Barça 79 - 69 Urbas Fuenlabrada: Perfect record remains intact

Eight wins in the Liga. Barça beat Urbas Fuenlabrada (79-69) in an even contest that turned in Barça's favor in the third quarter. Mirotic received the MVP award for September from Audie Norris before the game. Higgins top scored for Barça with 13 points.

Even first half

The first half followed a similar pattern, with the away side taking a lead in both quarters before Barça roared back each time and they went in at the break with the score at 34-34.

Show of strength to seal the win

Barça upped the gears in the second half, with Jokubaitis leading the fight, going into the final quarter with the score 57-50. Barça then started to share the baskets around and went 71-52 up with five minutes to go. The visitors then saved faced by bringing it back to 79-69, but the damage was already done and the home side claimed their eighth win in eight games in the Liga.

Game stats:

Barça, 79
Urbas Fuenlabrada, 69

Barça: Laprovittola (10), Higgins (13), Martínez (4), Mirotic (7) y Sanli (4) – starters -, Davies (6), Smits (6), Hayes Davies (2), Oriola (2), Kuric (12), Jokubaitis (11) and Caicedo (2). 

Urbas Fuenlabrada: Novak (11), Armand (2), Emegano (10), Cheatham (12) y Alexander (13) – starters -, Samar (2), Vicedo (5), Macoha (2), Ristic (6), López (-), Bagayoko (-) and Gonzalez (6).

Interim scores: 21-19 / 13-15 / 23-16 / 22-19

Referees: Óscar Perea, Jorge Martínez and David Sánchez.