Real Madrid-Betis: European champions close out the Regular Season in the league
Our team play their final game ahead of the playoffs just three days on from clinching La Undécima in Kaunas (8:30pm CEST).
After being crowned European champions and lifting La Undécima in Kaunas on Sunday, Real Madrid play their final Regular Season league clash against a Real Betis team fighting for survival. Our boys will finish second if they win and Baskonia fail to do so, as they pursue a 28th victory at the WiZink Center.
It's time to switch our thoughts back to the League following a hugely emotional weekend. There are still things to play for as the team looks to finish second rather than third in the Regular Season, awaiting to discover their quarter-final playoff opposition, which will be either Joventut or Gran Canaria. If we get the better of Betis and Baskonia lose at Girona, we'll close the season out as runners-up. The Andalusian team are playing for their place in the division next season, knowing a win will save them from relegation, but if they lose and Granada win, they face the drop.
It's time to switch our thoughts back to the League following a hugely emotional weekend. There are still things to play for as the team looks to finish second rather than third in the Regular Season, awaiting to discover their quarter-final playoff opposition, which will be either Joventut or Gran Canaria. If we get the better of Betis and Baskonia lose at Girona, we'll close the season out as runners-up. The Andalusian team are playing for their place in the division next season, knowing a win will save them from relegation, but if they lose and Granada win, they face the drop.
Madrid will likely change things around ahead of the start of the playoffs this Sunday at the WiZink Center, though they come into the clash on their equal best run of the campaign, nine successive wins - eight in May and the last in April. Betis are also in fine form, playing for their lives. They have won five of their last eight games on the road, as well as their last two in a row Obradoiro and Girona.
Two wins this season
This game is sure to be very different from the reverse fixture, when we won by 18 points in Seville 55-73. Casemiro has renovated the squad, with the arrival of Pargo at point guard, the same position where the young Jean Montero is excelling as well. At just 19 years of age, he's averaging 17.5 points per game. On the inside, they are a physical team, strong on the rebound Tyson Pérez, Gerum, Fischer and Pasecknis. As for head-to-heads, we've won the last 10 in the League, as well as the Super Cup semi-finals 69-100. The hero of the Undécima Sergio Llull could play his 1000th Real Madrid game.
Two wins this season
This game is sure to be very different from the reverse fixture, when we won by 18 points in Seville 55-73. Casemiro has renovated the squad, with the arrival of Pargo at point guard, the same position where the young Jean Montero is excelling as well. At just 19 years of age, he's averaging 17.5 points per game. On the inside, they are a physical team, strong on the rebound Tyson Pérez, Gerum, Fischer and Pasecknis. As for head-to-heads, we've won the last 10 in the League, as well as the Super Cup semi-finals 69-100. The hero of the Undécima Sergio Llull could play his 1000th Real Madrid game.