Fat… Villerban’s hunnery at Red Star with a stunner!

Bumpy… landing for him Red Star in Lyon!

After two consecutive victories, the “red and whites” of Belgrade appeared far below the circumstances, knowing the defeat 100-91 from the Villerbanin “Astroball”!

In his debut Pierrick PuppetASVEL achieved their second straight win, going to 4-16. On the other hand, his team Yannis Sfeiropoulou yielded to 8-12.

Leading for Villerban was Paris Lee with 23 points and 7 assists, while a very good performance from Joffrey Lauvergne with 17 points and even with 7/7 two-pointers and 3/3 shots!

From the Red Star, he stood out Nemanja Nedovic with 26 points, with Yago Dos Santos to add 16p. and 9 assists.

The match

Better start from Red Star, who initially went to +5 (7-12) and despite the fast pace of the game, even reached +9 (16-25), at 7′. However, the final minutes belonged to Villerban and thanks to Yaakov he went on a 9-0 run until the end of the first period for the tie (25-25).

The derby continued in the second quarter as well, with the two teams tied (45-45) until 18′. In the last two minutes, the “red and whites” did not score a basket, with Ediage making the score 48-45 in the first half.

Fall sent Villerban to +5 (50-45) at the beginning of the second half, with Red Star responding with individual scores of 8-2 to overtake (52-53), in the 22nd minute. The French fought back for their own +5 (58-53), keeping their lead until the end of the third period (70-67).

Villerban started the fourth period with more… momentum, as a result of which they initially escaped to +9 (83-74) and with Lee’s three-pointer to +11 (88-77), in the 35th minute. From that point on, Yannis Sfeiropoulos’ team went out of the game, with the home team even going to +15 (98-83) and taking the victory with the final 100-91.

The ten minutes: 25-25, 48-45, 70-67, 100-91

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