In the spirit of Alba Torrens placeholder image, as in the rest of the Spanish team, the image of the last Eurobasket and the hard defeat against Serbia in the quarterfinals. That day, the Balearic player was unable to help her teammates defeat the Balkan team. The virus prevented her from participating in the entire European Championship, just as a knee injury two years earlier prevented her from participating in another European Championship. Two consecutive tournaments in which the offensive benchmark of this team had to watch the matches on television and which make these Games the most special tournament for an Alba for whom the time for revenge has come. Like the rest of the Spanish team.
“We know very well who we are playing this game against. It’s a great team, but we’ve always faced them and that’s what we want to do, to compete again, ”said the Balearic player after Spain’s first match at the Games. A clash against Korea in which the Balearic Islands were not particularly successful. Something she hopes to compensate against the team formed by Marina Maljkovic.
Defense as a key
Spain need the best version of an average player 13 points in 178 games as international and that, as recognized by the national coach Lucas Mondelo, is one of the great references of this team: “I think having a reference like Alba forces rivals to defend differently. I would like to see other teams like Serbia without Petrovic, to see if they compete like us ”.
I would like to see Serbia without a reference like us without Alba, let’s see if they compete like us ”
Lucas Mondelo
To compete. This is the verb that the whole national team conjugates before a vital game so that the Spanish options are in the quarter-finals, as the coach recognizes. A ranking that manages to stop the potential of the current European champion, as recognized Silvia Domnguez: “We must minimize errors because it is a team with a lot of experience and can punish you Every mistake you make, you have to stop one of their most important players. we need to be more faithful than ever to the game plan and what we are up to. “
