Second meeting of Olympiacos with Real Madrid And with the backdrop of qualifying for this year’s Euroleague Final Four!
Less than 48 hours behind, the “reds” came in perfectly concentrated from the first minutes of Game 1, fully imposed their pace, had a steadily very good defensive face and double-digit differences, eventually managing to prevail 84-72 and make it 1-0!
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With uplifting psychology after this imposing victory, but also aware that Real will return more powerful to avoid the most likely condemning for her 2-0, George Bardzokas’ team is called upon to re-confirm the superiority it has proven during its regular time.
With the top offensive again Vezenkov (23p, 5/7 two -pointers, three -pointers, 7 rebounds and 3 steals), Milutinov’s pivotal (11p, 8 rebounds), and with Wokapap, Vildosa returning after long -term absences and Real’s resistance and take a huge qualifying step before traveling to Madrid next week, where he will finish the job if he has made it 2-0.
In racing, the George Bardzokas He has long been the luxury of choosing his dozen with all his players available. In Game 1 he chose to leave out of them Queen and Dorseywhile one of them is not excluded to be activated if the “red -white” coach chooses to leave out of his guards. Evans and Mitrou-Long are expected to stay again.
“I’m waiting for Real much better. So the other is talent. It can shoot better. He will play with selfishness, perhaps with less ” must ”. The enemy is complacency, spiritual rest. This is what you pay in the 2nd match, as it was in previous years at Olympiacos.
Our approach is the same. The opponent is very strong. After the good half of the first thing we made defensively – because we were not just as good – and we made a difference of 10-15 points, we lost the next two minutes. This is reasonable because Real would be loud. It is a very difficult game that is coming and I am not saying it to draw attention to players and world. If we get it it will be important and we have to play with the same motivation we had in the first match. “among other things, the coach of Olympiacos.
On the other hand, the Real Madrid She will try to overcome the many difficulties she faced in the first game, learn from her mistakes and appears more competitive in her attempt not to be back on the wall and with huge pressure on her back, at 2-0. In the first match he never managed to substantially claim the victory, staying alive to the end thanks to some big three -pointers. However, tonight is expected to appear more read and has players who can determine the course of a match in their day, with Olympiacos being called upon to find the answers in turn.
In racing, the Mateowho was eliminated with two technical penalties in the first minutes of the second match of the first match in the SEF, having strong complaints from the arbitration, does not face any injury problem, as Fernando has also shown that he was able to get minutes.
Yesterday was Olympiacos’ third victory at his equal number of meetings with Real, with all of them having come with two -digit differences!
Referees of tonight’s match will be the Radovic (Croatian), Lizard (Latvia) and Nikolic (Serbia).
Source: Sport Fm
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