Armed, stubborn and determined, Mr Olympic welcomes her Barcelona (19:45, Novasports 4, News Bulletin 247 and sport-fm.gr) at SEF. The “red and whites” after the defeat on Holy Tuesday must win to draw at 2-2 and claim a place in the Final 4 next week in Barcelona. It should be noted that a team has NEVER won Game 5 away from home, but… let’s not get ahead of ourselves, since for Olympiakos the priority is victory tonight.
THE George Bartzokas will have all players available this time. THE Kostas Papanikolaou who was ruled out at the last minute for Game 3, this time is expected to get playing time, with Ignas Brazdeikis likely to be left out of the lineup. It is expected that this time he will also be able to participate Nikola Milutinov after the… nil of the previous match.
Piraeus have several things to fix. First and foremost is their effectiveness in attack. In the three games of the series, they are making 20/70 three-pointers (28.5%) and scoring just 72.3 points per game, so the question is to increase their production. Olympiakos’ defense is effective, although in Game 3 Barcelona had 44% on three-pointers and 26 assists to 11 turnovers.
On the contrary, “Barca” wants to… finish the job by investing in the pressure that Olympiacos has, in order not to be led to the fifth final of the finals in “Palau Blaugrana”.
The referees of the match will be Sreten Radovic (Croatia), Saša Pukl (Slovenia) and Tomislav Hordov (Croatia).
For the 44th time
Olympiacos and Barcelona count 43 matches in the past, with the score 18-25 in favor of the Catalans. Of course, they are dominated by two grand finals in 1997 in Rome with the “red and white” winners and in 2010 in Paris with the “blaugrana” winners. Also the two teams had met in 2012 semi-final in Polisshortly before the second European Cup of Piraeus, but also in 2015 playoffs, when Olympiacos had advanced to the Final 4 with Giorgos Printezis’ buzzer beater three-pointer. The… story in detail:
15/12/93: Barcelona-Olympic 73-69 (Round of 16)
16/02/94: Olympiacos-Barcelona 82-64 (Round of 16)
04/01/95: Olympiacos-Barcelona 99-78 (Round of 16)
23/02/95: Barcelona-Olympic 79-64 (Round of 16)
24/04/97: Olympiacos-Barcelona 73-58 (Final)
20/03/03: Barcelona-Olympic 80-77 (Top 16)
10/04/03: Olympiacos-Barcelona 55-58 (Top 16)
03/11/05: Barcelona-Olympic 86-70 (Regular Season)
12/22/05: Olympiacos-Barcelona 80-68 (Regular Season)
09/03/06: Barcelona-Olympic 76-72 (Top 16)
23/03/06: Olympiacos-Barcelona 67-74 (Top 16)
03/05/09: Olympiacos-Barcelona 79-95 (Mini Final)
09/05/10: Barcelona-Olympic 86-68 (Final)
11/05/12: Olympiacos-Barcelona 68-64 (Semifinal)
11/01/13: Barcelona-Olympic 76-68 (Top 16)
07/03/13: Olympiacos-Barcelona 77-90 (Top 16)
16/01/14: Olympiacos-Barcelona 72-81 (Top 16)
14/03/14: Barcelona-Olympic 70-58 (Top 16)
04/15/15: Barcelona-Olympic 73-57 (Play Offs)
04/17/15: Barcelona-Olympiacos 63-76 (Play Offs)
21/04/15: Olympiacos-Barcelona 73-71 (Play Offs)
23/04/15: Olympiacos-Barcelona 71-68 (Play Offs)
29/12/15: Olympiacos-Barcelona 74-62 (Top 16)
26/02/16: Barcelona-Olympic 82-66 (Top 16)
11/16/16: Olympiacos-Barcelona 59-52 (Regular Season)
12/01/17: Barcelona-Olympiacos 67-69 (Regular Season)
03/11/17: Barcelona-Olympiacos 73-51 (Regular Season)
15/03/18: Olympiacos-Barcelona 63-90 (Regular Season)
18/12/18: Barcelona-Olympic 60-69 (Regular Season)
31/01/19: Olympiacos-Barcelona 55-76 (Regular Season)
27/12/19: Barcelona-Olympic 90-80 (Regular Season)
08/12/20: Barcelona-Olympiacos 88-96 (Regular Season)
29/01/20: Olympiacos-Barcelona 74-76 (Regular Season)
13/10/21: Barcelona-Olympic 79-78 (Regular Season)
04/01/22: Olympiacos-Barcelona 73-66 (Regular Season)
21/05/22: Barcelona-Olympiaco 84-74 (Mini Final)
07/10/22: Barcelona-Olympic 70-80 (Regular Season)
07/03/23: Olympiacos-Barcelona 77-70 (Regular Season)
13/10/23: Olympiacos-Barcelona 68-77 (Regular Season)
10/01/24: Barcelona-Olympic 86-78 (Regular Season)
04/24/24: Barcelona-Olympiacos 75-77 (Playoffs)
04/26/24: Barcelona-Olympiacos 77-69 (Playoffs)
04/30/24: Olympiacos-Barcelona 80-82 (Playoffs)
Source: Sport Fm
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