Leyma seeks to meet again with Melilla

Twenty days after his defeat to Oviedo, Leyma Básquet Coruña returns to play at the Riazor Sports Palace. It will be tomorrow Sunday, starting at seven in the afternoon, against Melilla, the dean of the LEB Oro. The orange team seeks to rediscover its identity because after that stumble at home came another defeat, last weekend in Lleida.

In his usual analysis prior to a match, Leyma coach Sergio García appealed to “confidence” and to “keep working” to regain the good feelings of other matches and achieve victory. “We want to continue to be in the playoff part of the competition, and that is why it is an important game for us,” he summed up.

This Sunday’s rival for Básquet Coruña is a classic of the category. Although it does not have the staff of other years – when it was a serious candidate for promotion – Melilla is a team that has managed to combine very different pieces. So far they have achieved the same victories as Leyma (6), the last against Granada, one of the teams with the best squad in the category.

In the ranks of Melilla there are players with an orange past such as Mouhamed Barro or Álex Llorca, the last guest on the Tirando de tres program. In addition, the shooting streaks of Niko Rakocevic or the direction of the game of Chapela stand out, in a team without great stars but with great skill and control of the games.

“We play with an opponent who surely comes with a very high level of confidence. They have managed to beat one of the main candidates this year of the competition very well, such as Granada, making a very complete match. We expect a Melilla, in that sense , with confidence, believing in what they are doing and that is going to demand of us “, summarized Sergio García in his analysis of the rival.

Athletics exhibition

During the halftime of the match, a 300-meter athletics exhibition will be held at the Riazor Palace of Sports, which will feature four top-level athletes: Álvaro de los Heras (bronze in 100-meter sprint in the Absolute Spanish Championship) , Elian Numa López (sub-23 national runner-up in 800-meter open air and indoor track), Mauro Triana (holds Galician records in 100-meter and 200-meter sprint) and Oscar Husillos (current European champion in 400-meter indoor track).