Very tough Euroleague test for Valencia Basket on the FC Barcelona court

Valencia Basket men's team will try to change its recent dynamic in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague in one of the most difficult courts to do so, that of FC Barcelona, ​​in a top continental competition round 9 game (Friday 17, 20:30h, Palau Blaugrana, Movistar Plus+).

The taronja team will try to change its particular curse on this court, which it has not been able to win in any of its four previous visits in the Euroleague and its negative streak in games of this tournament on courts of Spanish opponents, which is five defeats in a row.

To do this, they will need to keep the positive aspects of their defeat on Tuesday and maintain the defensive performance that allows them to be the team that receives the fewest points in the competition. The precedent of this season is favorable to Valencia Basket, which three weeks ago won at La Fonteta in a Liga Endesa game by 71-68, although regarding that clash, the taronja team lost Harper and the blue and purple team recovered Laprovittola.

Coach Álex Mumbrú has moved the thirteen professional players he has available for this tour of Barcelona and Vitoria, with the absences of the injured Martin Hermannsson and Jared Harper.

Valencia Basket begins this ninth round in sixth position in the Euroleague with a balance of 5-3.

Rosters

FC BARCELONA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Oscar Da Silva

Alemania

Ala-pívot

2.06

3

Oriol Paulí

España

Alero

2.01

6

Jan Vesely

Rep.Checa

Pívot

2.10

8

Dario Brizuela

España

Escolta

1.88

10

Nikola Kalinic

Serbia

Alero

2.02

13

Tomas Satoransky

Rep.Checa

Base

2.01

14

Willy Hernangómez

España

Pívot

2.10

20

Nico Laprovittola

Argentina/Italia

Base

1.90

21

Álex Abrines

España

Escolta

1.98

22

Jabari Parker

Estados Unidos

Ala-pívot

2.03

23

James Nnaji

Nigeria

Pívot

2.12

31

Rokas Jokubaitis

Lituania

Base

1.93

44

Joel Parra

España

Alero

2.02

 

Roger Grimau

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

3

Nate Reuvers

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.11

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

7

Chris Jones

EE.UU/ARM

Base

1.88

8

Guillem Ferrando

España

Base

1.84

10

Damien Inglis

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.06

16

Stefan Jovic

Serbia

Base

1.98

21

Boubacar Touré

Senegal

Pívot

2.13

30

Kassius Robertson

Canadá/JAM

Escolta

1.90

32

Brandon Davies

EE.UU/UGA

Pívot

2.08

37

Semi Ojeleye

EE.UU/NIG

Alero

2.01

 

Injured list

 

 

 

0

Jared Harper

EE.UU

Escolta

1.78

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

Álex Mumbrú

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: ROCHA, DRAGOJEVIC, BITTNER