Real Madrid-Panathinaikos: a showdown at the Movistar Arena
Pedro Martínez's team seeks their 12th consecutive victory against the EuroLeague leader (8:45 pm; Movistar Plus+).
Real Madrid will test their streak of 11 consecutive wins today against Panathinaikos in the tenth round of the EuroLeague. Our team has the opportunity to catch up in the standings with the Greek side, who are leading with one more victory, in an unbeaten Movistar Arena so far, which must rise to the occasion of great European nights.
Pedro Martínez's squad needs to show their best team performance to compensate for the significant absences of Maledon, our most valuable player in the competition, Jantunen, and Campazzo. The Palacio factor will have to be key: seven out of seven victories so far this season (3 in EuroLeague and 4 in the League). Meanwhile, Panathinaikos has won one of their two away games, with their last outing being a 15-point loss against Anadolu Efes last week. Additionally, they lost to Aris Thessaloniki in the Greek League this past weekend.
We are just one victory behind the Greeks, whom we could match (or even surpass depending on the general basket average) in the standings. The madridista attack, the second-best in the EuroLeague (96.2 points), will face the best defense (75). They already passed the test against Fenerbahce with flying colors, scoring 95 points, almost 20 more than their average allowed. Our team is the most highly rated (110.8), but on the other side is also a roster full of stars (Francisco, Yabusele, Lessort, Hernangómez, Hayes-Davis, etc.), led by Obradovic, with Nunn and Sloukas returning from injury.
An undefeated month
Today marks one month since the start of Real Madrid's spectacular streak of 11 consecutive wins. On October 4, they defeated Obradoiro in Santiago de Compostela and since then have beaten Partizan, Manresa, Olimpia Milan, Asvel, Bilbao Basket, Maccabi, Lleida, Baskonia, Fenerbahce, and Burgos. In the last two games, they set their best defensive records in the EuroLeague (76 against the Turks) and in the League (79 against Burgos). Madrid leads the head-to-head record with a 32-25 balance. Tonight, they aim for a prestigious victory in Europe.
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