Visit to the Barrio de Los Pintores

The senior will contest the sixth competitive meeting at the Villarrobledo parquet

| Saturday, 19 October 2019

After achieving the fifth victory in five matches, the men led by Àlex Formento will look for the sixth today on the court of CB Villarrobledo (19:30). The Albacete team has yet to lose playing as a home team and has just won at the Barça B ground.

The next rival, CB Villarrobledo, competes in the second season in LEB Plata, like the senior, with the same coach, Manuel Jiménez, after reaching the promotion playoff . However, the new draft includes almost none of the faces from the previous squad, with the sole exception of former Girona Milan Suskavcevic. Pieces from EBA, LEB Plata and Ireland have been added to the new group. However, the standout piece is being an inactive player last season: DeAngelo Hailey (31 rating in last home game). In collective terms, Villarrobledo is the second team that hunts the most offensive rebounds and the fourth that captures the most rebounds.

Statements by Àlex Formento:

“The purpose is the same every week: to be able to keep improving, and to remain solid in everything we are doing well. In this line, I want to value, above all, being recognizable in our identity: supportive, aggressive, brave and constant during the 40 minutes. This is the firm intention for Saturday, the path we want to take and that we must keep unchanged in victory or defeat, even more so when you visit one of the most difficult tracks in the league.”

“To highlight, as happened last season, the block. A solid team very well coached and playing with a high level of intensity, with high pressure on the ball while at the same time not conceding any easy basketball. If this is already characteristic of his game even more on his track. where they haven’t lost a game. A match as extraordinarily difficult as it was motivating for us.”

Schedule of the 6th day of the East group of LEB Plata 

Photo: Sergi Geronès