After one great gamethe Virtus Bologna prevailed upon her Armani Milan with 86-79 in the Italian derby, for the 8th matchday of this year Euroleague.
Man of the match for the winners o Lundberg with 19 points, 14 of them in the last quarter, but also 5 rebounds, the Abbas he was the one who… started the counterattack, while o Sengelia had 14 points and 6 rebounds and o Hackett added 10 more, with 7 assists!
Leader of the defeated o Shieldswith 21 points, 4 rebounds and 3 steals, 16 had Mirotic with 7 “garbage”, while o Lo contributed another 13 points and 6 assists…
Virtus arrived at 6-2 and remained 3rd, while Armani fell to 2-6 and figures in the 16th position of the rating.
The match:
The visitors took the lead with the… jamball and kept it throughout the first quarter, which however had several “empty” intervals, with both teams not finding easy scores initially. A big star for Armani, which led four times with five points and once with six (s.p. 5-0, 12-7, 20-15, 23-17, 25-20 and finally 26-21) was Shields with 9 points and 3 assists and Hines adding 6 and 3 rebounds. With Belinelli scoring 8 points for Virtus in that span.
End of the first quarter: Olimpia ahead 26-21. Shields 9, Hines 6#together #ForzaOlympia #VIREA7 pic.twitter.com/Qmo4zywBZ8
— Olimpia Milano (@OlimpiaMI1936) November 14, 2023
On the contrary, in the second period Dobrich with 8 points became a factor in the game, bringing it in absolute balance in its midst. With the Serbian ace tying the score at 33-33 for the home team… From there on… Abbas took action, scoring 10 points and giving his team the lead for the first time, 43-40, with almost a minute to go. expiry! Law also had 10 points in the same period for Milan, but two shots from Lundberg “wrote” the 45-40 of the break.
Armani entered the third quarter on a 6-0 run and reclaiming its lead in the first 1.5 minutes, to then follow a constant change in the score, until it became 54-50 with Voigtman reaching 6 points in that period and Luca Banki taking a time out. With 5 consecutive points from Hackett, Bologna “came back” immediately after and went to +4 (60-56), only to have two consecutive three-pointers by Mirotic-Shields (s.s. reached 11 and 14 points respectively) and the 60-62. After back-to-back mistakes on both sides and nearly two minutes without a score, Abbas made it 63-62, while Sengelia set up the 65-63.
Dobric feeds Shengelia on a pick & roll, and the latter takes off to rock the rim!??#MagicMoment I @VirtusSegafredo pic.twitter.com/EGP07xcDgB
— Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) November 14, 2023
The two teams were nervous at the start of the last period where it took almost two minutes for a basket by Lundberg to make it 67-63. In fact, the Danish guard scored a basket and a foul, giving Virtus a seven-point lead, with Milan unable to find solutions and Ettore Messina hastily calling a time out! Lundberg remained… on fire, reaching 10 points in the period for the home team’s +7, almost four minutes before the end (75-68), with Voigtman “collecting” the difference afterwards with five points of his own (77-73). While with a three-pointer by Shields, the match went to the basket (81-79), almost a minute before the end… Another “five point” from Lundberghowever, shaped the final 86-79 and gave the trigger for celebrations in the stands!
The ten minutes: 21-26, 24-14, 20-23, 21-16.
The match statistics
Source: Sport Fm
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