OAR Coruña beat BM Sinfin 33-29 in the División de Honor Plata on Saturday at Balaídos. The visitors took the points after a match that swung back and forth, with neither side willing to let the other breathe. By the final whistle the gap was four goals, but the margin never felt comfortable for either side.
And here's the thing — this wasn't the result we were expecting. Our projection had Sinfin at home with 63 per cent confidence, but the match went the other way. Coruña found a rhythm in the middle period that Sinfin couldn't match, and that's where the game broke open.
Both sides came into this fixture on identical records: four games played, three wins, one draw, zero losses, six points each. Sinfin sat third before kickoff, Coruña fifth, but those positions meant less than the point difference. To be fair, both had been competitive in their last five — Sinfin lost narrowly to Burgos and Barcelona II, while Coruña dropped one against Puerto Sagunto back in May.
I watched the twentieth minute and remembered it because Coruña made their presence felt there. They switched the tempo, moved the ball quickly, and Sinfin's defence looked a half-beat slow. That's when the visitors started stringing together sequences that turned into goals, and Sinfin never quite got back on top of the game.
The win extends Coruña's unbeaten run and keeps them within touching distance of the leaders. Sinfin remain third but now face a tougher task to close the gap. Four games in, the table is still fluid, but this result shifts the balance slightly.
