After 30 official matches in almost three months of the season10 a month, since September 27 with the debut in the semifinals of the Super Cup, the Real Madrid faces a narrow stretch in its calendaran Everest at Christmas. We’ll see how many oxygen cylinders. This Friday he plays in Monte Carlo on matchday 18 of the Euroleague and next January 11 they visit the Principality to face Andorra. In between, six more commitments to complete a marathon of eight games in 17 days. The show must go on, but the basketball dose may have gotten out of hand.
One match every 48 hours
Although the generic messages from basketball players – players, coaches, leaders – go in one direction (“take care of the player”, “this schedule is increasingly exhausting”, “in the end we are going to pay for it”), reality goes for another, like a kamikaze. The team of Scariolo, who traveled to Monaco on Christmas Day to face a direct rival this Friday in the fight for privileged positions in the Euroleague, will face a meeting every 48 hours on dates where, for example, the Football League stops completely until January 3.
There is a lethal combination of dates and matches (although the squads are long, the risk of injury is very high) which will also be difficult to assume for Barça, Valencia and Baskoniaalthough they already played one of those eight games, those of last Tuesday. The white team spent Christmas Eve at home, but then they will live with their suitcases on their backs for an important stretch of the season, defining the first round of the Euroleague and engaged in the fight for first place in the ACB.
Everything… and a Classic
After measuring this Friday at Monaco by Mirotic and Mike JamesMadrid hosts Unicaja and visits Murcia, with the ACB leadership possibly at stake, on December 30. Then, two dates at the Movistar Arena: Euroleague match against Dubai and Endesa League Classic. The final stretch is a double Euroleague matchday (Maccabi and ASVEL) and a visit to Andorra. Playing more is impossible.
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