He bent Alba and remained… tight corset in Olympiaco-Real, Barcelona!

“Locked” the home advantage and continues to look… high n Barcelona!

Playing as long as needed and producing a good second half, the Blaugrana prevailed 72-56 of Alba Berlin in Spain for the 32nd matchday of the EuroLeague, and they remained in… behind the pioneer Olympiakos and Real.

Thanks to their good performance in the second 20 minutes with the partial score at 38-21, Sarunas Jasikevicius’ team went 2/2 in the bye week, remaining in third place with a 22-10 record. The first scorer for the winners was Sanli with 12 points, while closely followed by Miritch and Kalinic with 11 and 10 points respectively.

The match:



The game started with her Barcelona to enter the “Palau Blaugrana” court quite dynamically, where with Mirotic and Veseli in the foreground, he led 15-9 in the 5th minute. THE Alba Berlin reacted, and with the three-pointers of Smith and Lammers, but also the buzzer beater two-pointer of the latter at the end of the quarter, closed the period at +2 and 21-19.

The Germans continued in the second quarter to make it difficult for the Catalans, presenting an extremely competitive face. It is indicative that they had the upper hand in the score throughout the period, even reaching +6 for 30-24 at 15′, with the guests going to the locker room with a short head for the 35-34 of the half.

Barcelona looked completely different in the second half, with Sarunas Jasikevicius’s side improving defense her, thus “short-circuiting” the Alba game. With defense for… seminarthe “Blaugrana”, conceded just 7 points in the third quarter, leading to a score, closing the period at +6 for 48-42.

With his seven points Kalinic and five from him Sanli early in the fourth and final period, Barcelona blew the lead at +17 for 62-47 in the 34th minute, thus “cleaning up” the case of victory, with the last blow of the horn finding Barcelona with the pink match sheet with the final 72-56.

The quarters: 19-21, 34-35, 48-42, 72-56.