Visit to a Barça injured from not being in the cup final, aiming to continue climbing the league table in the regular season
He’s playing a big game at the Palau Blaugrana (5pm). Barça-ElPozo with the added incentive of legendary former Barça player Javi Rodríguez to return to the Palau. It is the first time he has done this while on the bench for the Murcia team. “For me it is the most special race, because returning to the Palau is something magical. We go there before everyone and want to add up the three points and continue the climb in the league, in the wake of Jaén and Palma,” said the butcher’s coach yesterday, who was a Barça player between 2006 and 2012.
Barça and ElPozo have been eliminated from the semi-finals of the Spanish Cup and are looking forward to Saturday’s game as an opportunity to regain their self-esteem. Barça will have to play the decisive one-game draw against Jaén next Tuesday, as well as at the Palau, as they are in the ‘last four’ of the Copa del Rey. ElPozo is eliminated from that competition.
Jesús Velasco, the coach of Culé, is handicapped by the injuries of Ferrao and Dyego, but will be able to count on Sergio Lozano, Ortiz and Adolfo, who were touched in the match against Inter in the semi-finals of the Spanish Cup. In ElPozo’s selection, which is beginning to forget the defeat against Jaén in Granada, they are all available. «You have to change the chip, because the League is completely different from a short tournament like the Spanish Cup, in which the sensations were not bad at all. Now we want to do our best and finish second in the regular season,” ElPozo Murcia’s coach said yesterday.
In contrast, yesterday the municipal council approved a municipal grant of 200,000 euros for ElPozo Murcia. This municipal council sponsorship can be renewed annually for a maximum of three years, i.e. until the 2025-2026 season. In addition, the local government yesterday gave the green light for a subsidy of 400,000 euros for UCAM CB Murcia, which is seeing an improvement in its contribution this season for its participation in the basketball Champions League.
Source: La Verdad
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