FC Barcelona Y Real Madrid are measured tonight at the Palau Blaugrana, in the second match of the final of the Endesa League. Of Classic Spanish basketball will be the new champion of the competition, which could be Barça if they manage to win today. The defeat of Pablo Laso’s men at the Wizink Center last Sunday, in the first game of the series, gives the Culé team the opportunity to sing the alirón tonight, in a series that is played in the best of three games. At 22:00 hours The second will begin and, if the Madridistas do not remedy it, the final match of this final of the Endesa League 20-21.
Direct: FC Barcelona – Real Madrid
Barcelona 35-19 Real Madrid
Abrines takes out the staff on the horn. Two free throws. Real Madrid is unhinged, outmatched in all aspects.
Barcelona 33-19 Real Madrid
Calathes basket, after a great pass from Davies. Real Madrid is not capable of reducing the differences.
Barcelona 31-19 Real Madrid
What a stopper from Poirier to Mirotic! Good minutes from the Frenchman, for the moment. Madrid continues to fail a lot and, thus, it is impossible to overcome the difference.
Barcelona 31-19 Real Madrid
Real Madrid wants to react. Basket now from Poirier, who finds a great pass from Rudy.
Barcelona 31-17 Real Madrid
Total display of Barcelona for the moment. Real Madrid exhausts possession, given the impossibility of hurting a great Barça.
Barcelona 29-15 Real Madrid
Kuric’s trippy that raises Barcelona’s maximum to 14.
First quarter: Barcelona 26-15 Real Madrid
Real Madrid defends the last two actions well and prevents Barça from leaving even more. Good defense in the last minutes for the whites, but the overwhelming start of culé and the Madrid drought put the game in front of those of Jasikevicius.
Barcelona 26-15 Real Madrid
Kuric raised the lead to +13, but reduced Alocen with a basket. Jasikevicius time, to face the last seconds of the quarter.
Barcelona 24-13 Real Madrid
Smits launches Barcelona again. Madrid works three times, but they have not made just baskets of two. The game is very complicated for them in this first quarter.
Barcelona 20-13 Real Madrid
Gasol basket to put Barcelona at 10, but Abalde answers, three.
Barcelona 18-10 Real Madrid
Triple of Causeur. The Gaul comes to the rescue.
Barcelona 18-7 Real Madrid
Calathes goes to seven points, with an illegal block from Tavares. The whites had improved in defense, but they are 2 of 8 in field goals.
Barcelona 16-7 Real Madrid
Real Madrid fails a lot. Nor can Llull, who fails three times.
Barcelona 16-7 Real Madrid
Tavares reduces the lead to nine. Good action from Madrid, although now Mirotic takes the free-kick from Tyus.
Barcelona 16-5 Real Madrid
For the Laso party and it is not for less. Triple of Calathes. The Madrid coach complains that the Catalans have been fully successful. Ask for more intensity.
Barcelona 13-5 Real Madrid
He has dated all of Barcelona, especially Mirotic. Two more points for him. Everything goes to the Catalans, nothing to the Madridistas. Great defense of those of Jasikevicius.
Barcelona 11-5 Real Madrid
Barcelona extended the advantage, but the whites reduced it with Tavares from the free kick. First points for the Cape Verdean.
Barcelona 7-0 Real Madrid
Five points from Mirotic and two for Higgins to start. Three arrivals from Madrid, which is not right.
22:00 – The game begins
The game starts at the Palau. BARCELONA 0-0 REAL MADRID.
21:59 – The starting quintets
The FC Barcelona leaves today with: Davies, Hanga, Mirotic, Higgins y Calathes. For his part, Real Madrid does it with: Tavares, Taylor, Abalde, Alocén and Garuba.
21:53 – Laprovittola will not play
Pablo Laso has spoken of the need to improve on the success and, above all, to defend well on the block. In addition, it has confirmed the absence of Nicolás Laprovittola, that it will not be due to not having passed the tests carried out in the last hours.
21:52 – The third game would be on Thursday
If he Real Madrid manages to win today, the madridistas will take the series to their third and final match, which would be played again at the Wizink Center. If it did, it would be played on Thursday at 10:00 p.m.
21:48 – Barcelona, before their great opportunity
The FC Barcelona Today you will have the opportunity to win the Endesa League. If they win at home, they will be proclaimed champions for the first time in seven years. They play at home, in front of their people and, what is more important, they took the first game on the court of the Real Madrid to add the first point of the final.
21:40 – Tavares, the best of Madrid on Sunday
Walter Tavares was the best player in the Real Madrid The last Sunday. The Cape Verdean made a double-double, with 16 points and 11 rebounds, which was insufficient for the Madridistas. Only Causeur and Rudy managed to add double digits, with 12 and 10 points, respectively. The whites today need the one who has been leading the team all season, in addition to the experience and contribution of Rudy, Llull, Causeur himself and also Garuba, who only signed one point.
9:30 pm – Whites need to improve
The Real Madrid was overwhelmed by the FC Barcelona in the first game of the series. However, the whites were superior in the first two quarters. Today they need to continue solid on the rebound and, above all, have a greater success in their shots from outside. The other day they were 29% correct in shots of three.
21:20 – Two victories for Real Madrid in the Classics
This season, the Classic Spanish basketball has been repeated seven times. The Real Madrid he was only able to win in two of them. In the Super Cup played at the beginning of the course they won by 72-67, while on matchday 30 of the League they did it by 85-87, in Barcelona. On the other hand, the Catalans won the two Euroleague games, the final of the Copa del Rey, the first round of the Endesa League and the first of this final.
21:10 – Madrid, forced to win
Tonight, at Real Madrid only victory serves him. Everything that is not storming the Palau Blaugrana will mean the end of the Endesa League and, therefore, the nineteenth league title for the Barcelona. The defeat at the Wizink and the fact that the final is played in the best of three matches instead of five, leaves no more room for error for Laso’s team.
21:00 – Welcome to the final of the Endesa League!
Second game of the best-of-three series between the Real Madrid -Champion of the regular phase- and the Barcelona. Pablo Laso’s team is obliged to win to define the final of the Endesa League in the last game, which would be played at the Wizink Center. Everything that is not prevailing today in this Classic, would be to definitely say goodbye to a title that they have fought a lot for this season.
The Madridistas have only lost four games this season in the competition, two in the first phase and another two in the play-offs, but if they lose again today, they will be runners-up. In a shorter final than normal, given that it is three instead of five games, the whites have no room for maneuver. Or they storm the Palau, as they did in the second round of the League, or they will see how Barça lift the title.
The runner-up in Europe, the Barcelona of Jasikevicius, is a favorite, but if there is something that this Real Madrid is that he never gives up. He did not do it in the Euroleague to enter the quarterfinals, nor against Efes and he will not do it today against his greatest rival. Of course, Mirotic, Higgins, Calathes or Gasol will not make things easy for Laso’s men, who will have to give 120% to fight to win. At 22:00 hours what may be the last game of this season begins, if Llull and co is not prevented.
