The Real Madrid wants to appease the European doubts
MADRID, 20 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
This Friday, Real Madrid will try to return to the path of victory in the 2022-2023 Euroleague Regular Phase after suffering two consecutive defeats, some small doubts that they will want to tackle at the WiZink Center (8:45 p.m.) against the Serbian Red Star.
The madridista team fell this Tuesday in another tight final against another direct rival such as Olympiacos (87-89), a setback that was added to last Friday’s El Clásico (75-73) and first against their fans, whom they hope to compensate with a better basketball or, at least, with more continuity.
The ten-time European champion fell to the Piraeus despite being ahead for most of the match and even having a certain advantage in the final stretch. He did not take advantage of it and his rival ended up punishing him to leave him with a negative balance in the standings, although not worrying.
At the moment, Real Madrid is having a hard time taking the pulse of the top continental competition, where it is suffering more to impose its game. He didn’t do it either in his debut on the Panathinaikos pitch where he couldn’t breathe until almost the last minute in a tight victory (68-71).
Now, seeking to avoid repeating the bad start to the 20-21 campaign, when they lost four of their first five games, Chus Mateo’s team must take advantage of the visit of one of the most ‘affordable’ rival theorists to regain their smile, although you should not trust a Red Star that, despite not having won yet, won the WiZink Center in two of its last three visits.
Real Madrid will surely need to defend something better than against Olympiacos, against whom they also suffered with their physical game and against whom they could not impose themselves under the boards and could hardly run either, although they improved somewhat in loss control (11 ).
“There is little time to train and prepare for two games in a row. That is why you have to focus much more on yourself than on the rival. We analyze the strengths and weaknesses and where to attack the opposing team, but it is important that we focus on our work and on continue doing things in our line. Each game is a story and we should not go further in the calendar, “Mateo warned in statements collected by the club’s website.
The Madrid coach, who knows that a new defeat and the ‘shadow’ of Pablo Laso could cause uncertainty to arise despite the good progress in general at the start of the season, will have an exam against a Red Star that has just fallen clearly in the Fernando Buesa Arena (92-75), a defeat that united the losers against Anadolu Efes (72-59) and Panathinaikos (75-77). However, the debut of Argentine point guard Luca Vildoza could give him new energy.
REAL MADRID: Sergio Rodriguez, Causeur, Musa, Yabusele and Tavares — possible starting quintet — Hezonja, Deck, Llull, Abalde, Poirier, Cornelie and Ndiaye.
RED STAR: Adams, Markovic, Lazic, Mitrovic and Bentil –possible starting five–; Vildoza, Lazarevic, Ivanovic, Martin, Dobric, Petrusev, Raduljica, and Holland.
–ÁRBITROS: Pukl, Panther y Vyklicky.
–PAVILLION: WiZink Center.
