FC Barcelona will face As Monaco in the quarterfinals of the Euroleague, with the Monegascos court factor, while Real Madrid will seek to reach that round must play the ‘play-in’ always with a field factor in favor, first against the Paris Basketball or, if it loses, before the winner of the Bayern Munich vs. Red Star.
On April 15, starting at 9:00 p.m. at the Movistar Arena in the capital of Spain, the meringues will play that cross with Paris. The combination of results in the 34th and last day placed Real Madrid, with a registration of 20-14, in the seventh place of the regular season; And just below the Paris (19-15) ended.
Being Madrid and Parisians the serial heads of the ‘play-in’, who wins his confrontation will pass to the quarterfinals and will be cited with the Fenerbahçe Beko, which finished second the regular phase with a balance of 23-11. If the pupils of Chus Mateo fell to Paris, they would have a second chance on April 18 against Bayern or Red Star.
The hypothetical first duel against Fenerbahçe, at the best of five games, would be April 22 at 8:45 p.m. in Istanbul because the ‘Fener’ has a field advantage. If the Madrid players achieved their ticket with the ‘play-in’ playback, on the other side of the box they would play on April 23 at 9.30 pm before the powerful Olympiacos.
Not surprisingly, those of the Pireo ended the regular season with its 24-10 mark, ahead of the aforementioned Fenerbahçe and also of a Panathinaikos Aktor who was third thanks to his balance of 22-12; In his quarterfinal qualifier, the current champion of this tournament will have a court factor in his favor against Anadolu Epes (6th, 20-14).
Precisely the cabals with the EFES remained this Friday in the stands of the Palau Blaugrana to the agonized outcome. Barça won by a short 91-87 to the Virtus Segafredo in Bologna, staying the culés with the long-awaited fifth position of the table, according to its final balance of 20-14 after a couple of months of arreones.
In this way, the pupils of Joan Peñarroya will release at 7:00 p.m. on April 23 with those of the Principality (4th, 21-13). Therefore, it will be away from home; The Euroleague organization has reported only the first two duels in each round of quarterfinals, so the third will be scheduled in Barca fief later.