Real Madrid and Unicaja The faces are seen again (9:15 p.m.) in the second game of the Endesa League semifinals. Those of Chus Matthew They have the opportunity to put on the tie at home, after spending ease in the first duel between them for a difference of 18 points.
The physicist was definitive in the first victory of the whites. Madrid arrived at the game with more rest daysafter fulfilling on the Baskonia track and closing the tie in two games, while Unicaja had to play two extensions in the Martín Carpena to overcome the team led by Joan Peñarroya.
The local defensive match was huge against their 'kryptonite' this season. And it is that those of Ibon Navarro have stolen up to two titles this season: the Endesa Super Cup and the Copa del Rey. Even so, Unicaja did not resemble that team that has the gift of bothering … and winning Real Madrid.
Musa scored four triples in the first quarter of Real Madrid-Unicaja. / Juanjo Martin / EFE
Whites are still unstoppable. And even more if Dzanan Musa is at the team's star level. The Bosnian gave a recital from the triple, scoring six of nine attempts, while Tavares showed off his aerial power and surpassed Fernando Romay in the list of older plugs in the history of the Endesa League. Cabo Verde is already second, after reaching the 671 'hats' of Romay.
Unicaja must improve its version of the first game, in which it was not at your “usual energy level“, As Ibon Navarro said. Even so, it seems practically impossible to get a victory to Real Madrid at the Movistar Aren With a historical streak of 28 triumphs in a house in home in Liga Endesa.
“In a playoff win like this, it is nothing, we just go to zero, and that is what I want to convey to the players, that the next day we start zero to zero and you have to make a very good game from minute oneknowing that playoffs are usually hard and long series, where from one game to another everything can change a lot. We have to leave the next day as we have done today to be able to face another game from scratch, “said Chus Mateo after the first game.
Game by game
“We are going to get well, although they are unpredictable matches, especially the first, and we will see the approach that they have at the level of team structure, what players we can arrange and we will see how it is going,” said Icon Navarro, Unicaja technician, Unicaja, which signed up for the philosophy of “party by party.”
Real Madrid will try to repeat the perfect game against the Malaga to put the second point and be just one step away from the final. On the other hand, those of IBON will cling to the past and believe in the possibility of winning the whites in the Movistar Arena, in addition to fulfilling in Martín Carpena.
