Real Madrid-La Laguna Tenerife: closing out the week with a clean sweep of four wins
After defeating Baskonia, Coviran Granada and Zalgiris, Chus Mateo's boys aim for a home win this afternoon which would secure Copa del Rey seeding (5pm CET).
Today, Real Madrid face La Laguna Tenerife in our fourth game of the week. After beating Baskonia, Coviran Granada and Zalgiris Kaunas, our team will look for a clean sweep of wins to extend the current excellent streak of six consecutive victories that started back on December 26.
The Movistar Arena will host a thrilling match-up between the League’s third and the fourth-placed teams. With the same number of wins (11) but with the overall basket average in favor of the Whites, they will try to take one more step towards Copa del Rey seeding in Gran Canaria. With two games left, the objective for Chus Mateo's men is still in their own hands (Next up is a visit to Morabanc Andorra). For their part, the team from Tenerife can also achieve this thanks to their recent four-match winning streak in this competition.
Real Madrid are enjoying the season’s longest victorious streak (Alba Berlin, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Baskonia, Coviran Granada and Zalgiris Kaunas). For Chus Mateo the key has been “to take a step forward defensively”. Our team limited the Lithuanians to 64 points in Kaunas last Friday, their best record in the Euroleague this season. Today will be a highly demanding test against a very offensive La Laguna Tenerife team who have several players capable of scoring and are extremely dangerous with their three-pointers. The Campazzo-Huertas pairing will be one of the game’s main attractions, with the Brazilian point guard continuing to be his team’s driving force. Feliz, increasingly important for Madrid, will be another decisive factor in shutting down their playmakers.
Musa to continue his excellent form
In the paint, Tavares, Ibaka and Ndiaye will have their work cut out for them with their opponent’s free-flowing inside game: Guerra and Shermadini as centers and Abromaitis and Doonerkamp to open the court. Musa, who will be playing his 200th game with Real Madrid, is a pivotal factor. MVP of the day in La Liga for the last round of matches with his 39 rating against Coviran Granada, he comes into the game having scored 17 points in 16 minutes in Kaunas. A fantastic evening of basketball awaits us at the Movistar Arena.