The final in the fight for staying in Guadalajara and a spectacular battle for the runner-up spot.

Matchday 26, forty games ahead and a superlative struggle for the great goals of the season in NEXUS ENERGY ASOBAL League. This Saturday begins the most spectacular and decisive stretch of the professional competition, with HORNEO BM. Alicante-BM. Caserío Ciudad Real (20h, LALIGA +) as the first assault. Two teams (21 and 22 points, respectively) in the most relaxed area of the table, reaping the fruits of a course of evolution, final regularity and great peaks of performance, on the verge of being able to seal their permanence in the elite of Spanish men's club handball.

The fight for the runner-up will have a much greater intensity, with Bathco BM. Torrelavega-ABANCA Ademar León (Sunday, 18:30h, LALIGA +) as the direct duel this weekend. The 'Orange Squad', fourth, three points behind second place, seeks to make up for the defeat in matchday 25 against Cajasol Ángel Ximénez Puente Genil, and add two points against a team of Luis Puertas sixth, more than alive in the top part of the general classification. Dicorpebal Logroño La Rioja will defend with tooth and nail one more week its second position, in this case in the 'Match of the Day' against the Pontanos, precisely (Sunday, 19:30h, LALIGA + and RTVE Play).

Contrast of situations, same competitive spirit and promise to fight to the end for the two points at stake. Toni Malla's pupils are 13th after their last victory, with a single point of margin regarding the relegation zone. Fraikin BM. Granollers, third, on the other hand, will seek to continue putting pressure on Dicorpebal Logroño La Rioja from the Santiago Manguán (Saturday, 20:30h, LALIGA +). There awaits this Saturday a Tubos Aranda Villa de Aranda that continues to row to move away from the hot part of the NEXUS ENERGY ASOBAL League, once again putting the card of its fans and the fortress factor of the Aranda track. IRUDEK Bidasoa Irun and Recoletas At. Valladolid meet at the Polideportivo Huerta Del Rey (Sunday, 16:30h, LALIGA) to complete the struggle for the top positions. Álex Mozas' team, fourth, want to continue confirming the sensations of recent weeks with the goal of the runner-up between eyebrow and eyebrow.

Direct duel for permanence in Guadalajara

Relegation, beyond the already mentioned Cajasol Ángel Ximénez Puente Genil and the team of Javier Márquez, will focus on the direct duel between SANICENTRO BM. Guadalajara and Viveros Herol BM. Nava (Sunday, 19:30h, LALIGA +). Two points at stake that reach a dimension of maximum importance. The team from Guadalajara continues to cling to its options to continue wearing the ASOBAL handball seal for another year, looking to translate its good competitive moment into victories, such as the match of the previous round at ABANCA Ademar León's court. The pupils of Carlos Villagrán, 14th, share pressure, urgencies and illusion, which presents this as one of the great matches at the end of the NEXUS ENERGY ASOBAL League season.

Frigoríficos del Morrazo, with more oxygen after the victory of the last chapter of the professional competition, wants to continue moving away from relegation in the match against REBI Balonmano Cuenca, solid, 9th with 21 points (Saturday, 16:30h, LALIGA +). The visit of Bada Huesca to the Palau Blaugrana of a champion Barça (Saturday, 12:30, LALIGA +) completes the general picture of the passionate struggle to stay another season in the elite of Spanish men's club handball.