The… European action returns to OAKA, where the Panathinaikos AKTOR welcomes her Villerban (21:15, NovaSports Prime, sport-fm.gr, News Bulletin 247) for its 28th matchday Euroleague.
The “greens” come from the huge victory in Madrid over her Real (97-86), are tied for third in the standings with a record 17-10 and they know that every positive result brings them ever closer to the goal of home advantage.
The match with Villerban it is, both because of OAKA and because of the opponent’s low capacity, the absolute must-win for its entirety Ergin Ataman, as a possible defeat will be a big setback and will “erase” the “double” in the Spanish capital. On top of that, for the “greens” the pivotal match in the SEF against Olympiakos is coming up next game week (14/03).
On the other hand, and Villerbanby Pierrick Puppet now on the bench, it comes from a victory, as it prevailed hard with a score of 81-77 Armani Milan in Lyon, in the first match after the break. The French club has a record 6-21 and is in the penultimate position of the leaderboard, it has changed three coaches in the season and in general does not show any improvement from the beginning of the season until now.
Regarding the matches of the two teams, Mr Panathinaikos AKTOR will line up again without them Luka Vildosa and Costa Antetokounmpo, who did not play in Madrid either. Except for ASVEL will be the Paris Lee and Mike Scott. The former “green” guard suffers from pneumonia and will need to be sidelined for at least a week. On the other hand, the American forward hit the kneein the last league match.
“The match is dangerous because I think everyone is very relaxed. The team, the staff, I think the people too, everyone is relaxed ahead of this match because they think it will be an easy match for us. But, nothing is easy. We must be mentally ready. The team, the staff, us and certainly the people. In all the games we have played at home, the audience had a huge contribution. It’s a very dangerous game and we have to be ready.”said ahead of the match o Ergin Ataman.
The OAKA match will be whistled by Ilya Belosevic, Tomislav Hordov and Robert Wiklitsky. It is worth noting that Panathinaikos AKTOR will compete with the third, limited edition purple jersey of.
As for the other matches of the evening, Baskonia welcomes her in a must-win game Alba (21:30, NovaSports 5), while the They were partisans hosted in Milan by Armani (21:30, NovaSports 4), looking for a “double” so that he remains in contention for a place in the top ten.
The history of the two teams in detail:
1996/1997 (First Phase): Panathinaikos-Villeurban 66-72
1996/1997 (First Phase): Villerban-Panathinaikos 74-80
2000/2001 (Superleague First Phase): Panathinaikos-Villerban 86-82
2000/2001 (Superleague First Phase): Villerban-Panathinaikos 86-92
2019/2020 (Euroleague Regular Season): Villeurbanne-Panathinaikos 79-78
2019/2020 (Euroleague Regular Season): Panathinaikos-Villerban 100-88
2020/2021 (Euroleague Regular Season): Villeurbanne-Panathinaikos 97-73
2020/2021 (Euroleague Regular Season): Panathinaikos-Villerban 88-71
2021/2022 (Euroleague Regular Season): Panathinaikos-Villerban 70-84
2021/2022 (Euroleague Regular Season): Villeurbanne-Panathinaikos 63-76
2022/2023 (Euroleague Regular Season): Panathinaikos-Villerban 77-58
2022/2023 (Euroleague Regular Season): Villeurbanne-Panathinaikos 82-86
2023/2024 (Euroleague Regular Season): Villerban-Panathinaikos AKTOR 81-89
Total: Panathinaikos-Villerban 9-4
Source: Sport Fm
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