Yabusele and Heurtel return home to extend the madridista streak
MADRID, 15 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Real Madrid will begin a new double day of the Regular Phase of the Euroleague 2021-2022 with a complicated visit this Tuesday to the Astroballe de Lyon (8:00 p.m.) where an ASVEL Villeurbanne awaits him that has started with good feelings and does not want sentimentality in the returns of Guerschon Yabusele and Thomas Heurtel.
The power forward and the military base last season in the French team, the second a few months after leaving Barça, and now they return without margin for sentimentality in search of extending the Madrid team’s streak at home and staying in the high positions .
The ten-time European champion is with a balance of 7-2 before a week that will close with the visit of the Red Star and aspires to sign a double that brings him closer to the ten triumphs and that will help him to put land of through the fight for the ‘playoff’.
Real Madrid will land in Lyon after their victories in Munich against Bayern and at the WiZink Center against Zalgiris and with the need to put aside the doubts that they can leave at home and that rekindled this Sunday in the Endesa League with a suffered victory in Fuenlabrada thanks to a triple on the horn of a Heurtel who will want to take advantage of this emotional reinforcement to continue growing in a direction of play even without Williams-Goss or Alocen.
In addition, ASVEL, despite losing important players such as Yabusele or Norris Cole, now in Unicaja, has started the continental campaign at a good level and finds itself with a balance of 6-3, so it knows that a victory would allow it to reach to the whole of Pablo Laso.
At the Astroballe he is showing solidity with four victories, including against CSKA and Efes, and only one loss against Maccabi, and will host Real Madrid after losing in Belgrade and ending a positive streak of three consecutive wins.
“It is mandatory to be very prepared physically and mentally against ASVEL because they can take you out of the game due to their physical exuberance. They have a good number of victories in the Euroleague and it will be a difficult game. The team has changed compared to last year, with new players and roles, so it is a different match from last season, “Laso warned in statements to ‘RMTV’, aware of the powerful physique of his rival.
The first mission of the Madrid team will be to try to stop the impact of point guard Elie Okobo, one of the revelations of this Euroleague, where he is the most valued and the top scorer with more than 19 points per game. On the inside, Tavares and Poirier will have to deal with Fall’s strength in a team that also includes Kostas, the younger brother of the star Giannis Antetokounmpo.
DATASHEET.
–EQUIPMENT.
ASVEL VILLEURBANNE: Okobo, Jones, Kahudi, Howard and Fall – possible starting five – Knight, Diot, Lacombe, Gist, Antetokounmpo, Stratzel, Osetkowski and Houinsou.
REAL MADRID: Abalde, Causeur, Taylor, Yabusele and Tavares –possible initial quintet– Heurtel, Llull, Rudy Fernández, Poirier, Hanga, Núñez, Vukcevic and Ndiaye.
–ÁRBITROS: Pukl, Rocha and Nikolic.
– PAVILION: Astroballe.