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Second day of the Universiade in handball which is played in Malaga until Sunday, brings us a derby between Spain and Romania. At yesterday's opening of the tournament, Romania defeated underdogs of the group, India 43-11, while Spain won ten seconds before the end of the game against Japan (27-26). The odds before the game are favoring Spain, mostly because of the home field advantage, but looking at the players, Romania deserve at least a similar position. Both teams are playing here with a sort of B teams, but Romania appear much more serious. Costica Buceschi is leading Romania, she is the assistant coach of their A team, and there are two players in the roster who played at the World Championship in Denmark at the end of last year (left back and one of the best defenders, Perianu, and right back Vizitiu), and there are two other players who played the qualifications for the European CHampionship (Dedu and Zamfirescu). Six players played at the last year's Universiade in Korean Gwagn, most of them are former junior players from generation 92 and 94 who were in Top 6 European teams at almost every final tournament. Spanish roster has some players who are not on the list of the Top 20 that are preparing for the Olympic games. Most of their players come from clubs Bera Bera and Mecalia Guardes, the best known players are right back Manaut and pivot Sempera, they have put together a team from generations '90, '92 and '94, who regularly lost to their Romanian peers in the past. They were down almost entire game against Japan yesterday, down by 2 two minutes before the ned. Unlike them, Romanians had a 'warm up' against India and Bucesci gave all his players a chance. Romania have a better team here, they are going into this game rested and they deserve to be the favorites to win.