Virtus Bologna-Olympiakos: Full for the double-return the “red and white”

After a restful weekend with no racing action, apart from the select few who took part in the “relaxed” All Star GameThe Olympic begins his “devil’s week” with a difficult match in Italy, against Virtus Bologna (21:30, NovaSports Prime, News Bulletin 247, sport-fm.gr).

This confrontation comes as a continuation of the “infatuation” with the Valencia. The “red and whites” showed a very bad face and were defeated with a score of 63-56 by the Spanish team in CHEF, losing significant ground, since that defeat came against an opponent who is a competitor for the top eight. Despite this, the negative playing face is what troubled the most, since offensively Olympiacos made its worst appearance in the last three years, falling to 7-7 in the standings.

Now, his team Giorgos Bartzokas are aiming for the ‘double’ as they look for big away wins to make up for the 4 home defeats that came to their Spanish sides Euroleague. Nevertheless, the match is anything but easy, as the “red and whites” will need to compete with one of the best teams in Europe.

THE Virtues has a 10-4 record and is tied for second place with the Barcelonawhile he is in excellent condition with 3 consecutive victories against the “Blaugrana”, the Maccabi and Baskonia. In the league, despite this, they lost in the last matchday, and even at home, after being defeated in extra time by Venice with a score of 85-84. Led by him Tornik Sengelia and “soul” the reborn Marco BelinelliVirtus is playing amazing basketball, especially at “Segafredo Arena”, where they have 7 wins in 8 matches.

The important thing for him George Bartzokas is that he will have all the players available in this difficult match, for the first time this year. THE Alec Peters he will play normally after his absence against Valencia due to the birth of his child and will provide offensive solutions that were missing, while the “red and whites” do not face any other problems. He will not play, of course Naz Mitrou-Long, which does not yet have the right to participate. On the other hand, for Virtus, he will definitely be out Jordan Mickeywhile Luca Banki has no other injuries to manage.

In view of this confrontation, Mr George Bartzokas stated: “Bologna are third at the moment, not by schedule, that is because they had a favorable schedule, but because they deserve it. It is a team whose quality and the way it plays are reflected in its ranking position. I remember that it is the team that was perhaps the most crowded last year towards the end of the standings and the same team this year with a different motivation from the players, with a different understanding, with a different way of playing perhaps, they have reached the point of being very fair at the top .

Their home ground is difficult and last year we won very hard there. It’s a team that Mickey is missing at the moment, but Dunston and Sengelia you don’t know who’s ‘5’, who’s ‘4’, they rotate. But in general they have a flow in the way they attack that has a lot of speed, they all play together. Of course, there is also great quality. There are also players like Cordinier who have improved their game tremendously since last year. In general, it’s a team that plays very well.”