Olympiakos-Fenerbahce: For the rematch and the boost ahead of the playoffs, the “red and whites”

With a derby throws o Olympic curtain to this year’s regular season Euroleague.

In a crowded SEF, the “red and white” welcome her Fenerbahce (12/4, 21:15, www.sportfm.gr, News Bulletin 247, Novasports Prime), for 34th matchday.

Both have secured their direct participation in the playoffswith the Piraeus at 21-12while on the other hand his team Sarunas Yasikevicius follow me 20-13. In case of victory, Olympiacos will finish in fifth place and respectively the Turks in the sixth. In this case, the “red and white” will play with a home disadvantage against Barcelona in the playoffs.

On the contrary, if Fener leaves with the pink card from SEF then they will finish the regular season as fifth and the “red and whites” one place down. In this case, the team of Piraeus will play with Monaco. In the meantime, in the match of the first round, the Turks had prevailed by a margin 79-77by Dimitris Itoudis then on the bench.

Since then, Olympiacos is on a six-game winning streak in all competitions. In the Euroleague, Piraeus have three consecutive pink cards, defeating in a row Villerban within and the They were partisans and the Red Star, inside Belgrade. The last game of the “red and white” was for its Top 6 Stoiximan Basket League. There, his team Giorgos Bartzokas he accepted it Pigeon bwinwhere it took a storming fourth quarter to bend its resistance and prevail 91-83.

As far as the competitive part is concerned, in the last few days Olympiacos has been working on… full. And that’s because, the Nikola Milutinov and Philip Petrusev participate in the group program, but their participation is doubtful.

On the other hand, Fenerbahce comes to SEF with a damaged prestige. Sarunas Jasikevicius’ team had a difficult week, as they met back-to-back defeats in a derby with her Anatolou Efes and indeed both within her court. The first was the previous matchday of the Euroleague, where the Turkish champions prevailed with the marginal 82-80. A few days later, the two teams talked about the country’s domestic league, with his Tomislav Mijatovic to win again, this time with the imposing 90-80.

At the same time, Saras has two important “headaches” on the front line. In addition to the match against Olympiakos, he will be Jonathan Motley, who struck in the last derby with Efes and did not follow the mission to Piraeus. On the other hand, he also has a problem Sertach Sanliwho came with the team, but his participation will be decided at the last minute.

The referees of the match will be Matej Bolthauser (Slovenia), Tomislav Hordov (Croatia) and Olegs Latishevs (Latvia).