• Direct Real Madrid - Olympiacos (9:00 p.m.)

Four contenders for the last two tickets to the Euroleague quarterfinals.

Baskonia's loss to Efes last night (101-111 in extra time) eased the outlook for Real Madrid, which now depends on itself to get into the next round.

Along with the whites, Valencia Basket, Zenit and Baskonia himself yearn for one of those last two places that are beginning to be decided tonight.

The whites are measured at the WiZink Center (9:00 pm) to an Olympiacos without any aspiration, but recent executioners of Valencia Basket, and they could leave their pass settled or be immersed in an unwanted raw final against Turkish Fenerbahce, next Thursday.

The other two Spanish teams could play their options in the decisive duel that will face them in La Fonteta in a week.

The simplest accounts for Real Madrid are, obviously, to win the two remaining duels.

The first, against Olympiacos, without Pablo Laso (suspended) and, probably, without Edy Tavares (injured).

They are the last games, by the way, of the Greeks, who do not play the Hellenic league.

They could also be the last of

Spanoulis

.

The two triumphs would allow him to reach the quarterfinals with seventh places, avoiding Barcelona.

In any case, a tough rival would await (Efes or CSKA Moscow).

With a single victory, the matter becomes tangled and he would have to look askance at what his other rivals are doing.

A victory against Olympiacos and the defeat of Zenit and Valencia Basket would serve as a safe conduct.

However, it could happen that, if the Greeks were not beaten, tonight there would be a quadruple tie with 18 victories (Zenit would have 14 defeats for their pending match) between the four applicants.

In that case, the labyrinth would be pending on a wide array of factors, some of which would happen to be pending on the Spanish duel in Valencia while their lives are at

stake

in

Istanbul

.

No win ticket

The only option for Real Madrid to qualify without winning any more games would be for neither Zenit nor Valencia Basket to win any of the duels that are still pending.

A hypothetical situation that would put Baskonia directly into fourths and would give the whites the last place.

In Valencia and Vitoria they also bite their nails.

Baskonia's future looks like it will depend on their end against the Valencian team, which fell by a single point difference in the match played at the

Fernando Buesa Arena

.

Something similar happens to the orange team, regardless of what they do tonight against ASVEL, although in their case they would have to cross their fingers so that Zenit also puncture along the way.

And that he did it, in addition, against two teams (Maccabi and Panathinaikos) that no longer play anything.

If the oranges win today, it would be enough for them to beat Baskonia by more than two in the last match and for one of the other two rivals (Real Madrid or Zenit) to lose one of their matches.

A good part of the Sudoku puzzle may or may not be solved tonight.

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