Barça B and Noia Portus Apostoli faced off as the visitors looked to solidify their advancement to the promotion play off. The Galicians have already mathematically advanced to the play offs in an unforgetful quest to the elite of Spanish futsal.
The away side denied the Blaugrana subsidiary of three points, making it 10 defeats this campaign for Barça's second team, with a 5-3 victory that was identical to the reverse match last month.
Located in the northwest of the country, Noia only have a 600 stadium capacity which is one of the lowest in the first two divisions, reflecting their population of almost 15,000 inhabitants.
The newly emerging futsal team are looking to make unprecedented history, to promote themselves to the top flight. From 2008, the Galicians settled in the Second Division B for nine straight seasons but were promoted in 2017 to the second highest national league category to deplete their agonising monotony.
An extremely remote place for teams to travel but this week Noia trekked themselves to Catalonia where they confronted a youthful Barça B side that sit 6th in the table. They lost all their games in March including against their opponents.
There will be no need for the Spanish Second Division of applying the best result or goal difference rule to decide the league, as Noia are comfortably in pole position and easily exploited the Catalans, committing more to attacking especially when they have only let in 47 goals throughout this season, remarkably the least of any side.
Scoring two consecutive goals to practically end the game in Barcelona, they hold an impeccable margin at the top as they reached half a century of points. Union Africa Ceuti, founded in 1930, are completely out of sight but will be the main contender for Noia especially taking into account that they only picked up a draw from two games against these opponents.
The club coaches appeared in a pre-match press interview expressing their main objective, "we need to remain competitive, we are ambitious and demanding, and we have to remain so. We are not in a position to let go, it is important to reach that historic moment (Play Off) in the best possible way. They continued to say, "since the first training of this week no one has slowed down and we are focused. We want to get to the Play Off with good dynamic, and that happens by working every day."
Noia need to hold exceptional equanimity going into the PlayOffs, which will ultimately decide the minuscule club's exciting fate.
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