly minted team that has become the revelation of the current season, occupies the eleventh place in the table and is already saved, after Juaristi’s defeat last Friday against Palencia.

Torrelavega is a team that also has three ex-Leyma players who know the strengths and weaknesses of Coruña well. At different times, the orange-white jersey was defended by Dago Peña (the last days of a professional basketball player living in Cantabria), Bulić (the leader in the promotion his team achieved last season) and Mikel Sanz. He will be ahead today.

Despite the difference in the standings of seven wins in favor of the Coruñas, Leyma coach Diego Epifanio does not want to relax after achieving the first goal of entering the play and warned of the danger his rival has at home.

“We are happy with the placement, and now we have to focus on working for this match against a team that plays very well at home. In addition, they already showed us in the first round, here in A Coruña, that they are a team that scores a lot – Leyma won 109-95 – so they will require a huge defensive effort and concentration from us. . In this league, it is already difficult to win abroad, but Cantabria is a place where, although this is their first experience in LEB Oro, it is one of the most complicated”, comments the coach of Burgos.

Thus, Epifanio was full of praise for the team prepared by David Mangas: “It is a team that is very well armed, that managed to capture the identity that its coach wants on the field, that plays very quickly and at the first moment. seconds is capable of generating advantages, and above all it has very well defined roles. Defensively, they are the team in the competition that steals the most balls, which will require us to try to reduce the number of turnovers, which is one of our problems this season. We will see if we are able to protect the ball better against an opponent who does a very good job defensively. So, the goal must be to first steal balls, and above all to prevent the game from going to very high scores,” he warns.

In this way, with the first two places unattainable and a small advantage over the sixth, Leymo, the third, starts today the last part of the regular competition knowing that the next three duels will be crucial to create a sufficient gap and not play the first five places, which give the option of field factors in play in the last two games. And that is that on the penultimate day, Diego Epifanio’s chosen team receives Palencia, the second and which may be fighting for the title, and on the last day they play in Burgos, a direct rival in the fight for that fifth place. The Galicians won’t be able to win today alone because they will have the support of a group of cheering fans who traveled to Torrelavega to cheer on the team in this affordable match.