Meshkov Brest 29-33 Barça: Advantage in the tie

Important win ahead of the second leg of the EHF Champions League as Xavi Pascual's team took a 33-29 win over Meshkov Brest in a tight encounter in Belarus. The game started well with the blaugranes with Palmarsson and Makuc impressing as Barça took an early 8-4 lead.

Xavi Pascual's team managed to gain a six goal lead at one point but the home side fought back to make it 17-16 in Barça's favour at half time. 

In the second half the game remained a close affair with Barça managing to squeeze ahead at certain moments by two or three goals. However, with just a few minutes remaining the game was tied at 26-26. The blaugranes took control in the final minutes and Dika Mem, scorer of 10 goals in the game, added his final strike to make the final score 33-29 to Barça with the second leg to come at the Palau Blaugrana on Thursday 20 May. 

Match stats:

Meshkov Brest, 29
Barça, 33

Meshkov Brest: Pesic (-), Obranovic (1), Vailupau (11), Vranjes (3), Skube (3), Yurynok (4) y Santalov (3) –starting seven-, Budzeika (-), Matskevich (-), Usik (-), Shumak (3), Baranau (-), Razgor (-), Selviasiuk (-), Malus (1) and Silko (-).

Barça: Pérez de Vargas (-), Aleix Gómez (6), Thiagus Petrus (-), Dika Mem (10), Alex Pascual (-), Aron Palmarsson (5) y Ludovic Fabregas (4) –starting seven-, Möller (-), Mortensen (-), Sorhaindo (-), Dolenec (2), N’Guessan (3), Cindric (-), Makuc (1) and Frade (-).