Tomas Walkap: He withdrew from Olympiakos training with lower back problems – Papanikolaou has a virus

Tomas Walkup during training on Monday (22/4) withdrew due to back problems, while Kostas Papanikolaou did not participate as he is suffering from a virus. All this two days before Game 1 at the headquarters of Barcelona!

His preparation Olympiakou in view of the first match of the Playoffs in Barcelona continued today Monday (22/4), but in the training apart from the fact that he did not participate Kostas Papanikolaouwho is suffering from a virus, left during its duration and o Thomas Walkup.

The American-Greek guard of the “red and whites” felt discomfort in the back and did not complete the program. He was protected, due to the criticality of the era and the periods we are going through and fatally there is a concern about his degree of readiness to start “duels” with the Barcelona.

The Piraeus on Tuesday (23/4) will leave for the capital of Catalonia, where the Wednesday (24/4, 22:00) they will host the Spaniards, who finished fourth in the regular season in the top club competition and have home advantage over fifth Olympiakou.

In other words, there are still two and a half days left for Papanikolaou to recover his strength and it is time for coach Giorgos Bartzokas to see if Wokap did not complete the exercise program more for preventive reasons or if some issue has arisen with his back.

It is worth noting that the second match of the series, which will also take place at the Palau Blaugrana in Barcelona, ​​is scheduled for April 26 (Friday), while on April 30 the action is transferred to SEF. Apart from the two aforementioned players, there is no problem or question mark with the rest. Since the Philip Petrushev and Nikola Milutinovwho had suffered from injuries in the previous period, is now active and at a competitive pace.