BAXI Manresa has an opportunity to compete at a high level in La Fonteta

BAXI Manresa will have a complicated commitment in the penultimate day of the first round of the Endesa League. This Sunday, from 17:00 and live on M+ Deportes 2, he will visit the difficult court of Valencia Basket, a team that is competing in the Euroleague this year.

The Bages team want to turn the page from the painful defeat conceded at the Nou Congost against Casademont Zaragoza and continue to improve in their game, as they have been doing in the last matches, to try to achieve a prestigious victory, which would be the fourth in the state competition and would help move up positions. After the visit to Valencia, BAXI Manresa will have 4 consecutive home games in 12 days.

The orange team, led since this season by Álex Mumbrú, is playing the qualification for the next Copa del Rey. However, the Valencians are having a lot of problems with injuries: this week Jasiel Rivero, who was being the most valued player in the league, and Jared Harper fell, adding to the already known losses of Martin Hermannsson, Millán Jiménez, Sam Van Rossom and Víctor Claver. In addition, point guard Chris Jones drags discomfort in a knee and is questionable. Despite these problems, Valencia Basket is still a very dangerous opponent, and proof of this is the victory achieved this week against the European champions, Anadolu Efes (81-71).

Pedro Martínez, who will once again return to the court where he was champion in the 2016-2017 season, explained in the preview that "the difficulty is great, because we are playing away in front of a very high level team; during the week we continued to adapt the latest additions; lately we have achieved some improvement in defence, but we have a lot of room for improvement both in attack and defence; we hope to be able to maintain stability in the squad».