Unot a single day That’s what’s left for the end of the Most exciting regular league in the history of the Euroleague. And although some teams are already out of options to get into the Playoffsprecisely the composition of the quarterfinals is what keeps the classification red hot.
After the defeat of Barcelona in Milan, Olympiakos y Real Madrid they share leadership. The Greeks are first because they won both games against the whites, so their accounts are clear, they will continue like this if they are able to win against Baskonia next Thursday in Piraeus. They have won the tiebreaker with Chus Mateo’s team.
For what Madrid is leaderOlympiacos must lose and the whites settle their clash, also on Thursday, against Maccabi en Tel Aviv. Precisely the Israeli team is emerging as a more than possible rival of the whites in the Playoffs, now it would be. On Thursday, perhaps, we will have a dress rehearsal for that tie.
The prize of being first is that, once the drink of the Playoffs is over, the rival in the Final Four is the one that comes out of the tie between the fourth and fifth placesthat is to say, that the Greeks, if they are first, would avoid Madrid and Barcelona in a hypothetical semifinal.
This is the Euroleague classification
He Barçaafter falling in Milan, it is already third. He cannot look up because he has lost the tiebreakers with Olympiacos and Madrid, and neither downwards, because they win it over Monaco. Those of the Principality missed the defeat of the Barça losing in turn at home to Partizan.
Precisely Serbs, Maccabi and Fenerbahce compete for the fifth, sixth and seventh places with the Baskonia lurking
He vitoriano team sees a position in the Top 8 that has occupied the 33 days of the regular League in jeopardy. visit to Olympiakos and he needs to win or that, failing that, he does not Zalgiri visiting the eliminated Bayern Munich.
