Real Madrid begins its week of Turkish Passion
The Madrid team visits Ephes on Tuesday in its first match of a double Euroleague day that will end before Fenerbahce
MADRID, 3 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Real Madrid will start this Tuesday (18.30) before the Turkish Anadolu Efes Royal ambitions in the competition before a break for the King Copa dispute.
The Madrid team saw his progression braking last Friday in the continental tournament during his visit to a direct rival like As Monaco. The tight defeat by 77-73 not only prevented it from being placed in the ‘Top 4’ but also took him from the ‘top 6’ of a regular league that is very tight and matched.
In fact, the current runner -up of Europe follows a triumph of the fourth place, now in the hands of the French Paris Basketball, and to get among the top six, but it cannot be relaxed because there are still several rivals, including an Ephes before them The one who should not fail to move him away more and not to risk being out of the ‘top 10’ before repeating visit to Istanbul on Thursday, in this case before the powerful Fenerbahce of Sarunas Jasikevicius
Therefore, the Chus Matthew team comes something forced not to trip over home, where it seemed to have taken a better line against Salle Gaston Media. The double European champion is behind in the classification, two wins, but he was already able to beat him with some clarity (64-74) in Madrid and in the new basketball Development Center, he always usually gives his best measure and already his last visitor , Emporio EA7 Armani Milan Italian suffered it with a historic defeat (110-66).
Ephes is not solid this season and its irregularity can lead to another early elimination like the two previous seasons. Real Madrid will receive him after having lost six of his last seven games, a bad streak that arrived after having threatened to resurface with three triumphs in a row, all of them in the heat of his always passionate public and curiously with Tomislav Mijatovic on the bench and Not with a Luca Banchi who took the team in January and adds four losses in five clashes.
The Madrid team was redone to defeat in the Principality with a worked win in the Endesa League against Joventut (86-73), a match that brought the premiere of the American base Dennis Smith Jr taking advantage of Facundo Campazzo’s decline for his fatherhood. The Argentine will return for the visit to Istanbul where he could not have a beautiful duel with Shane Larkin, who did not play the weekend due to a problem in the foot and that is not at his level of yesteryear.
The other Madrid signing, the Angolan Bruno Fernando, already had minutes against As Monaco and the Joventut and will continue with his coupling to give more strength to an inner game where those of Chus Matthew seem superior and where there will be reunion with the French pivot Vincent Poirier. Serge Ibaka and Gaby Deck will be low and the Madrid coach who will have to decide who stays out of his ‘roster’ for a match between two teams that bet on an offensive basketball that in the case of Real Madrid stuck somewhat last Friday .
Data Sheet.
-Equipos.
Anadoli Efes: Thompson, Beaubois, Bryant, Osmani Y Poirier–Cosible Initial Quintet- Willis, Dozier Jr, Smits, Nwora, Oturu, Yilmaz Y Larkin.
Real Madrid: Campazzo, Musa, Hezonja, Garuba and Tavares –pose initial quintet–Llull, Abalde, Fernando, Smith Jr, Rathan-Mayes, González and Ndiaye.
–Arbitros: Hordov, Vilius and Boubert.
–PABELLÓN: Basketball Development Center.
-Hora: 18.30/Movistar+ Plus.