Surne Bilbao, without Hlinason, will debut in the Champions League on the court of the Bosnian Ascension

Surne Bilbao, after winning the last two editions of the FIBA Europa Cup, will debut this season in the Champions League, visiting this Tuesday theBosnian team Igokea en on the Lactasi court (20:00) on the first day of the group stage. Kirolakeitb.eus will offer the match live, via streaming, from 19:55.

After opening his champion in the elite with that trophy, the Bilbao team has decided to step up, so that Surn will face, in addition to the Balkan team trained by Nenad Stefanovic, the newly merged Nymburk Slavia Prague and Alba Berlin in the Champions League phase.

The Ascension has only played one official match this season, in which it won the Adriatic League against Slovan Bratislava (97-89). American base Roman Penn scored 18 points and distributed 9 assists.

The Bosnian team is physically strong, includingNikola Manojlovic (2.01 meters) and Dorde Topolovic (2.08), who scored 16 points and 7 rebounds against Slovan.

In Ponsarnau's words, the Ascension isarival "very well trained" by Nenad Stefanovic . "He knows what he wants to play, and he has a lot of players who can contribute," he warned.

The men in black face the premiere of the Champions League just 48 hours after losing Leyma in the extension on the A Coruña court, a match from which Jaume Ponsarnau's came out with various physical problems .

The most serious was that of Tryggvi Hlinason, who, after bumping into Dino Radoncic, was forced to score at the U00a0 and lost the last few minutes of the game, so the Icelandic pivot will be low in the Surne Bilbao European debut.

After the match against the Galician team, Hlinason travelled to Bilbao "to undergo the necessary medical examinations as is customary in this type of trauma "and, in the end, has not participated in the long trip of the Bilbaíno team to Bosnia.

The Biscayan team spent the night in Malaga, where it arrived on Sunday afternoon from A Coruña. On Monday it flew from the Malagasy capital toZagreb, from where it made a bus trip of about three hours to Banja Luka, where it has its concentration hotel, about 20 minutes from Lactasi.

"The blow to Tryggvi's head has made it advisable to be under surveillance, and it was not the time to take risks, and besides, they're not just physical, they're more things. We think it 's not going to be serious and we're going to be able to get the player back soon, but not for this game, "Ponsarnau explained.