After the violent defeat in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the pressure for the Munich team has increased in the Euroleague.
After the violent defeat in Vitoria -Gasteiz, the second in a row, FC Bayern will go to Spain again – and the pressure in the Euroleague has increased properly before the duel with FC Barcelona. If the German basketball champion should go into the play-offs as hoped, in the last four main round games are urgently needed.
Barca is a fifth in the table with a 17:13 record, just like the eighth from Munich. But in Anadolu Istanbul, Real Madrid and Armani Milan, three teams lurk closely behind (all 16:14), so it will be exciting again in the coming days and weeks. Six teams move in directly to the quarter-finals, the four next best (7-10) come to play-in, for the rest the season is over.
“Barcelona is again a large, physical team that pushes the most ball losses in the Euroleague at the opponent,” said coach Gordon Herbert before departure to the away game on Tuesday evening: “So we have to take care of the ball very well and must not allow any slight points.”
It doesn’t really become easier after the game in Catalonia. Already on Thursday (both 8.30 p.m./Magenta sport) it goes home against Partizan Belgrade (15:15), also a pursuer, after which Maccabi Tel Aviv (10:20) and Fenerbahce Istanbul (20:10) are waiting.
Before the pioneering duel, the shape speaks for Barcelona, which has won its past three games in the Euroleague. The Spaniards are “obvious in a very good moment,” said Herbert. Courage should give the Bundesliga club the first leg. In mid -November, Bayern won 100: 78 in the SAP Garden.