The tie forces L'Spar Girona to break 7 years of drought in Fontajau with its youth players affected

L'Spar Girona receives València in Fontajau, obliged to come back to play their first final in seven years. Íñiguez's team faces the tie with medical doubts and wear on its key players.

11 of may of 2026 at 17:24h
The tie forces L'Spar Girona to break 7 years of drought in Fontajau with its youth players affected
The tie forces L'Spar Girona to break 7 years of drought in Fontajau with its youth players affected

L'Spar Girona receives València at 7 p.m. in Fontajau with the obligation to overcome the disadvantage from the first leg to reach the final for the first time in seven years.

The series also arrives marked by the physical doubts of Leticia Romero and Klara Holm, two players who ended up touched in Thursday's match.

Fontajau hosts a match that decides access to the final

The duel will be broadcast on Esport3 and Teledeporte and comes with Roberto Íñiguez's team forced to react after the stumble in the first round.

In that match, L'Spar Girona led 65-55 with 3:25 left, but ended up yielding after a basket by Coulibaly with the buzzer sounding and a missed three-pointer by Leticia Romero with less than four seconds left.

Holm was the most valued player of that game, with 28 minutes on the court before retiring in the last three and a half minutes due to a muscle tear in the quarter-finals.

Roberto Íñiguez coaches his first game since forcing presence in the Euroleague Final Six and the Cup.

Injuries and minutes force a reorganization of the distribution

Leticia Romero is carrying an ankle sprain suffered a week ago against Leganés, while Carter has not played for over a month.

Canella accumulates more than three games out since the match in Leganés, although against València she ended up as the highest rated with 27 in 22 minutes, thanks to 12 points, five rebounds, six assists and five steals.

Jocyte played 32 minutes, Coulibaly 30, and Holm 28 in the first leg, a workload that explains the narrow margin of maneuver before a tie that demands freshness in the final stretch.

In the same league game against Valencia, won 96-68, Bibby scored 15 points in less than 20 minutes and Coulibaly added 17.

Merceron and Cornelius were not yet part of the squad in that match, and Jocyte will join the Valkyries when the league ends.

"All hours count and tomorrow we will see how they have woken up, we will get an idea and we will see if someone can help us. They also surprise me, and that makes me positive because they will try, those who have problems, they will try" - Roberto Íñiguez, coach of L'Spar Girona

Íñiguez also asked in the preview for the team to be prepared for everything and for the crowd to be one of their strong points in Fontajau.

If Casademont beats Avenida by more than two points, second place in the regular league will give a ticket for the next Euroleague.

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