Survival and agony exercise for Real Madrid without Tavares or Llull against Fenerbahçe

There are nights when it is better to leave the tuxedo in the closet, which touches a business suit and a pinch of fortune. Fenerbahçe was a tough bone at the WiZink Center, one of those triumphs without memory, because it was soon proven that it was going to be an act of self-love. In that, it is true, there are few teams like Real Madrid. In believing that the circumstances, the feelings and even the rival do the same. Without

, without Llull, without brilliance and with handfuls of suffering, he won the victory, the fourth in this frantic Euroleague, all at home. [70-69: Narration and statistics]

Because it was clear that life is simpler on the shoulders of the giant Tavares.

The skies are dominated and basketball flows, not only in defense despite appearances.

Also without Llull, of course, the type that solves.

The pivot missed the duel for the delivery of his wife and the Spaniard due to some discomfort in his shoulder.

Without beginning or end, Real Madrid suffered a duel of anguish against Fenerbahçe.

And smiles at the end when

hit two free throws in the same abyss and those of

were not able in the last 10 seconds.

A victory almost difficult to imagine as events progressed, but one that has few parents: the momentum of

, the triples of

and the wisdom of

.

JUANJO MARTINEFE

A night of adjustments, of unlikely rotations, of homegrown players who debuted in the Euroleague at the age of 17.

had to appear already in the first act with Poirier's second foul.

Perhaps against the only team in Europe that can look Madrid in the eye in terms of power in the paint, with

... But the young African pivot had nothing to do with the sweats, in a distance that reached to be red alert against the Turks (25-36), who reinvent themselves with Sasha Djordjevic on the bench.

Losses were the ballast, seven in the initial act. And the thicket that set the pace. If in the three previous Euroleague games Madrid had woken up with a bang (more than 30 on average in the first quarter), now it stayed at 10. And only the triple came to the rescue,

to avoid greater evils.

There was 'lasina' at halftime, but Fenerbahçe was a rock. And in Madrid they napped too many.

the first and

the second. Nor was it the day of

. And it cost Poirier, despite his thunderous 17 rebounds. Alocen's energy was trying to infect the rest on the return leg and a triple by Rudy (it doesn't matter when you read this) finally brought a prematurely desperate Madrid closer. It had to be Causeur again, as before the break, with another triple on the horn (the fourth of his account) the one that rang out (50-52), to enter the home straight with the slipstream in his favor.

And there, with the whole team behind his back, Alocén allied himself with Rudy for the heroic.

Because it was clear that the night was not to show off.

All to an agonizing, controversial end when Djordjevic saw the technique with less than three minutes to go, shortly after an unsportsmanlike

on

.

It seemed the end for those from Istanbul, but they had life when

, that genius from Vitoria, nailed a triple out of nowhere.

In the final ladies' game, Poirier's free throws put Madrid ahead with 10 seconds to play.

And he missed the triple

.

And all the suffering suddenly turned into great relief.

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