Baskonia clings to the Buesa Arena to maintain his streak

Baskonia clings to the Buesa Arena to maintain his streak

MADRID, 8 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Cazoo Baskonia welcomes FC Bayern Munich this Friday (8:30 p.m.) at the Fernando Buesa Arena on matchday 12 of the Euroleague Regular Phase, with the idea of ​​confirming its good run of results and with the aim of recovering the enormous sensations that they had at the start of the competition, against an injured rival who, plagued by casualties, will try to surprise in Vitoria and extend the good results of the last month with four wins in six games.

Joan Peñarroya's men arrive at a good moment after winning their two games last week, against Milan (78-62) and UCAM Murcia (102-73). The azulgranas will seek to continue adding in front of their fans at home since the Buesa Arena factor is being important this season: of the 6 Euroleague games that have been played in the Zurbano pavilion, they have only lost one.

Thus, with a partial of six victories and five defeats in the maximum continental competition, the Basques occupy the seventh position of the table, tied with Anadolu Efes and Zalgiris Kaunas, in their particular struggle to get one of the first eight places that give access to the 'play-offs'. The locals will face the duel being leaders in scoring (87) and as the team that transforms the most from a line of three (11.5).

Meanwhile, FC Bayern Munich arrives in Vitoria in fifteenth position in the table, with a balance of four wins and seven losses, after an unfortunate start for Andrea Trinchieri's team that is beginning to turn around. And it is that the four German triumphs are from the last month, including against the champion Anadolu Efes (81-78) or the last one against Maccabi Tel Aviv (98-89).

The German team will have to fight against the plague of casualties, since up to six players could miss the match. In addition to the absences of the Serbian forward Vladimir Lucic, due to an elbow injury, and that of the American power forward Augustine Rubit, who suffered a groin strain in the previous match against Maccabi, is now added that of the Slovenian guard-guard Zan Sisko, absent for personal reasons.

Andrea Trinchieri could have more problems if the injuries to US guard Corey Walden and German forward Nick Weiler-Babb, who did not finish last Tuesday's German league match against Oldenburg, are finally confirmed. At the locals, Tadas Sedekerskis is still a doubt but Joan Peñarroya will be able to count on the rest of his squad for sure.

Although the balance of victories favors Cazoo Baskonia with five wins against Bayern's three in direct confrontations, the team from Vitoria will want to forget what happened on the last visit of the Germans to the Zurbano pavilion, where the Bavarians won the victory (77-84) last January.

CAZOO BASKONIA: Thompson, Marinkovic, Giedraitis, Hommes and Kotsar --possible starting five--; Costello, Henry, Kurucs, Raieste, Diez, Howard.

FC BAYERN MUNICH: Winston, Giffey, Harris, Wimberg y Hunter --posible quinteto inicial-- Bonga, Gillespie, Jaramaz, Obst y Zipser.

--REFEREES: Radovic, Rocha and Pastusiak.

--PAVILLION: Fernando Buesa Sand.