Day and night explain in a simple way what the IDK Euskotren season is going through. In the first seven days the … Azu Muguruza’s team led the table. Yes, it was the first tie with the big teams in the competition. His game was effective, serious and left no prisoners. He defeated, and without problems, Perfumerías Avenida, Jairis and Baxi Ferrol on his track. Little to say and much to applaud in those first two months of competition.
But the night and the cold came. Six consecutive defeats (Ensino, Girona, Leganés, Cadí La Seu, Gernika and Araski) mean that IDK Euskotren is playing today at the Príncipe Felipe in Zaragoza for its place in the Copa de la Reina when a few weeks ago it could be taken for granted that IDK was going to be one of the eight best at the end of the first round.
That great start, that enormous staging, those comfortable victories, now place them with five positive points in the balance of goals for and against, the main parameter to break ties. And that is the network that will give you the ticket. Thus, the order of factors does not alter the product and the excellent start to the competition will give the Guipuzcoan squad the ticket to play for the seventh time in its history in the final phase of the Queen’s Cup that will be played in Tarragona from March 26 to 29.
It is also worth beating Zaragoza, although that is a somewhat tricky issue at this point in the championship. Remenarova’s injury and the fact that her replacement, Tulonen, did not live up to the expectations created, have left IDK with only nine players. Three games in a week is the worst that comes to the team and, let’s be honest, today they start as a theoretical victim. Although IDK is showing that he has moments of brilliant basketball. Today could be one of those days.
53 mattress points
Before reviewing what the Ibaeta squad is going to have in front of them, the cup accounts are clear. If they win they are among the top eight but even losing they could enter as long as Ferrol wins in Leganés.
But if IDK loses and Leganés wins, there will be a triple tie of seven wins that must be settled by the basket average. And there the IDK comes out well. Theirs is +5, Leganés’s is -20 and Baxi Ferrol’s is -57. That is to say that if the Madrid team wins by one point, Ferrol would have a -58 balance, so IDK Euskotren would even be better off losing by 53 points against Casademont Zaragoza.
Carlos Cantero, coach of Zaragoza, has an inexhaustible battery of top-level players. They have only lost one game so far in the league – it was against Gernika in Maloste – and on their court they have beaten Girona and Perfumerías Avenida. It is true that they are not crushing their rivals but IDK will have to play a serious game to be as close as possible to the tricks.
The French Carla Leite is their top scorer although any of the players can be an offensive reference; Merritt Hempe, Nadia Fingall and Helena Pueyo are also trigger-happy players, like Mariona Ortiz, Aminala Gueye and Ornella Bankole.
