Thomas Heurtel helped Real Madrid in tough win against Malaga / News - Basketnews.com

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Real Madrid (17-4) remained at the top of ACB standings after beating Unicaja Malaga (7-12) in a tough battle with the final score of 92-91 (25-23, 22-26, 18-16, 27-26).

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The French duo of Thomas Heurtel and Fabien Causeur was the key to the win of Real Madrid. Both players finished with 16 points and made some really tough buckets in the final stretch of the game.

Malaga, who just hired their new coach Ibon Navarro, went really close to a big win but they weren't able to finish the job.

Real Madrid: Thomas Heurtel 16, Fabien Causeur 16, Vincent Poirier 11

Unicaja Malaga: Dario Brizuela 18, Jonathan Barreiro 13, Abromaitis 11, Ruben Guerrero 10 (7 REB)

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