Unicaja Málaga y Real Madrid They face this Tuesday in the fourth semifinal match of the Endesa Leaguea new duel for the second and last passport to the tie for the title that will be of very high tension after everything that happened throughout the series. If we collect all the piques, fouls and anger since the ban was opened in the Movistar ArenaIt is logical to think that this encounter will be the hottest of the entire saga.
On the one hand, there is the Andalusian team, the one who knows the most to hold on to life in this type of adverse scenarios. He arrived last Sunday at his pavilion, the Martín Carpenaafter fitting a 2-0 in the capital of Spaceand surprised the white team with a first part, which was not worth his great reaction in the second to win and get into the final against the Valencia Basket.
Real Madrid had the extension, but an unsportsmanlike foul to Dzanan Musa on Kendrick Perry He gave Unicaja two free throws and possession to seven tenths that the horn sounded and the triumph ended up falling from a local side that earned an extra life. The referees could not rewind the basket of Usman Remixbut they did make the worst possible decision for the interests of the whites, which were those two points of points for those of Malaga.
Real Madrid's coaching staff and the players desperately on the bench because Muse had no intention of hurting Perry, who ended his face totally bloody. It was not the only war image that was seen in the game, since in addition to the scratch of the Cajista base, Few He also went to the locker room with a gap in the eyelid and the eye full of blood. Two fallen soldiers to Ibon Navarrofurther Tyson Pérezwho was injured from the ankle, and Melvin ejimwho was discarded because, by words of his coach, “he couldn't even walk.”
Chus Mateo E ibon Navarro, Protagonistaas
Precisely the coaches are having a lot to say in this series. After the Airosas protests by Ibonon Navarro at the Movistar Arena after the second game both in the costumes and in the press room, Chus Matthew He took the floor in the carpena with a conciliatory speech and making it clear that he focused on speaking solely and exclusively on basketball in his appearances and not of the referees.
A pulse that Ibon Navarro maintained just after, clarifying that his protest in the palace was not due to the faults, but because, in his opinion, the referees did not respect Olek Balcerowski And they tried “as if it were a mucus” to the young 24 -year -old pivot. All this recapitulation of events will come together in the fourth episode this Tuesday, again in the carpena.
Real Madrid, concentrated in Malaga, trained in the pavilion and only Walter Tavares He gave a brief assessment on the clash, moving a common message from the squad, which goes from entering the Unicaja game: «We have to focus on ourselves and not lose so many balls. Our motivation is that we have a victory to move to the final and tomorrow we will leave our lives ».
Eighth Unicaja-Real Madrid of the season
The recent history between the two teams marks the guideline of what the game can be. Two finals, two regular phase games and three of play off… with victories for Unicaja in the two titles (Supercopa and Copa del Rey) and desire to revenge a Real Madrid who only thinks about fastering the series and returning to the palace to begin its final fifth in five years against Valencia. At 9:15 p.m. a new episode of this beautiful Basketball Battle starts.
