• 83-80 in the Palau. Narration and statistics
  • Classification. 28th day

Barça seems to have paid to suffer in their last two matches in the Euroleague. As it happened in Berlin, he found a rival capable of putting a face on him and putting things tremendously uphill. And even more than that. Bayern Munich, in a disastrous third quarter of the premises, managed to leave 17 points above, but those of Svetislav Pesic, hand in hand with a Nikola Mirotic (28 points, 37 valuation) always essential, managed to meet again his best arguments in the last period (83-80).

Barça, again, measured a terribly intense rival. And that was, in large part, what allowed Bayern to reach only one point below the break (42-41). Despite some initial hesitation, Mirotic (11 points in the first 10 minutes) was undoubtedly the best asset of a team that only enjoyed a brilliant alley oop between Malcolm Delaney and Victor Claver.

The intensity allowed to take the first advantages to the team of Oliver Kostic (30-36), with Mathias Lessort initially unleashed and Greg Monroe erected in his best offensive argument. Two consecutive triples, one from Álex Abrines and one from Cory Higgins, however, led the match.

The return of the break was not positive for Barcelona. Absolutely. Barça fell again and again in the precipitation in attack while Bayern, increasingly emboldened, managed to punish the offensive inoperance until 48-65, again with Monroe as the most outstanding player.

Lost by vertigo

The defense, to the despair of Pesic, was also continually developed and only from the free throw could the locals minimize the damage at the end of the third period (57-68).

Kyle Kuric, just starting the last quarter, would score a triple that would give hope to the Palau. Aguadas, immediately afterwards, by a arrear of Bayern that would return 13 above (60-73). But, when despair was more widespread, the figure of a Mirotic emerged again capable of compensating, on the basis of triples and its near infallibility in free throws, the stabs that came from the hand of a Maodo Lo, to whom he shook. Pulse at the most inopportune moment.

Barça, in recent competing moments, uncovered its best defensive arguments against an opponent who, perhaps, could have vertigo. Kuric and Higgins sealed a tremendously worked victory almost at the last breath (83-80), no matter how much a three-time final of Vladimir Lucic timidly threatened to force the extension.

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