Between "shame" and reaction: the final against Bayern that no one expected at Jasikevicius' Barça

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Just over two months ago, everything was euphoria and plans for greatness at Barça.

They had just won the Cup final against Real Madrid, they were leading the ACB and the Euroleague and the eternal rival, defeated time and time again, was going to get bogged down in a deep crisis of results and sensations.

Now, however, it is

' men who are not fueling up as predicted and

's men who await a rival in the Final Four in Belgrade.

Because this Tuesday (8:00 p.m., DAZN), Barça has an unexpected final at the Palau.

A fifth game without a net against Bayern Munich.

Against the eighth ranked team in the regular phase of the Euroleague, who obtained a ticket to the quarterfinals thanks mainly to the expulsion of the three Russian teams (CSKA, Zenit and UNICS) due to the invasion of Ukraine.

And that, to make matters worse, he lost one of his references,

, as soon as the series began (

is also low).

But it is difficult to trust a team led by the histrionic

.

The Germans, who already forced the fifth against Armani Milan last year, surprised Barça at the Palau in the second game - an exhibition by former

(25 points, 6 of 7 three-pointers) - and also in the fourth in Munich .

They come now with nothing to lose, a danger.

More checking the doubts that, suddenly, have assaulted Barça.

"Hard Defeat"

Jasikevicius' usual accusatory rants after each loss for his team raised the bar after scoring just 52 points at the Audi Dome.

"The culprit is not the coach, nor the referee, nor the rival... the culprit is you. Each one has to look in the mirror and I hope they feel ashamed because I feel it. I don't know whether to apologize for the image of the team", proclaimed the Lithuanian, who already in the previous one had doubted that his team would be able to close the series away from home.

"It's a tough defeat for the team's image. It's not the first time this team has done this. We're not going to lie to our fans. Such a brutal change in 48 hours is very hard to accept. We have one of the best players of Europe here", continued Saras, who has seen how his team has lost six of the last 12 games played, just when the season's moment of truth is approaching and the team's sole objective is to reconquer the Euroleague that last year lost in the final against Efes.

The endorsement for Barça, who took a break against Burgos on Sunday in the ACB, is that they have never won a fifth away game in the entire history of the Euroleague.

Although for Tuesday to be a party and in a few days he will travel to Belgrade to repeat the Clásico against Madrid in the Final Four, he must recover, among other things, the foreign success.

Between

(3 of 20) and

, they have only made 8 of the last 36 three-pointers.

is his only casualty, about to return from his foot operation.

With Real Madrid and Efes already waiting for a rival after solving their qualifiers against Maccabi and Olimpia Milan respectively, the series between Olympiacos and the surprising Monaco also travels to the fifth round.

It will be on Wednesday (8:30 pm) in Piraeus, with the clear favoritism of the locals.

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