Tenerife-Peristeri bwin: Historic semi-final in the BCL for Spanoulis’ team – Basketball

He has a date with history tonight Pigeon bwin!

His armada Vasilis Spanoulis, is deservedly in the top four of this year Basketball Champions League, participating for the first time in the history of Final 4 European event!

Never before, the “Princes of the West Bank” have not reached so far in Europe, not even in the years when the late “Andreas Papandreou” was in the closed, Alphonso Fordwhen the then team in the 2000/01 season had reached the last 16 of the Euroleague, before being eliminated by Baskonia.

So tonight, the Peristerians face off against the Tenerife in the first semi-final of the Belgrade Final 4 which will be held in the impressive “Stark Arena” (19:00, sport-fm.gr, bwinSPORT FM 94.6, Cosmotesports 4), aiming for another “miracle” and qualification to the grand final of the event!

This year, the bwin dove has… pierced its ceiling, playing an excellent basketball with duration and consistency throughout the season, both in Greece and in Europe. With successive overruns, from the second phase of the BCL, when they met with her back to the… wall and from 0-3, and finally qualified for the quarterfinals with a 3-3 record, even the upset against the trophy holder Bonn (2-1), with two “close” and above all dominant victories, initially in Athens and then in Game 3 in Germany!

Against him, the Dove will find her Tenerifewhich is one of the three Spanish teams that will be “present” in the Final 4, since at 22:00, the Murthy will face her Unicaja Malaga in the second semi-final.

Javier Albert’s side are in 6th place in the Spanish league with a record of 19-11, while, at BCL level, they had to overcome their hurdle Turkish Tofa (2-1 wins), taking advantage of the home advantage she had, having taken both of her victories at “Santiago Martin”.

It should be noted that this is not the first time that the two teams will face each other this year, since their duels were preceded in the “16” phase. Back then, the Spanish had prevailed by 89-68 at home, with Peristeri getting the rematch with score 90-82.

On a competitive level, the experienced Brazilian guard stands out from the Tenerife roster, Marcelo Huertas, who in his 40s averages 15.8 points and 7.9 assists in the event! Danger… death for the opposing defenses is also the former “green”, Kyle Guy, with 20.6 points and 2.7 assists on average in 9 BCL games.

Finally, regarding injuries and absences, Vassilis Spanoulis is happy to count on all his players, at the same time that Tenerife will be absent Jaime Fernandez.

Referees: Zuranovic (Bosnia), Magzoni (Italy), Krajic (Slovenia).

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