BC "Prometey" - BC "Lenovo Tenerife". October 6. 19:00. Champions League. Group round. Group "A". 1st round. Zaporizhie. Palace of Sports "Youth". Broadcast: "XSPORT".

 

Tomorrow, on October 6, a significant event in the history of our club will take place: for the first time our team will start the match with the Spanish "Lenovo Tenerife" in the group round of the Champions League. Prometey is one of 32 European teams that will play in 8 groups of the regular season. Following the results of 6 rounds the winners of groups will receive direct tickets to the next group round; the teams that take the last places will stop participating in the tournament, and those who will be in 2nd and 3rd positions, in early January 2022 will play a playoff round to two victories. The play-in format is already known: 2 teams from our group "A" (except "Prometey" and "Tenerife" will be attended by Italian "Dynamo Sassari" and "Riesen Ludwigsburg" from Germany) will play with the 3rd group " B ", and the 3rd with" A "- with the 2nd with" B ". Group "B" includes the Turkish "Pinar Karshiyaka", the Spanish "Manresa", the Polish "Wielkopolska Island" and the Israeli "Hapoel" from Jerusalem.

Perhaps, there is a symbolic fact that the first opponent of our team will be the owner of the main trophy of the first draw of the popular tournament, which took place in the 2016/2017 season, the Spanish club "Lenovo Tenerife". This club is a regular member of the Champions League. In the last two seasons, the team reached the quarterfinals, and in May of this year, “Lenovo Tenerife” lost at this stage to the French "Strasbourg" - 86:88 only in overtime.

Prometey head coach Ronen Ginzburg pays tribute to the experienced Eurocup fighter: "It is a great honor for us to play with such an opponent! This is a very strong team that represents one of the strongest leagues in Europe. I do not see any weaknesses in Tenerife, so we have to play very well against such opponent in order to win. "

Now in the Spanish league ACB "Lenovo Tenerife" is in the middle of the standings: 9th place with 18 participants. At the same time, if we talk about the opponent of "Prometey", we must always remember - and we can not disagree with Ronen Ginzburg - that the club from the Canary Islands is a representative of the elite championship by European standards. In terms of the game, the most important factor of Jesus Vidorreta's team is that it plays modern European basketball. If we decipher this concept a little more, it should be noted that "Tenerife" offers any opponent many interactions, and each of them has several options, which is extremely inconvenient for those who oppose the Spaniards.

The clear leaders of Lenovo Tenerife are the players of the back line Bruno Fitipaldo and Marcelinho Huertas, as well as the Georgian center Giorgi Shermadini. Uruguayan Bruno Fitipaldo is an athletic shooter who is always ready to play a combination with each of his partners. The main organization of the game is the responsibility of the experienced (38 years old!) Wertas. The Brazilian is by far the best assistant of the team. Georgian Giorgi Shermadini will not play in Zaporizhia due to injury. His return to the team is expected in a few weeks, and so far the club has signed Julian Gamble to replace him, and this American bigman has already proved himself, scoring 12 points in the last match with "Real" in 12 minutes.

Lenovo Tenerife's assets are far from being limited to these performers. Yes, many combinations of the opponent are fitted on the free throws of the Finnish shooter Sasu Salina. Aaron Doornekamp is a great universal player that can benefit the team in positions 2 to 4. the field center Fran Guerra (214 cm tall) is always dangerous because he is the one who is able to "fall" rival’s three-second zone and effectively complete the attack.

However, everything listed above does not mean that Lenovo Tenerife has no weaknesses. There are some that have any team in the world, and we hope that our "Prometey", as Ronen Ginzburg said, will be able to play their game, make the match go according to their own script and eventually achieve a historic victory!

The course of the match "Prometey" - "Lenovo Tenerife" can be watched on October 6 from 19:00 on the TV channel "XSPORT".