Slovenian Tsedevita Olympia tonight (20:00, Novasports Prime sport-fm.gr) face Aris in Thessaloniki and Alexandrio, for the 4th matchday of this year’s EuroCup!
In high spirits after last Saturday’s convincing victory (19/9) against Prometheusthe “yellows” prevailed over the Patrinas with 86-75 having as their leaders Noley (21pts, 7 rebounds, 7 assists), De Julius (15pts, 6 assists) and Toliopoulos (13p, 3 assists), while celebrating their first home win in this year’s Stoiximan GBL!
He wants to do the same tonight, i.e. get his first home win for this season and in Europe, after the two unsuccessful attempts against Turk and Hapoel Jerusalem. The defeat by the Israelis was preceded by the “double” against Lietkampelis in Lithuania and thus Aris is in 1-3a record that has given quite a big “must” to tonight’s game.
“We have to continue to improve in the parts of the game that are needed and from there the important thing is to show up as hungry and with a very high motivation to claim the victory. Obviously we have had two defeats at home but they came from two very strong teams, both Turk Telecom and Hapoel Jerusalem. Nevertheless, we believe that we have to show up to tomorrow’s game with great motivation and very hungry, not because of the need to win but because we have to give it 100%.”said ahead of the match Castritiswith Toliopoulos to add: “Cedevita is at 3-1. We at 1-3. We must win this match. We will give everything and hope for a positive result”.
As for her Chedevitais off to a very good start in this year’s EuroCup, with just one defeat (3-1) in the first four matches! He didn’t succeed only at the home of Turkey, while he defeated Cluj (86-93), Venezia (87-82) and Lietkambelis (76-72) in a row. However, in the Adriatic League their performance is not comparable, since they are at 2-3, having also been defeated by Igokea in their most recent game. Tonight they will line up without their Montenegrin coach, Zvezdan Mitrovic, who underwent surgery.
The referees of tonight’s match will be Robert Viklitsky (Czech Republic), Uros Obrknezevic (Serbia) and Denis Hadzic (Croatia).
Source: Sport Fm
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