On Saturday, on the eve of their visit to Zaporizhzhia for the group stage match of the Champions League with the champion of Ukraine "Prometey", the rival of our team "Unicaja" suffered a guest defeat in the Spanish championship against "Zaragoza" - 82:93. Dario Brizuila scored 24 points for Unicaja.

"Unicaja": Brizeula (24), Diaz (13), Barreiro (17), Kravic (10 + 5 assists), Abromaytis (8 + 6 rebounds) - starting five; Buteille (1), Alonso (1), Guerrero (2 + 8 rebounds), Nsosa (0), Suarez (2), Mooney (4).

The day after the failure of Prometey's rival, head coach Fotis Katsikaris was fired. Katsikaris' first assistant Angel Sanchez Canete will lead the team to the match with Prometey.

Currently, Unicaja with 6 wins in 16 matches occupies only 15th place in the Spanish championship.

The second rival of Prometey in the second group stage of the Champions League, the Belgian Ostende, with which the current champion of Ukraine will have to meet in Belgium on February 10, did not play this weekend. But the Romanian "Cluj-Napoca", with which the match of our team did not take place on February 1, won another, the 17th victory in a row in the Romanian championship. The leader of the championship beat "Rapid" in away match - 89:70.

"Cluj-Napoca": Grasu (9 + 6 rebounds), Kuti (12), Richard (3 + 4 assists), Brown (14), Bircevic (12) - starting five; Stewart (9 + 8 rebounds), Hogg (8), Guzman (9 + 4 steals), Koltsag (11), Pashka (2), Turdyan (0).

Today, on February 7, Cluj-Napoca will host Ostende within the frame of the the Champions League.