BAXI Manresa has a new opportunity at home against Zaragoza

This Sunday at 12:30 p.m., Matchday 26 of the Endesa League, and Diego Ocampo's men's second consecutive home game. They will face Casademont Zaragoza, a team eager to secure a spot in the top eight. For BAXI Manresa, Armel Traoré will still be out, and Cameron Hunt is doubtful.

April begins with a home game, after a March that has been an odyssey of matches, twice as many away from home. In the last match, they lost at the Nou Congost to a Lleida side that surprised the Bages team with intensity. They need to regain their spirits and return to competing at their highest level to challenge for victory against a team that will also be eager to avenge their first-leg match. Armel Traoré will not play this Sunday, in the final stages of his recovery, and Cameron Hunt is doubtful, but will only just begin training in the final sessions of the week.

For their part, the Aragonese are fighting to get into the playoff zone. To get there, they're chasing Baskonia and BAXI Manresa, with one and two wins more than Porfirio Fisac's team. They've lost very close matches against Tenerife and Barça in recent matchdays after clearly beating Unicaja. Despite the absence of Jilson Bango, they have experienced and effective players like Dubljevic, Bell-Haynes, and Sulejmanovic, who are the most notable statistically.

Coach Diego Ocampo, in the press conference prior to Matchday 26, explained: «I think it will be a very close match, as close as the one against Lleida or more so because they're an opponent that has restructured, they've had injuries, but now they have a stable team again; they'll have to be more balanced." It's a team with very good point guards and shooting guards, and players like Yusta who can do everything, along with an inside game that can do everything, like Dubi, who can play in the low post, come out and shoot well from the 3-point line, and Sulejmanovic three-quarters of the same; we have to go slowly and have continuity with the basics».