MADRID, 3 One. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Real Madrid visit BAXI Manresa in an early match on matchday 17 of the Endesa League in a duel in which the whites, leaders, visit the Nou Congost fort while Unicaja and Casademont Zaragoza will fight for the victory in a postponed match of the matchday 16.
The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the Endesa League, which has to postpone and readjust several games almost every day. In fact, after postponing Barça-Manresa due to a Blaugrana outbreak and Joventut-Madrid due to an outbreak in the ‘Penya’, Manresa and Madrid will play early to adjust schedules.
Madrid, leader with 13 victories and only one defeat so far in the championship, and despite suffering firsthand the effects of COVID-19 with Pablo Laso and several infected players, has just won his last game in Murcia (71 -80) almost half a month ago.
With the WiZink Center Classic postponed, the whites now visit somewhat recovered and above all with days of work to a BAXI Manresa that is still in the access area to the Copa del Rey and that, on its track in the Nou Congost, has lost only one game of the six disputed, against Valencia Basket. And they come from reaping two successes in a row.
On the other hand, the Unicaja-Casademont Zaragoza match is also played on Tuesday 4th, initially scheduled for last Sunday and corresponding to matchday 16 of the Endesa League. Despite the outbreak on the Aragonese side, the duel can already be played.
Unicaja and Zaragoza are even in the table with 6 victories, although those of Malaga still have one more game pending. This direct duel is key in the qualifying aspirations for the Cup and although Unicaja reaches it with two losses in line, Zaragoza is in the opposite scenario with two wins in a row.
–PROGRAM.
-Tuesday 4.
UNICAJA – CASADEMONT ZARAGOZA (Day 16 / 20.30 hours)
Juan Carlos García González – Rubén Sánchez Mohedas – Andrés Fernández Carretero
BAXI MANRESA – REAL MADRID (Matchday 17 / 21.00 hours)
Carlos Cortés – Juan de Dios Oyón – Iyán González