Olympiacos-Real Madrid: For the first and decisive step towards “Queen” Piraeus

In the battle of Postseason is thrown out tonight Olympic! His team George Bardzoka welcomes the Real Madrid At the crowded Peace and Friendship Stadium (21:30, Novasports Prime, Sport-fm.gr, BWINSPOR FM 94.6) in the first game for her playoffs Euroleague!

The ‘reds’ were the ones who cut First the Regular Season threadfinishing at the top of the regular season with a record of 24-10, which resulted in waiting until the last day of play-in to learn an opponent. Opposite them, the Spaniards will be setwho although finished in 7th place (20-14), needed to play against Bayern Munich A match of “Life or Death” After defeat by Paris, to secure the 8th and final Playoffs ticket.

As such, Olympiacos, even though he finished first, has a front of him in front of him very difficult task on the way to Final 4 of Abu Dhabiagainst a team that may not have impressed this year with its appearances, but the experience, the heavy jersey, but also its 11 titles in the institution, make up a bunch of … Titanic.

With “weapon” the crowded Faliro stadium, but also Two sovereign appearances in this year’s Regular Season (79-69 in the SEF and 96-86 in Madrid), Olympiacos will seek tonight to take the first and decisive step for his qualification In a fourth consecutive Final 4, aiming to … shake off the 1st curse and win the 4th title of his story. Recall that the series is judged in three wins, with the “reds” having a home advantage. Game 2, It will be held again in the SEF next Friday (25/04, 21:30).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9uzy7FCD2W

In the racing, Piraeus is pleased to have reimbursements, since, so much Lucas Vildosa, as well as the Nikola Milutinov and Thomas Wokhap They returned to training and are available to George Bardzokas. On the other hand, the questioning remains the involvement of center Bruno Fernando, who is facing an injury problem.

As for this year’s games, Olympiacos made the “2 in 2” on Real Madrid at the Euroleague Regular Season, celebrating the comfortable home win 79-69 in the SEF, in a match where Sasha Vezenkov He measured 23 points and 8 rebounds, while in Spain, the “reds” left with double in their luggage (86-96), thanks to his excellent appearance Fournier (28p).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1xjhqoqceo

The match was set to run by the Sasha Poukl (Slovenia), Carmelo Paterniko (Italy) and Milan Nedovic (Slovenia).

The prehistory:

Olympic and Real Madrid They have created their own Rivalry in the Euroleague, since the 1978/79 season that have been first and foremost. The two groups have confronted a total of 54 times, with the “Merengues” having 29 wins and the “reds” 25. In their prehistory there are four finals, With the “Queen” three wins (1995, 2015, 2023) but the two Spanish territories and Piraeus one (2013), while in Playoffs level have been confronted three times, t1996, 2009 and 2014, with Olympiacos only won the 2009 series.

In detail the games:



1978/79 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 113-72 (Group Phase)

1978/79 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 97-101 (Group Phase)

1992/93 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 92-74 (group phase)

1992/93 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 63-62 (group phase)

1993/94 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 57-58 (group phase)

1993/94 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 75-73 (group phase)

1994/95 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 73-61 (Pelic)

1995/96 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 68-49 (Playoffs)

1995/96 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 80-77 (Playoffs)

1995/96 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 80-65 (Playoffs)

1997/98 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 77-78 (group phase)

1997/98 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 82-75 (group phase)

2000/01 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 75-73 (group phase)

2000/01 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 91-84 (group phase)

2002/03 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 73-66 (group phase)

2002/03 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 71-68 (group phase)

2004/05 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 76-62 (group phase)

2004/05 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 75-83 (group phase)

2007/08 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 80-70 (Top 16)

2007/08 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 72-63 (Top 16)

2008/09 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 88-79 (Playoffs)

2008/09 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 79-73 (Playoffs)

2008/09 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 71-63 (Playoffs)

2008/09 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 75-78 (Playoffs)

2010/11 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 82-66 (Normal Period)

2010/11 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 82-68 (Normal Period)

2012/13 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 100-88 (Telikos)

2013/14 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 88-71 (Playoffs)

2013/14 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 82-77 (Playoffs)

2013/14 Olympiacos-Real 78-76 (Playoffs)

2013/14 Olympiacos-Real 71-62 (Playoffs)

2013/14 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 83-69 (Playoffs)

2014/15 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 59-78 (final)

2015/16 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 84-72 (Top 16)

2015/16 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 99-84 (Top 16)

2016/17 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 83-65 (Normal Period)

2016/17 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 73-79 (Normal Period)

2017/18 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 92-83 (Normal Period)

2017/18 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 79-80 (Normal Period)

2018/19 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 88-83 (Normal Period)

2018/19 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 94-78 (Normal Period)

2019/20 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 93-77 (Normal Period)

2020/21 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 82-86 (normal period)

2020/21 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 72-63 (normal period)

2021/22 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 74-68 (normal period)

2021/22 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 75-67 (normal period)

2022/23 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 87-89 (normal period)

2022/23 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 74-68 (Normal Period)

2022/23 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 78-79 (final)

2023/24 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 71-77 (normal period)

2023/24 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 90-85 (normal period)

2023/24 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 87-76 (semifinal)

2024/25 Olympiacos-Real Madrid 79-69 (Normal Period)

2024/25 Real Madrid-Olympiacos 86-96 (normal period)

Real Madrid’s roster:

06. Alberto Abalde (Spain) -F-2,06m-29X.

07. Fakundo Kambatsu (Argentina) -G-1,78m-33m.

08.

09. Hugo Gonthalez (Spain) -F-1,98m-18x.

11.

13. Janna Muse (Bosnia) -g/F-2,05 A-26X.

14. Gabriel Dek (Argentina) -F-1,98m-29x.

16. Usman Garuba (Spain) -F/C-2,03m-22x.

18.

20. Bruno Fernando (Angola) -C-2,06m-26X.

22.

23. Sergio Yul (Spain) -G-1,90m-38kg.

24. Andres Felis (Democratic Democracy) -G-1,88m-28X.

30. Eli Ediage (Spain) -F/C-2,04m-20x.

Coach: Matteo (Spain)