Class Bàsquet Sant Antoni faces CB L’Horta Godella at home on Wednesday (20 hours at L’Alqueria del Basket, in Valencia). The Ibizan team will try to close the year, and the first round of the season in the East group of the LEB Plata, with a victory and with good feelings. The great novelty in the islanders will be the presence of the Latvian Janis Kaufmanis, recent reinforcement of the Portmany block. Byron Richards will also return, after regularizing his documentation, while Magnus Mollgaard is still out due to injury.
Carles Flores, Sant Antoni’s coach, expects a difficult game because they face an opponent who “needs to add victories.” After recovering the triumphant path last week against the Prat, the Balearic Islands want more. “The victory against Prat gave us a lot of energy. It makes us believe in the work we are doing and the team is doing well. Although it is a complicated game because it falls on some complex dates. It’s Christmas, the end of the year is coming up and we haven’t been able to prepare the match as we would like to”, said the Catalan coach.
“We are really looking forward to adding the ninth victory of this first round, which has been very good for us. We will have a young team in front of us and we must use our experience, and our most experienced players, to control the game. If we don’t let the match go crazy, we can take it to our ground. And that’s where we are best. But if we don’t have control of the game we will suffer because they, in this chaos, are better”, commented Flores, who highlighted the two point guards from L’Horta Godella (Alejandro Bellver and Lucas Marí) as their most dangerous players. The Valencians, with whom Álex Harguindey, formerly of Sant Antoni, plays, are eighth in the table; meanwhile, the Ibizans arrive fifth, with three victories more than their rival.
