High altitude duel in La Fonteta with the visit of Real Madrid

Valencia Basket men's team returns to La Fonteta to face Real Madrid (Friday 12, 9:00 p.m., Fonteta, #Vamos) in a game that will close the round 32 of the Endesa League.

 

The taronja squad will try to extend its good dynamics in national competition at La Fonteta (where has won ten of its last eleven acb games) to protect the eighth position and add one of the two victories needed to guarantee the ticket to the Playoffs without having to depend on other results.

 

Although the atmosphere of the big nights is expected with tickets practically sold out, it will not be easy against an opponent against whom Valencia Basket have lost in the four previous games played this season (although in the last two games they have lost by very small margins) and to whom they have not been able to win in a Regular Season game at La Fonteta for more than a decade (the white team has won in their last eight visits to the Taronja fiefdom in the ACB Regular Season).

 

Real Madrid will be the first opponent against which Valencia Basket reaches the figure of 90 games in the Endesa League to remain our most frequent opponent in this competition.

 

Regarding last week's game in Manresa, Jasiel Rivero accumulates a little more rhythm but the same five sidelined players due to injury could be repeated (Sam Van Rossom, Klemen Prepelic, Xabi López-Arostegui, Jared Harper and Millán Jiménez), so the squad will be completed by a player from L'Alqueria del Basket.

 

Valencia Basket begins this round located in the 8th position of the Endesa League with a record of 16-15.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

5

James Webb

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

7

Chris Jones

EE.UU/Armenia

Base

1.88

12

Jonah Radebaugh

EE.UU/MNT

Escolta

1.91

13

Shannon Evans

EE.UU/Guinea

Base

1.85

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

21

Kyle Alexander

Canadá/Jamaica

Pívot

2.08

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

50

Sergio De Larrea

España

Base

1.98

55

Lucas Marí

España

Base

1.97

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

0

Jared Harper

EE.UU

Base

1.78

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

Álex Mumbrú

Entrenador

 

REAL MADRID

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Nigel Williams-Goss

EE.UU

Base

1.91

1

Fabien Causeur

Francia

Alero

1.96

3

Anthony Randolph

EE.UU/SLO

Ala-pívot

2.11

5

Rudy Fernández

España

Alero

1.96

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

8

Adam Hanga

Hungría

Alero

2.00

11

Mario Hezonja

Croacia

Alero

2.02

13

Sergio Rodríguez

España

Base

1.91

17

Vincent Poirier

Francia

Pívot

2.13

21

Petr Cornelie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.11

22

Walter Tavares

Cabo Verde

Pívot

2.20

23

Sergio Llull

España

Escolta

1.90

28

Guerschon Yabusele

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.01

30

Eli Ndiaye

España

Pívot

2.04

31

Dzanan Musa

Bosnia

Alero

2.05

 

Chus Mateo

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: Antonio Conde, Arnau Padrós, Cristóbal Sánchez