Against the formed Zalgiris Panathinaikos will play tonight at the OAKA stadium (22:00), for the 21st matchday of the Euroleague.
The “greens” come to tonight’s match after their very difficult victory in Lavrio last Sunday (22/1) for the 13th “turn” of the Basket League, wanting to return to positive results in the Euroleague, after last week’s defeat in Bologna, by Virtus.
At 16th in the standings with a 7-13 record the team of Dejan Radonic, who will certainly not have the injured at his disposal Bohorides and Manjuka. On the other, Gudaitis and Walters they followed part of yesterday’s (25/1) training and will logically get minutes of participation.
As for her Zalgiriscomes from four straight wins in the Euroleague against Fenerbahce, Virtus, Armani Milano and Red Star, thanks to which he was promoted to 5th place of the rating. In the 12-8 her record entering the 21st matchday, he is just one win away from the top.
“We want to get revenge for our defeat in Kaunas, where we had one of our worst performances in the first round. We then allowed Panathinaikos and their very good players to play their game. I hope we have learned our lesson since then.”said the coach of Zalgiris, Kazis Maksvitiswho will not have the injured at his disposal Evans, Cavan, Taylor and Lelevicius.
In the first round match in Kaunas, last December, Panathinaikos won 81-67, led by Williams (25 points) and Bacon (19 points), while the referees of tonight’s match will be Olegs Latishevs ( Latvia), Milan Nedovic (Slovenia) and Carmelo Paternico (Italy).
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