Barcelona-Panathinaikos: Difficult exit to continue his streak

Start of the “devil’s week” with a difficult mission for Panathinaikos. The “greens” are hosted by Barcelona at “Palau Blaugrana” for its 21st matchday Euroleague (21:30, NovaSports Prime, sport-fm.gr, bwinSPOR FM 94.6), wanting to continue their streak.

Ergin Ataman’s team has five consecutive wins in the tournament against Armani, Baskonia, Bayern, Virtus and Partizan. In these five games he has scored three costars and once 96 pointsshowing how it “rolls” for good. Somehow, Mr Panathinaikos he reached 13-7 and second place, aspiring to climb even further.

Now, the “seven-star” wants to confirm it excellent condition in which it is located, in the most demanding mission of the last interval. Although Barcelona have not impressed so far, the Palau Blaugrana is always an inhospitable ground for the ‘clover’, who will be called upon to pull off a great ‘double’ which could cement them even further in the high places of the standings.

The Catalans, for their part, are so far quite volatile. His team Juan Peñaroya is on the edge of the top ten with a record of 11-9, having some very good but also quite bad periods. What is certain is that Barcelona comes from two very big “doubles” on French soil, after defeating in consecutive matches Paris and the Monaco away from home.

This good streak wishes to continue against the Panathinaikoswanting to exploit, among other things, its headquarters. Of course, the “Palau Blaugrana” is not… an impregnable fortress like it used to be, since the Catalans count there 5 wins and 4 lossesso they give rights to the hosting teams. Especially if we talk about the “clover”, which has won the half away match of this year (5/10).

As far as the competition is concerned, for Barcelona he is doubtful Alex Abrineswho was injured in the league match against Gran Canaria. It’s out for the whole season Nikos Laprovitolawhile he returned Jan Vesely. On the part of Panathinaikos, normally in the mission are the Lorenzo Brown and Omer Yurtsevenafter their absence against Lavrio. Except remain the Matias Lessor, Marius Grigonis.

The game was appointed to be conducted by Emin Mogulkots (Turkey), Jakub Zamoiski (Poland) and Saulius Racis (Lithuania).

Prehistory

THE Panathinaikos and the Barcelona will face each other today for 54th time in their history, with the “Blaugrana” counting 36 victories against the “trefoil’s” 17. In fact, the “greens” have not won at the home of the Catalans since the 2013 playoffs, with his three-pointer Dimitris Diamantidis in front of Nate Jagway.

This is, of course, a historical couple with many characteristic moments. His first victory Panathinaikou with a score of 67-66 in the 1996 final, which gave the team its first “star”. At the same time, the two clubs have met twice for the playoffs, specifically in the 2010-2011 and 2012-2013 seasons. In the first case, Panathinaikos qualified (with 3-1 wins) and later won the Euroleague in Barcelona. On the contrary in the second case, the ones who smiled were the Spaniards.

In the first round match, Panathinaikos won hard 90-89.

Detailed results between them:

1981/82 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 113-83

1981/82 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 79-89

21/04/1994 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 100-83 (Mini final)

02/11/1995 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 63-57 (First Phase)

10/01/1996 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 74-95 (First Phase)

11/04/1996 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 67-66 (Final)

25/09/1996 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 77-58 (First Round)

11/13/1996 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 79-75 (First Round)

18/03/2004 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 66-84 (Top 16)

01/04/2004 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 64-67 (Top 16)

21/02/2007 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 102-82 (Top 16)

21/03/2007 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 87-66 (Top 16)

11/15/2007 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 76-66 (Regular Season)

10/01/2008 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 55-56 (Regular Season)

30/10/2008 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 90-66 (Regular Season)

11/12/2008 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 76-87 (Regular Season)

11/02/2010 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 83-71 (Top 16)

25/02/2010 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 67-70 (Top 16)

22/03/2011 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 83-82 (Play Offs)

24/03/2011 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 71-75 (Play Offs)

29/03/2011 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 76-74 (Play Offs)

31/03/2011 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 78-67 (Play Offs)

05/13/2012 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 69-74 (Short final)

09/04/2013 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 72-70 (Play Offs)

11/04/2013 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 65-66 (Play Offs)

16/04/2013 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 65-63 (Play Offs)

18/04/2013 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 60-70 (Play Offs)

25/04/2013 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 64-53 (Play Offs)

31/01/2014 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 56-63 (Top 16)

28/03/2014 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 84-62 (Top 16)

14/11/2014 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 78-69 (Regular Season)

19/12/2014 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 67-80 (Regular Season)

09/01/2014 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 80-76 (Top 16)

05/03/2015 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 77-81 (Top 16)

29/10/2015 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 77-52 (Regular Season)

04/12/2015 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 93-86 (Regular Season)

02/12/2016 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 72-57 (Regular Season)

24/01/2017 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 71-65 (Regular Season)

13/10/2017 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 98-71 (Regular Season)

11/01/2018 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 84-75 (Regular Season)

21/11/2018 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 76-70 (Regular Season)

11/01/2019 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 79-68 (Regular Season)

13/12/2019 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 98-86 (Regular Season)

21/02/2020 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 81-92 (Regular Season)

15/10/2020 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 97-89 (Regular Season)

02/03/2021 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 77-85 (Regular Season)

16/12/2021 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 82-85 (Regular Season)

03/02/2022 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 86-60 (Regular Season)

16/12/2022 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 74-68 (Regular Season)

23/03/2023 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 74-88 (Regular Season)

03/11/2023 Barcelona-Panathinaikos 80-72 (Regular Season)

22/03/2024 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 89-81 (Regular Season)

03/12/2024 Panathinaikos-Barcelona 90-89 (Regular Season)