Basketball
Real left no chance to Bayern, Virtus defeated Baskonia in Spain
On December 14, the fourteenth round of the regular season of Europe’s most prestigious club basketball tournament took place. On the first match day Europa League six matches were played.
The match day started with Serbian Partizan’s victory against local giants Zalgiris in Lithuania. Today’s home victories were recorded by Crvena Zvezda, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Real Madrid, who confidently defeated Bayern. In the match of the top five teams, Baskonia lost to Italian Virtus on its home field.
Europa League. Regular season, round 14. 14 December.
Zalgiris – Partizan – 85:93 (21:29, 23:29, 20:18, 21:17)
Zalgiris: Evans (33), Šmits (18), Hayes (6), Giedraitis (5), Ulanovas (0) – start; Dimsha (11), Lavrinovicius (4 + 8 rebounds), Hollins (3), Birutis (3), Sumner (2).
Partizan: Panther (22), Dozier (16 + 7 rebounds), Leday (13 + 7 rebounds), Caboclo (12 + 7 rebounds), Smailagic (7) – start; Nunnally (14), Vukcevic (4), Koprivica (3), Ponitka (2), Andjusic (0).
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Red Star – Alba – 85:71 (25:22, 26:20, 20:11, 14:18)
Red Star: Nedovic (20), Mitrovic (6), Bolomboy (5), dos Santos (2), Lazic (0) – start; Giedraitis (19), Teodosic (12), Davidovac (10), Napier (9), Toby (2), Simonovic (0).
Alba: Tiemann (12), Whetzell (10), Procida (9), Brown (8), Spagnuolo (0 + 8 assists) – start; Olinde (13), Thomas (6), Delov (5 + 7 rebounds + 9 assists), Bean (4), Schneider (4), Mattissek (0), Nikic (0).
Maccabi Tel Aviv – Anadolu Efes – 95:86 (29:20, 16:28, 21:16, 29:22)
Maccabi Tel Aviv: Brown (21), Colson (19 + 7 rebounds), Nibo (8 + 9 rebounds + 4 blocks), Baldwin (4), J. Cohen (2) – start; Webb (14), Blatt (12 + 6 assists + 6 turnovers), Sorkin (8), Cleveland (5), Rivero (2).
Anadolu Efes: Thompson (22 + 7 assists), Larkin (17 + 6 assists), Jones (12 + 16 rebounds), Ghazi (3), Osmani (2) – start; Dom (20), Oturu (7), Hollatz (3), Tunca (0), Yıldızlı (0).
Baskonia – Virtus – 81:91 (15:24, 28:18, 17:21, 21:28)
Baskonia: Cotsar (13), Miller-McIntyre (10 + 8 rebounds + 13 assists), Marinkovic (9), Sedekerskis (7), Diez (0) – start; Moneke (16 + 8 rebounds), Howard (11), Rongavopoulos (11), Diop (4), Chiozza (0), Rayeste (0).
Virtus: Belinelli (27), Shengelia (16), Cordinier (12 + 8 rebounds), Hackett (6 + 8 rebounds), Keycock (4) – start; Payola (9 + 6 assists), Abass (8), Dunston (6), Dobrich (2), Lundberg (1), Polonara (0).
Real Madrid – Bayern Munich – 88:73 (19:23, 23:14, 21:20, 25:16)
Real Madrid: Campazzo (13), Tavares (8), Koziur (6), Musa (4), Ndiaye (0 + 7 rebounds) – start; Sergio Yul (16), Hezonja (12), Rodriguez (11), Poirier (11 + 9 rebounds), Ara (7), Rudy Fernandez (0).
Bayern: Bonga (15), Booker (14), Edwards (11), Bolmaro (6), Ibaka (6 + 4 blocked shots) – starts; Francisco (11), Wyler-Babb (6), Brankovic (4), Radoncic (0), Giffey (0).
ASVEL Villeurbanne – Panathinaikos – 81:89 (21:24, 15:21, 24:19, 21:25)
ASVEL Villeurbanne: Luwavou-Cabarrot (17), Fall (13), Lauvergne (10), Li (7), Laity (5) – start; Egbunu (9), De Colo (6), Jackson (6), Scott (6), Kayudi (2).
Panathinaikos: Grigonis (19), Sloukas (18 + 6 assists), Mitoglou (16), Grant (1), Balcerovski (0) – start; Lessor (14), Nunn (13), Wildosa (3), Hernangomez (3), K. Antetokounmpo (2), P. Kalaitsakis (0).
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Source: Sport UA
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