Olympiacos managed to “escape” from Milan and the headquarters of Armani with a marginal, but also very important victory, improving its record to 12-6!
After the end of the match and during the press conference, the coach of the Italian team, Ettore Messina, he openly expressed the strong complaints he had from the referees of the match, stressing that they treated his team and Nikola Mirotic as if they were debutants in the competition.
What the Armani coach said in detail:
“Congratulations to Olympiakos, we played a close game. Everyone is now thinking about the last possession. We probably could have done a lot of little things better, to maybe win the game earlier. We competed and we accept the result.
This is my 6th year in the event and you will have noticed that I never talk about refereeing. Last year in the match against Bayern, coach Herbert asked for a challenge for one phase. Mirotic, who is one of the best characters in the Euroleague, went to the referee and told him not to waste his challenge because the ball was indeed theirs. Mirotic is such a character.
Today the referees treated him like he’s a EuroLeague rookie, until at some point he lost his mind. Today they treated us like a rookie team. I won’t say anything else. Euroleague has no right to take money from me. I’d rather give them to charity”.
Source: Sport Fm
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