The competition program of the 9th matchday continues tonight with two strong and interesting matches Stoiximan GBLhere where the two “eternal” return to their duties… in Greece after a difficult and demanding “devil’s week” in the Euroleague.
The beginning is made by Olympicwhich at 17:15 (sport-fm.gr, ERT3) is hosted at Klisto in Kallithea by Colossus of Rhodes. The “red and white” come from the home defeat with score 96-90 from Paris, thereby missing a great opportunity to top the table of Europe’s top club competition.
At the league level, his team Giorgos Bartzokas fortunately, it has four straight wins and seven overall in the season, which is in second place in the standings, behind only the undefeated Panathinaikos AKTOR. Last week, Piraeus won very difficult with a score 84-78 of Peristeri in SEF, thanks mainly to the great performance of Giannoulis Larentzakis and Tomas Walkap in the last part of the match.
In the competition, Olympiacos will not have him available tonight Mustafa Fal who is being protected after a minor injury he suffered in the match with Peristeri. From there on, outside is the Shaquille McKissick which has not been declared in the league, as of course the Moses Wright and Keenan Evans.
On the other hand, the Rhodesians are in a very bad competitive situation, as they are “sunk” in the last place of the standings table with only one win after the end of the first eight matches. In fact, if we include the BCL games, the team from the “Island of Knights” count eleven defeats in their twelve official games this year! Kolossos needed a strong “electric shock”, that’s why the management of the club proceeded a few days ago to removal of Giorgos Sigalas from the technical leadership with Maki Yatra to take on the difficult mission and make his debut tonight against the “red and whites”.
In the other game of the day, Panionios will welcome to the DAK Glyfadas Panathinaikos AKTOR (20:15, sport-fm.gr, ERT3). The Historian comes from the narrow away defeat with score 75-71 from AEK in overtime, dropping to 4-4 and 9th place. At home, however, his team Ari Lykogiannis she is doing great, having the absolute best of victories against Aris, Marousi, PAOK and Kolossos Rhodes, having kept her opponents below 65 points in all four of these matches!
As for the “greens”, they are coming off their worst performance of the year, as, on Thursday, they were defeated by heavy 91-73 from Partizan in Belgrade. For one more game in the tournament, they presented many gaps in defense, while offensively they were never able to find a rhythm and roll, as a result of which they experienced their third defeat in the last four games in the institution.
Tonight they will be looking for a good and convincing performance, on the one hand to continue the winning streak they are running inside the walls, on the other hand, to somewhat alleviate any pressure and “whining” there is from the negative results and to fix their psychology in view of continuation. At the competitive end, consistently out are the Marius Grigonis and Kostas Antetokounmpo, while, today it will be known which foreigner will be cut from the list of six for the game.
Detailed schedule of the competition:
Saturday 7/12
17.00 Lavrio-Mars 93-84
18.00 Marousi-Karditsa 71-85
20.15 Peristeri-AEK Betsson 89-82
Sunday 8/12
17.15 Kolossos Rhodes-Olympiakos (ERT3)
20.15 Panionios-Panathinaikos (ERT3)
Monday 9/12
20.15 PAOK-Prometheus Patras (ERT3)
Source: Sport Fm
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