History is not good with Granca, every time Real Madrid faces off in the Playoff… they lose

As if it were some kind of European Super Cup, the Eurocup champion will face the king of basketball in the Old continent. With eleven gimped in the showcases of the white team, Chus Mateo’s team Morality has food for him not only throughout history and the 71 times they have faced each otherbut also in the current season Kaja Lakovic’s team has bitten the dust against the meringues on the two previous occasions that they have seen their faces.

If history already shows that Real Madrid is the greatest in the history of Europe, in the eleven appointments for the Playoff that have been measured, in none have the Claretians been able to win a single victory against the whites.

From the first time that the quarterfinal team brought together the group from the Spanish capital with Granca, back in the campaign 1999-2000, the first that meant for the Claretian entity to play a postseason. The team led by Manolo Hussein fell 3-0 against Sergio Scariolo’s manwhich was ultimately proclaimed league champion at the Palau Blaugrana with Djordjevic raising his fingers to the sky at the Palau Blaugrana against Pau Gasol.

It took fifteen years for Gran Canaria and Real Madrid to meet again in the playoffs for the league title. In the 2014-15with Aíto García Reneses on the island bench and after playing the Eurocup final against Khimki and the meringues conquering the ninth European Cup against Olympiacos In WiZink, Pablo Laso’s men cleaned up the islanders on the fast track with a 2-0 score, as well as beating them in the first clash 101-74.

The next time they met was in the campaign 2017-18, but this time in the semifinals, when Granca got their only ticket to the Euroleague by beating Valencia in the quarterfinals. As fate would have it in some way, the white team also came from conquering their Tenth European Cup and dispatched Luis Casimiro’s men without giving up a single game of the three disputed against the ship led by Luka Doncic.

We must also take into account the duel played during the extraordinary phase held during the L’Alquería bubble in 2020. There, in the group stage, Madrid won 91-73.

Finally, the last time they beat each other in the white and yellow Playoffs was ago two years ago, with a double helping of defeats and an image to forget with Olek and Albicy fought.