Matchday 29 brings direct and dramatic duels
MADRID, 15 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Endesa League begins the last month of its regular season with the ‘playoffs’ zone open to surprises and the fight for salvation very hot, with matchday 29 this weekend in which Barça and Real Madrid will try to recover the flavor of victory and Coosur Betis and MoraBanc Andorra come out of relegation.
With all the teams in 28 games after catching up on the last pending during the week, the League faces the last six days with everything to decide. Barça has first place in their hands, with three more wins than Madrid, although the course is long for both of them, as was seen in their last performances.
The culé team, which lost to Unicaja on Thursday, visits a Casademont Zaragoza on Saturday, which is one of the five teams below that are in a victory fighting not to be relegated. The hands beat Monbus Obradoiro on Wednesday, the ninth, and with that faith they will receive a Barça team that begins its Euroleague playoff against Bayern Munich on Tuesday.
With the same challenge but without a cushion in the domestic league, Madrid will play Sunday at home against Río Breogán. Pablo Laso’s men lengthened their crisis against Bilbao Basket and, although they have that start of the continental challenge on Wednesday against Maccabi, they cannot neglect their second place, beyond fighting for the lead.
The whites are on 19 wins, one more than BAXI Manresa, Lenovo Tenerife, Valencia Basket and Joventut. The ‘Top 8’ can still go around a lot, just like the seeded positions. Manresa also gave in during the week against a ‘Breo’ who did not give up this noble fight in the year of his rise to the elite.
Pedro Martínez’s men will face UCAM Murcia on Sunday, a team that is in eighth place and that did not know how to win their last game either. The best moment up there is going through Lenovo Tenerife, fourth on the back of Giorgi Shermadini, and that visits Unicaja on Sunday that, after beating Barça, changes its goal of salvation for that of the ‘playoffs’.
In addition, Bitci Baskonia and Valencia Basket will play a direct duel in Vitoria within the ‘Top 8’, the Basques with less margin in 16 wins, and Joventut will try to recover from their last slip against an Urbas Fuenlabrada in search of tranquility. Gran Canaria and Surne Bilbao Basket will be a duel of contenders to keep the fight for the title crosses open until the end.
Below, the changing situation now burns Andorrans and Betis who will open the day this Saturday in a duel with dramatic overtones. With one more victory, the option of taking advantage of this direct duel to add a double victory is for Zaragoza and for Obradoiro and San Pablo Burgos, another crucial direct duel.
–PROGRAM OF THE DAY 29.
-Saturday 16.
MORABANC ANDORRA – COOSUR REAL BETIS 18:00 h.
Daniel Hierrezuelo – Sergio Manuel – Alberto Baena.
HEREDA SAN PABLO BURGOS – MONBUS OBRADOIRO 18:00 h.
Antonio Conde – Juan de Dios Oyón – Raúl Zamorano.
YOUTH BADALONA – URBAS FUENLABRADA 8:45 p.m.
Oscar Perea – Luis Miguel Castillo – Carlos Merino.
CASADEMONT ZARAGOZA – BARÇA 20:45 h.
Jordi Aliaga – Javier Torres – Joaquin Garcia Gonzalez.
-Domingo 17.
REAL MADRID – BREOGÁN RIVER 12:30 p.m.
Fernando Calatrava – Francisco Spider – Andres Fernandez.
UNICAJA – LENOVO TENERIFE 12:30 h.
Carlos Peruga – Vicente Bultó – Fabio Fernández.
GRAN CANARIA – SURNE BILBAO BASKET 12:00 h.
Benjamin Jimenez – Martin Caballero – Hector Baez.
BITCI BASKONIA – VALENCIA BASKET 6:30 p.m.
Emilio Pérez Pizarro – Jorge Martinez – Alfonso Olivares.
BAXI MANRESA – UCAM MURCIA 8:00 p.m.
García González – Arnau Padrós Feliu – Iyán González.