BAXI Manresa and Casademont Zaragoza arrive level at the Nou Congost clash
The Aragon team also have 3 wins in the league and they have also lost this week after an extra time. BAXI Manresa still has doubts about the squad but it is expected that in the 2 training sessions it will be able to count on all the players.
A duel between two teams in very similar conditions at the Nou Congost: the last match ended with a narrow defeat in extra time, 3 wins in the Endesa League and the need to climb positions.
BAXI Manresa has made an obvious improvement in recent matches. It fell after 45 minutes of play on a complicated court where it made the local team suffer. Now it receives an opponent also from the lower part of the classification. Pedro Martínez hopes to be able to have the full squad, although there are still some players who have discomfort, especially after playing extra time in the last match in Santiago.
On the other side of the court will be Casademont Zaragoza, which has also started the season with difficulties. Porfirio Fisac's team is 15th with the same balance. The Aragon team share the spotlight among their players: Yusta, Sant-Roos, Mekowulu or Jessup, who joined the team this summer, stand out among the most productive. On the bench, an old acquaintance from Nou Congost: assistant coach Aleix Duran.
Pedro Martínez said in the preview that "the last game was very hard and with extra time and some players still have to recover but we hope to have them for Sunday; Zaragoza is a team that has improved a lot with the change of coach, especially in defence; they are a very physical team, superior to us; they play very fast and we will need to be prepared for a difficult and competitive match; we are not as solid as we would like at home, we have to earn respect so that they do not see us as an affordable rival».