Barça wants to recover at the expense of leader Efes
BARCELONA, Jan. 9 (SportsFinding) –
Barça receives this Friday at the Palau Blaugrana –21.00 hours / DAZN– to the leader of the Euroleague, an Anadolu Efes Istanbul who was his executioner in the last 'Play-offs' and who arrive as leaders to the appointment, although in the first round the triumph was culé.
The Blaugranas stormed the Sinan Erdem Dome (64-74) on the first day of this Euroleague thanks to the 24 points of a Nikola Mirotic that came back to Europe in style. Now, absolute leader of the team, he hopes to help Barça to once again bend to a very solid Anadolu Efes.
The Turkish team leads the table with 14 wins and only 3 losses, the same as a Real Madrid who is a co-leader and one more win than Barça, who aspires to match Efes in the table. A duel matched, with morbid, with that still fresh memory of the Ottoman triumph in the 'Play-offs' of 2019.
The good run of Barça at home, where he has only lost against CSKA Moscow, is measured at the great moment in the form of Anadolu Efes in global and also as a visitor, since he has not only won on the Panathinaikos track and counts the rest of Exits for victories.
This time, Anadolu Efes will face Barça with Shane Larkin available, as the base missed the first duel. With its 20.2 points on average, it is the top scorer of the Turks, who also have Vasilije Micic (14.2 points on average) and faces known as those of exblaugranas Chris Singleton, Adrien Moerman or Tibor Pleiss.
They arrive willing to win at Barça de Nikola Mirotic (18.8 points on average), although Svetislav Pesic still does not know if he can count on Brandon Davies (with a bruised ankle), Àlex Abrines (knee discomfort) or Cory Higgins, with a flu process that made him lose defeat, on the last day, on the track of Baskonia (76-74).
DATA SHEET.
–EQUIPMENT.
BARÇA: Hanga, Kuric, Claver, Mirotic and Tomic – possible initial five; Davies, Ribas, Smits, Oriola, Abrines, Delaney, Bolmaro, Higgins.
ANADOLU EFES ISTANBUL: Larkin, Anderson, Micic, Singleton and Pleiss – possible initial five; Beaubois, Balbay, Sanli, Moerman, Tuncer, Peters, Simon.
– ARBITRATORS: Ryzhyk, Rocha and Petek.
– PAVILION: Palau Blaugrana.