Matched series. The Barça is imposed on Real Madrid at the Palau Blaugrana in a very close match finale decided in the last moments (71-69) in a great second half of Mirotic, author of 26 points and 20 in the second half. A match in which the small differences on the scoreboard ended up equaling just before the final travels to Madrid.
uneven start
Barça started the game outclassed by the white team. And it is that Real Madrid has achieved a partial start of 0-6. This initial advantage has been maintained by the white team throughout the first period. A triple by Jokubaitis would make it 13-17 at the end of the first 10 minutes. A result that left Saras’ men close to the white team.
At the start of the second period, Real Madrid would once again be within seven points (15-22, min 14), but a 7-0 run in favor of the Catalans would serve to tie the game after many minutes with the white team ahead. A basket by Calathes put the Catalans ahead (26-24, min 17). Real Madrid continued to hurt the azulgranas in the offensive rebound, with seven rebounds. At the break the result showed equality between the two teams (32-32).
equality to the end
After the restart, the match remained very even. Calathes needed stitches on his left cheekbone after a run-in with former Barça player Adam Hanga while playing for a ball. The white team achieved small advantages, but those of Saras were very serious and managed to face the last period ahead on the scoreboard (56-54).
In the last minutes it was Barça who obtained small advantages on the scoreboard, but they were key to face the end of the match (67-54, min 34). And the match came at the last minute with maximum equality after Real Madrid managed to tie the score again. Barça was more successful at the end of the game to end up winning 71-69 and level the final 1-1.
Match sheet:
Barça, 71
Real Madrid, 69
Barça: Calathes (2), Higgins (10), Hayes-Davis (-), Mirotic (26) and Sanli (-) -initial-, Davies (8), Martínez (-), Smits (3) Laprovittola (8), Kuric (7), Jokubaitis (7).
Real Madrid: Couseur (4), Hanga (10), Deck (7), Tavares (11) and Yabusele (16) -initial five- Núñez (-), Fernández (2), Abalde (4), Poirier (2), Llull ( 7), Taylor (6).
Partials: 13-17 / 19-15 / 24-22 / 15-15
Referees: Emilio Pérez Pizarro, Fernando Calatrava and Luis Miguel Castillo.
