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Karditsa-Olympiakos: With Milutinov in Thessaly for a quiet and unexpected game the “red and whites”

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The curtain falls tonight on its 3rd matchday Stoiximan GBL with a total of two matches.

Apart from the big game of Panathinaikos AKTOR with AEK Betsson BC at OAKA, earlier, at 17:15, the Carditsa welcomes him Olympic on “Yiannis Bourousis” (sport-fm.gr, ERT3).

The “red and white” come from a difficult and demanding week in the Euroleaguewhere they completed the first doubleheader of the season with one win and one loss. On Tuesday, they comfortably beat Armani Milano 89-68 in SEF, in by far their best performance of the year, while, three days later, the defense and some accumulated mistakes in the final “deprived” them of the pink card in Istanbul against Anadolu. Ephesus (91-89).

Having a few days of rest and limited time, the Piraeus traveled to Karditsa for the match against the local team, with the aim of course of a good performance and a comfortable victory. In the league they have done “2 out of 2” against Lavrio (75-93) and Ari (102-72), wanting to get out of the way tonight easily and without surprises, as the away match against Bayern in Munich (25/10) follows , 21:45) for the 5th matchday of the Euroleague.

In the competition, Giorgos Bartzokas decided to remove from the group of foreigners for the Greek championship the negative in the last matches Philip Petrushev and to replace him with the Nikola Milutinov, who has returned to training. This is one of the two changes that Olympiacos has the right to make in the first round (first 11 matches) of the Stoiximan GBL. The Serb returns to the “red and white” team for the first time after his injury. However, he was ruled out for tonight’s match Evan Fournier due to problems in the gluteal muscle, with the medical team protecting the Frenchman in view of continuation.

On the other hand, Karditsa now counts two defeats in the same number of first matches of the championship, having faced two strong teams. The reason for Panathinaikos (66-80) and AEK (96-65), with the Thessalonians completing this demanding trio of games against the “red and whites”.

Tomorrow will be the fifth game between the two teams in the Stoiximan GBL. Olympiacos counts four victories with differences of 12 to 31 points.

Source: Sport Fm

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