Galatasaray-PAOK: Difficult start but with faith and dreams in the city of the “two-headed of the north”

After yesterday’s matches between AEK Betsson BC and Peristeri bwin, tonight, it’s his turn PAOK to throw himself into his battle Basketball Champions League!

This year’s European trip of the “two-headed team of the north” starts from a difficult home, since the Thessalonikians are invited to face the Galatasaray at “Sinan Erdem” (19:00) in Istanbul, in the premiere of the 7th group of the competition.

His team Foti Takianou counts four official games, with a tally of three losses and one win. The first and only pink card so far came in Saturday’s away league game against the Marousi (75-80) with Fredrickson and Harrison leading the way in scoring with 22 and 19 points respectively.

THE Galatasaray for its part, it is coming off a 76-74 away loss to Petkimspor for Game 3 of the Turkish League, thus dropping at 2-1. The Turks are the big favorites to win the first place in the group, while the group still includes Hapoel Jerusalem and the Benfica.

The only absence for PAOK is Stathis Schizas o did not follow the team’s mission to Istanbul. The “present” at the match will be the President of KAE PAOK mateco Thanasis Hatzopoulos, the vice-president Vassilis Trilyrakis, as well as the major sponsor Antonis Tsalopoulos.

Regarding the tradition of the two teams, tonight will be the Wednesday their meeting. The Turks are 2-1, while in the most recent match between them they won 87-75 in Polis in December 2021 again for the BCL.