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The only thing that differed was that we only had two training sessions instead of three. This happened because it was a national holiday on Thursday and as we don't have our own pavilion we didn't have a place to train.

Unlike last week, I managed to participate in the two training sessions that took place, but I still have pain in my knees.

We played against the last ranked team from our series.

We were favorites for this game, and we matched that favoritism well.

The game started 20 minutes late due to the fact that the A.D. Godim not having the coach, as he made the trip alone and had not yet arrived at the pavilion when the game would start.
This was the first time that happened to me in 20 years of practicing the sport.
However, I learned that, incredible as it may seem, there is no rule in the regulation related to the maximum time that a team has to wait until the other team loses by no-show, since the game could not start without the coach on the bench.

After these 20 minutes of delay, we started the game and quickly established our favoritism, since at 20 minutes the score was 12-1.
Due to this extended advantage and the fact that we have two games next week (Thursday against Estrela Vigorosa and Sunday against G.C. Tarouca) that could decide our qualification for the next phase with 3 games left to finish this 1st phase.
At halftime, the score was 17-3.

In the second half we rotated the whole team and as usual the A.D. Godim ended up improving his offensive effectiveness and with all the substitutions we made it was normal for us to end up lowering our concentration levels.

In the end, we won the game 35-17.

Now the focus is on the next game on Thursday against Estrela Vigorosa and then on Sunday against GC Tarouca.

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We are currently in first place on the league table, but we have one more game than the second place.

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