2023-05-02 05:08:11
The journey into the Stark Arena and its more than 18,000 white-hot spectators is usually daunting. It looks worrying for the merengue club, five days after the general fight between players in Spain and the second setback for Madrid, outgoing finalists but one defeat from the exit.
Especially since they will not be able to count on their French international Guerschon Yabusele, suspended for five matches after his tackle-chokehold executed on the Australian from Partizan Dante Exum who left the floor on one foot and before being filmed on crutches in hand in Belgrade.
On the Serbian side, after coach Zeljko Obradovic assuring that he was going to “work to calm everyone”, the director of the Stark Arena Goran Grbovic also called for tranquility.
“If there is an incident, an object flies and unfortunately someone is injured as a result, all the stands will be emptied in 45 minutes, and the fourth game will be played without an audience. Support Partizan, your club,” the former club player urged in an interview with Serbian media Mozzart Sport.
It remains to be seen whether the sanctions imposed by the Euroleague will have eased tensions.
As a reminder, the previous meeting, finally returned to Partizan (95-80) on Thursday, was cut off from its last minute forty, after the exclusion of 21 players according to the official Euroleague site.
In addition to Yabusele, only the Argentinian Gabriel Deck received a suspension (one game) from Real. Spanish veteran Sergio Llull, who started hostilities with a tie on American leader Kevin Punter, for example avoided any sanction.
While the latter collected a penalty of two matches and his French teammate Mathias Lessort, of one match. Dante Exum, on the other hand, participated well in the training before the match on Monday.
In the other quarter-finals, Barcelona can conclude their series in Kaunas on Wednesday (7:00 p.m.), after their two successes against the Lithuanian club in Catalonia (2-0) to win their ticket to the Final Four, precisely in Kaunas (19-21 may).
While Olympiakos must win in Istanbul to recover the home advantage against Fenerbahçe (1-1). Like Monaco on the floor of Maccabi Tel-Aviv (1-1).
The program of matches 3 of the quarter-finals of the Euroleague of basketball:
Tuesday, May 2 (in Paris time, GMT+2)
Maccabi Tel Aviv (ISR) – Monaco (FRA)
(20h30) Partizan Belgrade (SRB) – Real Madrid (ESP)
Wednesday May 3 (in Paris time, GMT+2)
(19h00) Kaunas (LTU) – Barcelona (ESP)
(19h45) Fenerbahce (TUR) – Olympiakos (GRE)
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