Euroleague 2nd round: Two female champions in the Istanbul arena

After a very impressive premiere in Euroleaguewhere we had big matches, impressive phases, but also surprises, Europe’s top league officially enters its second turn.

The program of Thursday (12/10), which opens the curtain of the competition, includes a total of four matches. The first match in time is the one between Anatolou Efes and the European champion, Real Madrid, in “Sinan Erdem” of Istanbul (20:30). The Turks come from the heavy away defeat with 91-74 against Barcelona, ​​unlike the “merenches” who entered the competition with the right hand with the difficult and stressful double over Baskonia (77-79). In fact, on Monday, the Madrid team faced Luka Doncic’s Dallas Mavericks in a friendly match, which they defeated with an impressive 127-123!

Half an hour later, Alba Berlin welcomes her Baskonia at the “Mercedes Benz Arena”. Both started the Euroleague with defeats, as in addition to the defeat of the Basques by Real, the Berliners left empty-handed from the German derby against Bayern Munich (80-68). Both the ones and the ones are still being searched at the start of this season and everything tonight in terms of the final result looks open.

At the same time, her match is taking place Villerban with the They were partisansat “Astroball” of Lyon. Second consecutive match against Serbs for the French, after they left Belgrade with their heads bowed in the premiere with the heavy 94-73. A result that was also the widest in terms of scores in the first matchday. Partizan also comes from a heavy defeat, with the “black and white” losing 96-81 to Maccabi in Tel Aviv, in a game where Zelimir Obradovic had many complaints from his players.

Finally, at 21:15, o Panathinaikos hosts in the packed OAKA the Bayern Munich of Pablo Lasso, with the “greens” aspiring to return to victories and good performances after the defeat in the “eternal” derby by Olympiakos.