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Monaco-Olympic: Difficult and demanding exit for the promoted “red and white”

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One of the most difficult and demanding away games in this year’s Euroleague is called for tonight (20:00, Novasports 4, News Bulletin 247, sport-fm.gr) Olympicwho is hosted at “Salle Gaston Medecin” by Monaco for the 11th matchday of the competition.

The “red and white” are hopefully in a good competitive “moon”, counting six consecutive wins in Greece and Europe in the last 20 days. Having overcome the many injury problems that plagued him since the beginning of the season, the Piraeus club is slowly starting to pick up the pace, which is also reflected in the leaderboard of the top European competition, having the fourth best record with 6 wins and 4 losses.

Last week, the whole of it Giorgos Bartzokas celebrated a comfortable 89-72 home victory over Zalgiris in a packed SEF, having Isaiah Caanan (25 points), Alec Peters (22 points, 6 rebounds) and Thomas Walkup (14 points, 5 assists) have a great night. This was also the team’s third consecutive victory in the tournament, after they were preceded by those against Red Star (88-83) and Maccabi Tel Aviv (74-79). In the most recent match, that of the championship, on Monday, they prevailed with relative ease 87-74 of Peristeri bwin.

On the other hand now, the Monegasques, are in 6th place in the Euroleague standings, having the same record as Olympiakos (6-4). After two defeats in the institution, the whole of it Sasha Obradovic he returned to the pink sheets last week, leaving with a very difficult double from the Basque country and the home of Baskonia (75-77), thanks to Blossomgame’s winning follow 2.5 seconds before the final!

Regarding her last competitive game in the championship, it is surprising that she played on Tuesday night, in the away victory over Le Mans (84-95) for LNB. A condition that may play its role, since the whole of the Principality had just two 24 hours to prepare for tonight’s match, while it will be interesting to see if Monaco will be affected by any fatigue and strain of the roster that has been there since said match.

In the competition now, Olympiacos will not have him available tonight for the fifth consecutive match Nigel Williams-Gossas of course the two new transfer acquisitions of the team, Mitrou-Long and Petrushev. However, the Serb is quite likely to make his debut next week in the home game against Real Madrid. As for Monaco, there will be a full line-up.

Carlos Peruga (Spain), Piotr Pastusiak (Poland) and Arturas Sukis (Lithuania) were appointed to direct the match.

Source: Sport Fm

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