Greeks Skged in the Desert: Fener and Monaco in the Euroleague finals
Basketball players Fenerbahcea and Monaco He will fight at the Sunday Final Four Final Four in Abu Dhabi for the Euroleague champion title after defeating Greek representatives and multiple European champions in tonight’s semi -final duels, Panathinaikos and Olympiakos.
In the first semifinal, Fenerbahce defeated last year’s champion, Athens Panathinaikos, 82-76, and in the second semi-final match Monaco was better than Piraea Olympiakos with 78-68.
For Fenerbahce, it will be the fourth finals, and first after 2018, in which he will try to reach the second title, while Monaco will fight for the Euroleague trophy for the first time and try to become only the second club from the French Basketball League with the title of the European Champion, after making only Limoges 1993.
The duel of Monaco and Olympiakosa was even equal to the middle of the third quarter, and then the Vasilis spanoulis team went to 13 points (55-42). The Olympiakos 9-0 came to -5 (55-51), but at the third to the third to the last quarter, Monaco reciprocated 9-0 for 64-51 and sealed the victory, as the Greek team no longer managed to approach less than seven points behind.
Monaco was led by Alpha Diallo with 22 points and six rebounds and Mike James, who had seven jumps and assists each. Olympiakos did not help 31 Evan Fournier bins, because the double-digit effect had only Nigel Williams-Goss with 12 points.
Vasilis spanoulis, who, as a player, led Olympiakos to the Euroleague title twice, can now also become the legend of Monaco in the role of coaches, if he manages to bring the title of Europe’s basketball champion to the Azure Coast. The final duel of Fenerbahce and Monaco is scheduled for Sunday, starting at 8 pm in Central European time.
