The EuroLeague standings: With 50%, Olympiacos Piraeus is ahead, having clearly overtaken France

Olympiacos improved to 8-8 in the EuroLeague on Friday evening (December 22) after an away win against Villerban at the LDLC Arena. Piraeus became the eighth team to overtake Lyon in as many games. They have done the obvious for their level and now they look ahead to the next game, which will also be away, at Alba Berlin.

Barcelona with Laprovitola, Kalinic and Veseli celebrated a difficult double victory in Kaunas and beat Virtus Bologna 11-5. Fenerbahce, with 15 points from Papagianni and 13 assists from Kalathis, overtook Berlin with a score of 9-7, keeping them on track for sixth place and direct qualification for the tournament’s playoffs.

Results and schedule 16th matchday

• Maccabi Tel Aviv – Red Star 92-98
• Valencia – Virtus Bologna 79-71
• Real Madrid – Partizan 91-75
• Anatolou Efes – Baskonia 80-87
• Zalgiris Kaunas – Barcelona 80-85
• Villerban – Olympiacos 73-85
• Alba Berlin – Fenerbahce 81-92
• Bayern Munich – Monaco 80-91
• Armani Milano – Panathinaikos 68-76

The program for the 17th matchday

• Anatolou Efes – Fenerbahce 28/12 at 7:30 p.m
• Partizan – Virtus Bologna 28/12 at 7:30 p.m
• Zalgiris Kaunas – Maccabi Tel Aviv 28/12 at 8:00 p.m
• Villeurbanne – Real Madrid 28/12 at 9:00 p.m
• Panathinaikos – Red Star 28/12 at 21:15
• Armani Milano – Baskonia 28/12 at 21:30
• Bayern Munich – Valencia December 28th at 9:30 p.m
• Alba Berlin – Olympiakos Piraeus December 29th at 9:00 p.m
• Monaco – Barcelona December 29th at 10:00 p.m