With the aim of winning or winning, after the defeat last weekend, Aloe Plus Lanzarote Conejero was presented to its fans at the Lanzarote Sports City Pavilion, receiving the visit of CB Pozuelo. As happened in the match against Real Madrid, the Lanzarote team turned the game around in the last ten minutes, and overcame an eleven-point deficit.
The start of the match could not have been more encouraging, with a lead of up to seven points for the team trained by Federico Toledo, who seemed to have grasped the meaning of the match very early, something important considering the short bench that the Lanzarote coach had for this match. The injury of Ander Fernández, the absence of Janko Rankonjac for not yet having the international transfer or the state of Charles Yassi, who had just come out of an injury and is still not at 100x100 of his possibilities, diminished the options of the Lanzarote team..
But that dazzling start was coming to an end and in the middle of the first quarter the Madrid team managed to equalize, which with the changes it made even took a seven-point lead in its favor, with which they went to the end of the first quarter. With the score of 17 to 24, the first ten minutes of the game came to an end.
The second quarter was not much better for the locals. The team trained by Mariano Arasa went all out and extended the differences to fifteen points, which seemed to be final. Attempts to reduce the differences seemed unsuccessful. The successes from the outside zone of the Madrid team were doing a lot of damage to the local defense and the offensive game of the Lanzarote team did not have the effectiveness of other matches. In the last moments of the second quarter, Aloe Plus Lanzarote Conejero made up the score, going to the break eight points down, 39 to 47.
After the return from the locker room, Federico Toledo's team started strongly, coming back and getting closer on the scoreboard. It seemed that another epic afternoon-night of basketball could be experienced again at the Lanzarote Sports City Pavilion. However, CB Pozuelo once again broke the local defense and took the lead. The attempts to come back were in vain and the third quarter ended with an eleven-point lead for the Madrid team, 59 to 70.
In the last quarter, the public present encouraged their players and became the sixth man, the one they needed to change the dynamics of the match, making a partial score of 12 to 0, going from 59 ? 70 to 71 ? 70, forcing the visiting coach to ask for a time-out and look for solutions. It seemed that they were arriving when, after returning to the court, CB Pozuelo took a six-point lead in their favor and Acoydán McCarthy was injured. But again the public led their team to continue believing, "cured" Acoydán of his injury and Aloe Plus Lanzarote Conejero turned the game around, even took a wide advantage and ended up winning 87 to 82, adding the Lanzarote team its seventh victory of the season.
Next week the rival of Aloe Plus Lanzarote Conejero will be Estudio, a team that arrives in the same conditions, 7 wins and 10 losses.
Technical Sheet
Aloe Plus Lanzarote Conejero (87): Víctor Bermúdez (21), Acoydán McCarthy (16), Javier Herrero (19), Richard Nguema (12) and Azziz Leeks (10). Also played Elvis Pereira, Charles Yassi (2), Josafat Martín and Óliver Delgado (7).
CB Pozuelo (82): Alberto Martín (13), Alberto Arias (4), Daniel Busto (12), José Luis Galocha (6) and Borja López (22). Also played Javier Vicente (5), Jorge González (2), Alejandro Cue (7), Alberto Cañal (6) and Daniel Muñoz (5).
Referees: Aldo Rodríguez and Yurena Hernández. Without eliminated.
Partial scores each quarter: 17-24 / 39-47 (break) 59-70 / 87-82 (final)
Incidents: Match belonging to the 17th day of the EBA League played in the Pavilion of the Sports City of Lanzarote (Arrecife) before about 300 spectators
