Olympiacos starts the first “devil’s week” of this year’s Euroleague with a home match!
The “red and white” face tonight (21:15, Novasports 4, News Bulletin 247, sport-fm.gr) Armani Milan at CHEF for the 3rd matchday of the competition, wanting to celebrate their second consecutive victory and enter the double week with the right hand and get psychological before traveling to Istanbul to face the Effects (18/10, 20:30).
Last week, Olympiacos made the easy difficult and got quite stressed, before finally managing to prevail 74-68 against Zalgiriscelebrating their first European win of the season, following the away defeat in the premier league to Fenerbahçe.
Last Sunday (13/10), Giorgos Bartzokas’ team appeared fully focused in their home match against Marssetting high performance standards, playing beautiful basketball and eventually taking a comfortable 102-72 victory for 2/2 in the start of this year’s Stoiximan GBL.
As far as the competitions are concerned, the coach of Piraeus saw him Milutinov to participate normally in training on Monday (14/10), but we will hardly see him play tonight, having just returned from his long-term absence. More likely to see him get playing time against Efes. Available for tonight’s match will also not be so o Williams-Gosswho is expected to be protected in order to fully overcome the discomforts that plague him, as well as the long-term injured Evans. On the other hand, Mr Fal has returned to normal rhythms, while he is expected to compete as well Petrusev.
“There is no special time to prepare. The goal is more to stay true to our principles and improve our game every day. We don’t like back-to-back games but this is the regime and this is the data we have. As coaches we have to think about which team we have in front of us. Milan is a team with a very good coach and a lot of talent. A team with operators who are very aggressive in the basket and with two forwards like LeDay and Mirotic who can score easily and usually finish the matches with these formations, that is, playing together without a center. This creates a peculiar situation for how to defend yourself. We expect a tough game”said ahead of the match George Bartzokaswith Kostas Papanikolaou to add:
“It’s still early in the year, how ready we can be from game to game with just a day in between is a mental question. I want to believe we are ready. With training today we will show some things, we saw some others in the video. There’s mood, there’s appetite, there’s focus from all the guys it seems but it’s still a third game in six days which is very difficult. Armani is a new team, like the roster, but with a lot of quality, a lot of fighting, a team that you have to pay a lot of attention to.”
As for her Armani Milanlast week celebrated its first victory in this year’s Euroleague, winning 79-74 against Paris at home, while for the 1st matchday it was defeated 93-80 by Monaco at “Gaston Medecin”. Two days ago he arrived… a breath of fresh air in the Italian league, finally managing to get a narrow 88-85 victory over Brescia.
“We are facing one of the favorites to reach the end of the road, Olympiakos who is always well organized under the instructions of coach Bartzokas. A team with depth, facing some injury problems, like all Euroleague clubs”said the coach of the Italian team, Ettore Messinawho will again have at his disposal Bolmaro and Slackerwhile he cannot count on the services of the injured Nimbo.
The referees of tonight’s match will be Miguel Angel Perez (Spain), Jakub Zamoiski (Poland) and Steve Bittner (Germany), while regarding last year’s meetings between the two teams, Olympiacos won 79-74 in the SEF, but was defeated by 65 -53 in Milan.
Source: Sport Fm
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