L’Schio, the rival of Spar Girona (20.00) in a key match of this first bubble of the Euroleague, already tasted on Tuesday what bread is given when you face a world team likeEkaterinburg. The Italians, who will open the second day today in Fontajau (17.00) against TTT Riga, could not find arguments to counter the game of Stewart, Torrens, Quigley and Vandersloot, and fell by an undisputed 83-61. Today the powerful Russian team is the rival of Uni (20.00). If Riga’s level of demand on Tuesday was so high that the match was not resolved until the last second, this evening’s will be even more so. “We have to play an exceptional game,” said Alfred Julbe after a recovery session without a physical load in Fontajau.
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At the moment, the plan for Spar Girona is being fulfilled. Riga had to be beaten, and it was done, even though they suffered until they saw the triple of the Latvian victory in Thomas fail, on the horn. “The most deserving thing of the first game was that when Riga was at an exceptional level and it was likely that we would go to the break losing 12 or 14 we knew how to get muddy and fight what it took for that bad moment of ours to be as minimized as it was. possible. In the second half we recycled and played better basketball. On Ekaterinburg, the Uni coach said that “the first thing we have to do is learn, see what has taken them where they are in the individual and collective field”, and then admitted that “we will have to ‘to be exceptional and very successful from the outside because under the basket they are very intimidating’. In this sense, in the few hours he had to prepare the game he wanted to “see what moves can hurt them and how we can reduce their offensive qualities.” Julbe, of course, despite going all out, also warned that Uni “should try to make the wear and tear high but not negative in the face of Friday’s key match.”
It will not be the first time that Spar Girona will face Ekaterinburg in Fontajau, and the precedent is still in the memory of many of the 1,500 fans who followed that match live in November 2015. Uni had just won. the League a few months before with Roberto Íñiguez on the bench and this had opened the door for him to make his Euroleague debut. In the group stage, one of the rivals was the powerful Russian team, with whom they had also met in pre-season friendlies taking advantage of their stay in Platja d’Aro. Uni rubbed the feat, losing by a tight 71-76. The brutal performance of Diana Taurasi (36 points) did the rest, although her compatriot Chelsea Gray, in one of her last matches before leaving for Turkey, also excelled with 20. Gray has returned this season to Girona. Taurasi does not compete in the winter because the US wants to book her for the Games. Today will open with Riga-Schio, a match between the two teams that started the bubble of Fontajau with defeat, from 17.00.
On the other hand, Perfumerías Avenida made its debut in group A of this Euroleague express yesterday. Postponed their duel against Izmit, Roberto Iñíguez’s girls crushed Nadezdha by 42-70. Today they have a day off and tomorrow they will close this phase against Dynamo Kursk in Istanbul.
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