Defeat at the Palace

Basketball Girona falls to the Palau Blaugrana by 3 points, competing until the last moment (72-69)

| Sunday, 06 November 2022

FC Barcelona and Bàsquet Girona faced each other today in very distant positions in the classification: Barça, leader with 5 victories, prevailed thanks to success and defensive solidity.

The match started with a score of 0-6. The Girona players set the pace and intensity at the start, knowing how to hold the momentum for the first 8 minutes. From that moment on, Barça reacted, with a great partial, to be ahead on the scoreboard at the end of the first quarter (23-19).

Blaugrana’s dominance increased in the second period: the locals knew how to run more and better and found success from practically all areas of attack, achieving a maximum advantage of +15. The second half started with a score of 50-38, and had a very similar tonic, only broken by a good half that put Aíto’s men under the 10-point barrier.

In the last minutes of the third quarter, Barça again found all their success to break the game and decide the derby in their corner, but the reds managed to get involved again, competing until the last moment. In the end, 72-69.

This next week the competition will stop to make way for the FIBA ​​window. Basketball Girona’s next game will be on Saturday, November 19, against Gran Canaria, in Fontajau.

POST-PART ASSESSMENT:

Aíto: “It was an irregular match. In the first half there was a moment when we lowered our arms quite a bit and didn’t fight as we should have and, in the second half, Barça did the same with the difference that they play three or four games a week. I’m unhappy in this first half where we didn’t work and much more happy with the beginning of the game and the second half where we worked more. If we want to keep improving, it’s not worth working now and not working now: we must always work.” 

The first Catalan derby for Básquet Girona, in League competition, arrives on matchday 7 and will be against FC Barcelona at home. In the last precedent, in the Catalan League, Barça won 88-77.

The men coached by Sarunas Jasikevicius arrive at the match in a very good league dynamic: 5 wins and only 1 defeat. Despite starting the championship losing on the track of Gran Canaria, the streak of 5 consecutive winning games has served them to lead the classification.

Básquet Girona, for its part, also reached the compromise by stringing together 2 victories in a row that have taken them out of the relegation zone and turned the dynamics of the beginning of the League upside down. Currently, Aíto García Reneses’ team has a record of 2 wins and 4 losses.

The match will be played this Sunday, November 6, at 5 p.m., at the Palau Blaugrana. It can also be followed by Movistar + dial 59.

Call

Maxi Fjellerup, Eric Vila, Kameron Taylor, Pol Figueras, Roko Prkačin, Quino Colom, Dušan Miletić, Pierre Oriola, Ondrej Hanzlík, Pato Garino, Marc Gasol and Jaume Sorolla.

Declarations

Aíto García Reneses: ‘It’s a game to go and play the best we can. Then there will be people who will only enjoy if the result is favorable. We have to go to play with the aim of being a little better every day’.

‘I think we trained quite well. We have raised the level of training as well as the level of matches. I don’t attach so much importance to the psychological aspect: we have to do our best knowing that the others are also playing.’