In Madrid, Real hosts Panathinaikos for the 22nd matchday of the Euroleague, in the first game it will play this week for the competition.
“Green” comes from winning with 102-70 over Ionikos for the 14th game of the Basket League, but also from the great performance and victory over Zalgiris in OAKA (89-65) and are at 8-13.
The “clover” flew on Tuesday morning to Spain, where it will face Real in Madrid on Wednesday and Baskonia in Vitoria on Friday. Out of Dejan Radonić’s plans are the injured Mateus Ponitka and Lefteris Mantzoukasas well as the unprepared Lefteris Bohorides.
On the other hand, the team of Chus Mateo is in a very good playing condition, they have a record 14-7 and counts three consecutive victories, two for the Euroleague and one for the Spanish championship, being in second place in the best basketball organization in Europe, having, of course, one game less than Olympiacos.
The “merenches” coach will not have him at his disposal Ambaldewhile he spoke with very good words about Panathinaikos.
“Both teams have changed since we last met. Last week Panathinaikos caused offensive problems against Zalgiris and before that they put Virtus on the wall. They have huge attacking talent, Bacon and Williams make a lot of decisions in attack, but we can’t forget names like Walters, Grigonis, Papagiannis, Gudaitis, Ponitka.
They have great scoring potential and we have to be focused to try and get the game under our control. For this to happen we have to play good defense because Panathinaikos is a team you can’t give anything to. We have to crush their defense and follow the game plan in attack,” were his words.
In the previous duel between them, on October 6, 2022, Real had left OAKA with the double, winning 71-68.
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