Barcelona and Real Madrid meet this Friday in the first match of the Endesa League final, which will be played at the Palau Blaugrana. Sarunas Jasikevicius’s team will try to take revenge after losing last year’s final and having recently been eliminated in the Final Four by the Madrid team.
The azulgranas want to recover the truncated dominance with the defeat in the Euroleague semifinal of the previous season. Until then, Barcelona had won 11 of 14 matches in all competitions against their eternal rival, including the 2021 and 2022 Copa del Rey finals, and both matches in the Endesa League final of the 2020-2021 season. .
Jasikevicius’s team does not have good memories of the last domestic final, in which they lost despite having the home court factor in their favor (1-3).
This season the equality has been maintained. The balance is three victories for each team, but Real Madrid won the most recent and transcendent duel, the Euroleague semifinal (66-78), as a step prior to their continental coronation.
One of the architects of that success was Walter Tavares, impregnable under paint. That will be one of the challenges for the Catalans: minimize the successes of the Cape Verdean player. They will also have to stop Sergio Rodríguez, another of the players who made the difference in the Final Four.
The first game of the Endesa League final between Barcelona and Real Madrid will be played this Friday, June 16, at 9:00 p.m. The meeting can be seen on television on Movistar and can be followed live on the La Vanguardia website.
