Real Madrid – Barcelona. Prediction and announcement regarding the Euroleague match

The match between Real Madrid and Barcelona will take place in Madrid on Thursday, October 26. The match will start at 21.45 Kyiv time. The match will be broadcast live on Setanta Sports Ukraine TV channel.

A real gift awaits all fans of the orange ball in the fifth round of the main European basketball cup. The next series of El Clasico will take place in Madrid, which is very hot and important not only in football but also in basketball. The matches between Real Madrid and Barcelona are always interesting, no matter where they are in the rankings. But today not only ardent rivals are facing each other, but also the teams that occupy the first two places in the Euroleague rankings, as well as one of the main contenders for the final victory in the competition of the best basketball clubs of the Old World.

Both teams are showing good results at the beginning of the season. Real Madrid is particularly impressive. The last Euroleague champion is undefeated in the new season and currently has a 13-0 winning streak. Of these damn dozens of victories, two came in the Spanish Super Cup, six in the home championship, the Madrid club won the Euroleague four times, and the “cream” won one more victory in an unofficial but very high-status match against the NBA. representative “Dallas Mavericks”.

Results of Real Madrid’s matches in the 2023/2024 Euroleague:

6 October. “Basconia” (Spain) – “Truth” (Spain) – 77:79

12 October. “Anadolu Efes” (Turkey) – “Truth” (Spain) – 80:103

17 October. “Truth” (Spain) – “Zalgiris” (Lithuania) – 93:79

19 October. “Truth” (Spain) – “Milan” (Italy) – 88:71

Barcelona’s situation is also good, but slightly worse compared to Real Madrid. Roger Grimau’s team played eleven matches and won nine (five in the Spanish Championship and four in the Euroleague). Moreover, some of these victories were quite tense. For example, the Catalans broke the resistance of Palencia, which had just joined the ASB League, only in extra time and had serious trouble against Andorra, which had no stars in the sky. Barça, on the other hand, suffered two decisive defeats in the matches it played against Real.

Results of Barcelona’s matches in Euroleague 2023/2024:

5 October. “Barcelona” (Spain) – “Anadolu Efes” (Türkiye) – 91:74

13 October. “Olympiacos” (Greece) – “Barcelona” (Spain) – 68:77

17 October. “Partizan” (Serbia) – “Barcelona” (Spain) – 83:92

20 October. Barcelona (Spain) – Bayern (Germany) – 98:59

The upcoming match will be the third match between the rivals in the past month. The teams first opened the new season (September 16) simultaneously in the semi-final of the Spanish Super Cup in neutral territory in Murcia, and this match ended with Real winning 90:80. Then the teams met in Madrid in the third round of the Spanish championship (October 1) and Chus Mateo’s team won again with 86:79.

And now the third meeting between principled rivals is approaching. The squads of both teams are full of star players and motivation will be very high in this match. “Barça” should especially “gnaw the hardwood”, because fans of the blue garnet may not understand the third consecutive defeat of the main rival in such a short time. However, the Madrid team does not need any additional preparations for the upcoming meeting. An additional motivation will be that the winner will lead the rankings alone, because after four weeks played, the only teams in the Euroleague that have not yet experienced the pain of defeat are Real and Barcelona.

Sport.ua prediction: Real Madrid’s victory

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