Valencia Basket opens the 7DAYS EuroCup second leg visiting Promitheas Patras

Valencia Basket opens the second leg of the 7DAYS EuroCup Regular Season visiting the Promitheas Patras’ court for the first time in its continental history (Wednesday 19, 6:30 p.m., Dimitris Tofalos Arena, DAZN) in a round 10 game that It is clearly marked by the roster that the taronja team has been able to make to face this clash.

 

In a season in which Joan Peñarroya's men have had to overcome and have competed despite all kinds of physical adversities, a new challenge will come in Greece that will be even more difficult for a depleted squad but that wants to extend its current streak of victories.

 

With five players isolated in their homes after testing positive for COVID-19 (Bojan Dubljevic, Klemen Prepelic, Jaime Pradilla, Xabi López-Arostegui and Jasiel Rivero) and Víctor Claver also sidelined due to a left foot injury, the team left last night heading to Greece with an expedition made up of the six pro-players available (Labeyrie and Dimitrijevic return from the game in Ulm after both overcoming COVID-19) and five players from the second team: Millán Jiménez, Guillem Ferrando, Gonzalo Bressan, Alejandro Bellver and Rafa Vila.

 

Despite these difficulties, the taronja squad will try to maintain their good run as visitors in the 7DAYS EuroCup (they have won in their last three away games) and break the bad dynamic they have in Greece, where they have lost in eight of their last nine visits. In the first and only historical precedent between these two teams, the first leg game, the victory was taronja by a score of 92-82. Valencia Basket currently occupies the third position in group B of the 7DAYS EuroCup with a balance of 6-3.

 

Rosters

PROMITHEAS PATRAS

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Kendrick Ray

EE.UU

Base

1.88

2

Jerai Grant

EE.UU

Pívot

2.05

3

Abdul Gaddy

EE.UU

Base

1.91

4

Dario Hunt

EE.UU

Pívot

2.06

7

Dimitris Agravanis

Grecia

Ala-pívot

2.08

8

Nikolaos Gkikas

Grecia

Base

1.85

9

N. Rogkavopoulos

Grecia

Alero

2.01

11

Trevis Simpson

EE.UU

Escolta

1.93

12

Angelos Lagios

Grecia

Alero

2.02

13

Mihajlo Andric

Serbia

Alero

2.02

77

Athanasios Bazinas

Grecia

Escolta

1.94

80

Georgios Tanoulis

Grecia

Pívot

2.10

 

Ilias Zouros

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Neno Dimitrijevic

Macedonia del N.

Base

1.90

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

8

Guillem Ferrando

España

Base

1.84

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU/Eslovenia

Pívot

2.13

12

Gonzalo Bressan

Argentina/Italia

Pívot

2.05

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

34

Rafael Vila

España

Alero

1.98

42

Alejandro Bellver

España

Escolta

1.95

99

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.05

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

Joan Peñarroya

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: Leandro Lezcano, Josip Radojkovic, Nick Van Den Broeck