Barça will have to face the next two games, both in the Euroleague and in the Endesa League without their great star, Nikola Mirotic, who confirmed his second positive for covid19 on Saturday night after a second test carried out on the Hispanic-Montenegrin player.
MIrotic, who already suffered covid19 in his flesh in 2020, saw how the PCR was carried out this Saturday confirmed the antigen test that had been performed on Friday. a news that the club did not want to confirm until late on Saturday, a few hours after the match against Valencia Basket was postponed due to covid-19 cases in Joan Peñarroya’s team.
A positive from Mirotic that comes at a bad time for the team when he was taking flight after having conceded three consecutive defeats, against Bitci Baskonia, BAXI Manresa and Armani Jeans Milan and had managed to stop the bleeding against the European champion, Anadolu Efes (82-77).
Barca break
The news of Mirotic’s new positive fell like a jug of cold water on Saras Jasikevicius’s team, thinking about the double commitment that awaits him this week, with the visit to UNICS Kazan next Thursday (17.00) and the Clásico on Sunday, the 23rd, against Real Madrid, in a match that had already been postponed due to the cases of covid-19 in the Madrid team.
Mirotic is a fundamental piece in the Barça team, where he averages 15, 2 points per game, and is the fifth best rated in the competition domestic, with an average of 17.8.
In the Euroleague, their contribution is even greater, being the top scorer in the European tournament, with an average of 17.7 points, and also the one he values the most, with an average of 21.6 per game.
Sensitive drop for UNICS
A sensitive and safe low for the game against UNICS Kazan this Thursday, where the Russian team is sure to be very keen on Barça after letting the victory slip away after having come to dominate from 20 points.
Your presence in Next Sunday’s Clásico is also an unknown since the player will have barely spent seven days since he tested positive. The club will continue to perform PCR on him from the fifth day to get a negative result that allow the match to be played in Madrid, scheduled for Sunday, 23.
With MIrotic, There are hardly any players left who have not passed the virus. The power forward remained negative during the worst outbreak that led to eight players to get infected Now it has become the ninth.
Cory Higgins, Rokas Jokubaitis, Sertac Sanli, Rolands Smits, and Alex Abrines have not passed the virus, who is recovering from his long-distance injury. Let’s hope they don’t end up adding to their already recovered teammates.
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