Valencia Basket reach the Top 16 halfway hosting Crvena Zvevda mts Belgrade at Fonteta

Valencia Basket concludes the first leg of the 7DAYS EuroCup Top 16 hosting Crvena Zvevda mts Belgrade (Wednesday 16, 8:45 pm, Fonteta, Teledeporte website, delayed 01: 00h) in a match in which it will try to maintain the unbeatenness at its own court in this competition to extend the winning streak (six wins in a row) and remain unbeaten in this second phase of the European tournament. For this, the taronja squad will have to beat a rival who has won in its last two visits to the Fonteta, although the precedents against rivals of this nationality are favorable to the taronja team by 5-2.

 

Captain Rafa Martinez could play his 200th match in European competitions on the same night in which Guillem Vives can become the tenth player to reach 250 games played with Valencia Basket. Coach Jaume Ponsarnau again has 13 of his available players, with Fernando San Emeterio (who is still recovering from a grade 1 hamstring injury) as the only sidelined player for the game against the Serbs Valencia Basket leads the Group G of this Top 16 with a 2-0 in its standings

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Sergi García

España

Base

1.93

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

8

Antoine Diot

Francia

Base

1.93

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Will Thomas

EE.UU/Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.03

13

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

17

Rafa Martínez

España

Escolta

1.90

21

Matt Thomas

EE.UU

Escolta

1.96

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.00

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

 

Lesión

 

 

 

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

CRVENA ZVEVDA MTS BELGRADE

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Joe Ragland

EE.UU/Liberia

Base

1.82

2

Aleksa Radanov

Serbia

Escolta

2.02

3

Filip Covic

Serbia

Base

1.78

5

Stratos Perperoglou

Grecia

Alero

2.03

7

Dejan Davidovac

Serbia

Alero

2.02

9

Nemanja Nenadic

Serbia

Escolta

1.97

11

Mouhammad Faye

Senegal

Ala-pívot

2.06

12

Billy Baron

EE.UU

Escolta

1.88

13

Ognjen Dobric

Serbia

Alero

2.00

14

Dusan Ristic

Serbia

Pívot

2.14

22

Borisa Simanic

Serbia

Ala-pívot

2.08

33

Maik Zirbes

Alemania

Pívot

2.08

50

Michael Ojo

EE.UU/Nigeria

Pívot

2.16

 

Milan Tomic

 

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: PETRI  MANTYLA, JURGIS  LAURINAVICIUS, TOMASZ TRAWICKI