He Real Madrid says goodbye to Euroleague after the defeat at the Movistar Arena this Thursday before Olympiacos (84-86), which thus puts 3-1 in the tie and goes to the ‘Final Four’. The White team, champion in 2023 and runner -up in 2024 winning both times to the same rival, the final is lost to four for the first time since 2021.
A third quarter, a lousy start of the fourth and last one, together with an insufficient reaction in the final stretch ended with the hopes of the white fans, which did not stop encouraging his team, however. Alberto Abaldeone of the best of the premises, had a triple in his hands to win. Translated in proper names, the French address Evan Fournier For Hellenes, added to the triples of the veteran Kostas papanicolauthey canceled Madrid.
Nothing to object to the final reaction, which could be even better not to have made some mistakes, but the previous 15 minutes were a slab too heavy for Madrid, which instead had a great start of the game with an inspired Abbey. More interior presence was missing, perhaps for now that was loaded Edy Tavares of personal The Caboverdiano ended up eliminated by five personnel in a controversial decision of the referees in the last quarter.
Before reaching that outcome, a very plugged in Madrid was seen and without losing the face of the game even though Fournier He took the baton from the first minute to direct the orchestra. The first quarter ended with Abbey and the French base as the best valued, but with Mario Hezonja The maximum scorer. The Bosnium stayed at a point in the Gallic at the end as the best game of the game (21 to 22), although they tied in the performance graph at the end (18).
-As if an ace had been saved in the sleeve, the Greek coach Georgios Bartzokas God to Sasha Bezenkov minutes in the resumption and this responded with seven vital points for the takeoff of the Olympiacos In the third quarter. After a first part in favor of Madrid (21-16) and a second matched (26-26), the dreaded blackout of the third in the Movistar Arena arrived.
Pap sneaks bleed from Madrid to triples
The tier promised them very happy before the break, celebrating that even the canterano Hugo González He asked for prominence and dared with a triple. But those who arrived were at the beginning of the last quarter, those of the veteran Kostas papanicolau. Three of Captain Heleno and one of Lucas Vildoza They lifted the Olympiacos at 15 advantage.
The pressure at any order ordered by Chus Matthew and the veteran of Llull and Campazzo They contributed with a 11-0 to reduce the advantage. But the Balearic had in his hands a tray after theft, which however failed with everything in favor. To top it off, Binders Another triple was taken out of the sleeve from ten meters yet to start. By then Tavares had already left.
Madrid did not give up and began a new reaction, which came to put the whites two points away with only 12 seconds to play. Abbey He had in his hands the triple that would have forced the fifth game to repeat the deed of last season against Belgrade Partizan, but the hoop prevented him.
