Fontajau, ready for Gran Canaria

Basketball Girona faces Gran Canaria in the return home game (8.45pm)

| Friday, 18 November 2022

Gran Canaria travels to Fontajau to play the match corresponding to matchday 8 of the Endesa League tomorrow. After a week without competition due to the FIBA ​​stoppage, the ACB returns to Fontajau to receive the third placed teams. 

The team coached by Jaka Laković are completing a great start to the season, with 5 wins and only 2 losses so far. He has managed to overcome rivals at the top of the classification, such as FC Barcelona, ​​and only Unicaja Málaga and Lenovo Tenerife have resisted him.

The Girona players, on the other hand, reached the stoppage of selections with a narrow defeat at the Palau Blaugrana. The good dynamics of the game and results, however, had meant achieving two consecutive victories before the visit to Barcelona.

The match will be played tomorrow, Saturday 19 November, at 8.45 pm, at the Fontajau Pavilion. It can also be followed by Movistar + dial 61.

 

CALL

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

  

STATEMENTS

Aíto García Reneses: ‘It has been a week where the general operation of the teams has been interrupted, with many players going to the national team appointments.’

‘The  Gran Canaria is playing very well, results and classifications prove it. We have to play very concentrated, very intense and in line with the last games, with the will to do a little more every day.’

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.’