Barça He has the opportunity this Friday to be in the semifinals of the Endesa League If he wins at home against Unicaja. Those of Peñarroya did the most difficult, which was to win at Martín Carpena and recover the court factor. Even so, they should not trust: a statistic is not very optimistic with the result of the Catalans in the second game.
In Malaga, Barça took a game that did not look good In the last minutes. The locals were for much of the game ahead, Until Justin Anderson's free throws arrived. The American forced the extension by scoring two of three attempts and the Catalan team showed its best version in the extra five minutes.
“Given all adversities, These guys have been therewe have not won what we would like to have won, but we have always been there. It will be a maximum difficulty match“I commented Joan Peñarroya in the previous one of the Endesa League Playoffs.
Barcelona's pivot Willy Hernangómez, during the first playoff game / EFE
In the extension, The Culés played without a '5' on track, with Willy Hernangómez and Youssoupha Fall on the bench. Peñarroya opted for a small quintet to put the first point in the tie. “Before we had already played with two '4', it goes a bit with the game reading. They play finals with pivots that open the field. We are prepared to give what the game requires us,” he said.
Barça wants to qualify for the Palau Blaugrana, next to his hobby, although he knows that it will not be easy. Despite having won in the carpena, Unicaja does not lower the arms and knows that winning the Blaugrana in Barcelona is not something impossible. If there is someone capable of doing so, it is the set directed by Ibon Navarro.
The coach of Barcelona, Joan Peñarroya, during the first match of the quarterfinals of the Endesa Basketball League that Unicaja and FC Barcelona / EFE
The statistics that Barça fears
In fact, the Malaga have the direct confrontation won with Barça in the last seven games in the Palau Blaugrana: Unicaja has won a total of four games and the locals have done so three times. A statistic that alerts Peñarroya and its players, which should not leave much less relaxed to this meeting.
The last precedent in Liga Endesa It is positive for Barçawhich won his rival at home in the playoffs just over a month ago. On that occasion, lThe Peñarroya went around the game in the last quartercounteracting the good performance of Tyson Carter y Kameron Taylortwo of Unicaja's most dangerous players.
In case of winning those of Ibon Navarro in the Palau, Barça would face the winner of the tie between Real Madrid and Baskonia in the semifinalsthat whites dominate. If there were classic, Barça would have the track factor against and if they go back those of Laso would have it in favor, playing the first two games in Barcelona.
