Sergio Martinez is doing good a Girona what was proposed in the summer, when he renewed for Barça until 2025 to come, right after, a year on loan to Fontajau. “I have come to find myself as a player and to be happy playing basketball”, he explains in every interview he has been given since then. And he is succeeding, because he is one of the outstanding pieces of the team of Salva Camps, especially in defensive work, has played all the games as a starter and has an average of 25 minutes on the court. Credits 5.4 points and 6 rebounds, with a better performance on the day of the defeat at home against the Tenerife, 13 points and 19 rating. Martínez had just played 15 games last year, which was marked by injuries and physical problems.
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On Sunday, at the age of 24, he will face Barça for the first time. “It’s always special to play against the team that raised you, that gave you everything,” he said today. And it is so, because the wing of ruby he arrived at the Blaugrana club at a young age and went through all the training categories, standing out as one of the pearls of the youth system, and also of the Spanish national team. He made his debut with the first team in the 2019/20 season and from the 2020/21 season, he was in the first team dynamic, until the 2021/22 league he becomes a first team player for all intents and purposes. In the Endesa League, the now Girona winger has played 93 games, 83 for Blaugrana, with an average of 13 minutes and 2.5 points per game, with Barça. He made 65 appearances in the Euroleague.
After playing the first 10 games of this season, Girona has a 6-4 record and is among the top eight. It comes from winning last Saturday Brogán I face the visit to Palau, as they say, with nothing to lose and with maximum comfort in the classification. That’s why Sergi Martínez does not hide that “we really want to go to the Palau, we have come from a very good week of work, of polishing things, and we dream of this match”. Despite facing “his” Barça, the Rubí player emphasizes that “now I’m in Girona and we want this triumph. We will do whatever it takes.”
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The Blaugrana, who fell to Murcia in the last day of the league, they won on Thursday Macabbi (90-92). “They always want to win and compete, they have a very high physical tone from the first moment”, points out Martínez on what could be one of the keys to Sunday’s derby. Last season, at the Palau, Girona were ready to surprise (72-69). Da Silva he was the best of the locals (16 points and 14 rebounds). Martínez did not play either the first leg or the second leg.
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