He stepped on Barcelona and Fener sees… an advantage

Space for a half, Fenerbahce defeated Barcelona 88-74 in the City and reasonably hopes even for home advantage. His team Sarunas Yasikevicius led by +24 at half-time, saw the Catalans close to three but with an excellent fourth period reached their 19th victory over Barcelona’s -8. The “blaugrana” remained at 20 wins and remained second after Monaco’s defeat by Armani Milano, while they now face Panathinaikos AKTOR at OAKA on Friday.

The leader was Scotty Wilbekin with 18 points, while they had 13 Nick Calathes (who also became the first… thief in the history of the Euroleague) and Marko Gudurichby Tyler Dorsey to have 4 points and 2 rebounds in 12:26, ​​but the George Papagiannis to play just 1:07. Only the Dario Brithuela with 18 points he saved for “Barca”.

The match

Fener entered the game determined and grabbed Barcelona by the throat. With excellent defense and Guduric leading the offense, the home team led 19-6 after seven and a half minutes and completely dominated the floor until the end of the period (23-11). And they didn’t stop there, since the nightmare for the “Blaugrana” continued, with the difference jumping to +23 (38-15), in the first four minutes of the second quarter. The downhill had no end for “Barca”, which reached -24 (46-22) just before halftime (46-25).

The Catalans decided to… play in the third quarter, as led by Brithuela and with an improved defense they started to eat away at the difference. With a partial 32-16 in the period, “Barca” closed the gap to five, 62-57, giving new interest to the game. The difference fell to all three (62-59) at the start of the fourth period, but a crescendo by Wilbekin put Fener away at 69-59, with Biberovic “cleaning up” the match, bringing the score to 82-67.

Quarters: 23-11, 46-25, 62-57, 88-74

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