Valencia Basket opens a three home-games week at La Fonteta hosting Real Madrid

Valencia Basket returns to Fonteta to open a series of three home games in a row hosting Real Madrid (Tuesday 22, 8:30 p.m., Fonteta, DAZN/Movistar+ dial 64) in a Turkish Airlines EuroLeague round 9 game.

 

The Taronja squad will try to become strong at home and maintain its good line of results at Fonteta in European competition to leave behind the feelings of last week in which they fell in Bologna and Tenerife. To do this, our team will have to take advantage of the support of its fans to find the shot accuracy has lacked in the last two games and prepare for a physical battle under the basket against an opponent who is the second best in the tournament in rebounds and the second team that fewer rebounds concedes to its rivals.

 

Friday's game will tip the balance of confrontations between these two teams in European competitions (currently tied at five wins for each team) although the Taronja squad has good precedents and so far has been able to defend its court in the two previous visits of the white team in the Euroleague Regular Season.

 

Although coach Mumbrú confessed in the pre-game press conference that the team does not arrive at its best physical moment by having some players who are playing with problems or without rhythm having just come out of injury, the only confirmed sidelined players at this moment are Millán Jiménez (left ankle) and the long-term injured Martin Hermannsson.

 

Valencia Basket begins this round located in the 11th position with a 4-4 in the standings

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Jared Harper

EE.UU

Base

1.78

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

5

James Webb

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

7

Chris Jones

EE.UU/Armenia

Base

1.88

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

12

Jonah Radebaugh

EE.UU/MNT

Escolta

1.91

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

21

Kyle Alexander

Canadá/Jamaica

Pívot

2.08

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

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

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

11

Mario Hezonja

Croacia

Alero

2.02

13

Sergio Rodríguez

España

Base

1.91

14

Gabriel Deck

Argentina

Alero

1.98

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

Base

1.90

30

Eli Ndiaye

España

Pívot

2.04

31

Dzanan Musa

Bosnia

Alero

2.05

 

Chus Mateo

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: LOTTERMOSER, FOUFIS, ROSSI