Basketball Girona and Hiopos Lleida, Both teams already saved, will say goodbye this Thursday (8.30 pm) the course in Fontajau with a duel that the club of Marc Gasol has presented as a party to celebrate its permanence One more year in the Endesa League.
The team of Moncho Fernández lost last Sunday for an unappealable 97-74 On the track of Barça, but mathematically saving salvation thanks to the Caviran Granada defeat at Casa del Real Madrid (79-67). The Lleida, meanwhile, managed to materialize his permanence three days ago and confirmed a notable first season in the highest category of the Spanish bars.
The Gerundense set sealed a objective that was minimal in summer And that seemed little less than a utopia in December for the results, two wins in eleven days, and especially for the sensations of the team led by Fotis katsikaris. But the Girona team regained the pulse and competitiveness with the arrival of Moncho Fernández. With the Galician coach on the bench, he has harvested nine victories and thirteen defeats, and has returned the optimism to the fans with a fighter and intense character.
The team has been saved in advance and now faces the meeting with Lleida as a symbolic final Because the rivalry with the Barris Nord club, debuting in the ACB, is new, but is already intense. Win would be able to advance the rival in the classification and even aspire to the fourteenth place, since the Surne Bilbao Basket has a difficult match against Barça. The three teams are tied for eleven victories.
Losing would be the worst classification of the team chaired by Marc Gasol in the Endesa League because the season would end in last last position. In the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 courses it was Tenth and fourteenth, respectively. Girona has already taken the Catalan duel against the Lleida of the first round, by 85-90 with 19 points of Maxi Fjellerup and Ike Ireegbu. IreEGBU was also the best player of the Moncho team in Sunday's defeat at the Palau with 19 points and 26 assessment credits.
Moncho explained in the previous Fjellerup is still low by a pubalgia and that the pivot Juan Fernández has not been able to train with the group for an ankle sprain and is “more than doubt.” For its part, the Lleida will visit Fontajau for the first time in the highest category and will do so from the fifteenth position of the table, with a partial of 11 victories and 22 losses.
Those of Gerard finds They will try to break a bad streak that pursues them since their years in the gold leb, then They have never managed to impose themselves on gerunds in their fief. As for the direct clashes, Lleida and Girona have seen the faces up to six times, of which, only one has fallen in favor of those of Bordeaux. It was in the 2022 season, when he at that time Força Lleida won the Girona by 86-65 in Barris Nord.
The party will also be special for the multiple farewells that can be confirmed in the Leridano team. At the moment, the only official decline is that of the American escort Kenny Hasbrouck, one of the two players who survived the rise of the ascent next to Rafa Villar.
