A Barça in crisis is measured to an improved Fenerbahçe
BARCELONA, Jan. 15 (SportsFinding) –
Barça visit Fenerbahçe Beko Istanbul on Thursday at the Ulker Sports and Event Hall – 18.45 hours / DAZN -, on the 20th day of the Euroleague, with the clear intention and almost need to win an improved Turkish team so as not to lengthen the streak of consecutive losses.
Despite fighting until the end and against the tide, Barça fell on Tuesday on the still impregnable track of Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv (92-85), unable to stop the streak in triple the Hebrews in time and paying very expensive their 17 lost the ball.
A defeat that joins the embedded in the previous two days against Anadolu Efes Istanbul (82-86) and Baskonia (76-74), in two games that could well end up being Blaugrana. And this is the case of the Svetislav Pesic team, which wants to change the dynamics.
In any of the most recent seasons, visiting Fenerbahçe and winning was a very complicated mission. This season, with the bad opening of Euroleague that has made the team of Zeljko Obradovic, and although they are straightening the course, it does not seem so impossible to win.
Zalgiris, Anadolu Efes, Zenit St. Petersburg and Valencia have won at the Ulker Sports and Event Hall. Barça wants to be the fifth assailant of the Ottoman fief, although for this it will be necessary to change the chip, mentally, and modify the game too static of the last games.
In addition, this Fenerbahçe seems to have already left the well, and accumulates three consecutive victories. If you look at the last three days, Fenerbahçe is 3-0 and Barça with 0-3, so this pulse is crucial for both, to try to continue climbing the premises and to cut the sangria, the Blaugrana.
In the first round, at Palau Blaugrana, Barça won 89-63 in a great game of the Catalans, led by the 22 points of Cory Higgins. But, in the Fenerbahçe, there was a Nando De Colo who already has the reins of the 'Fener' in his possession, as he showed with his 16 points in the recent victory over ASVEL Villeurbanne (86-64).
DATA SHEET.
–EQUIPMENT.
FENERBAHÇE: De Colo, Westermann, Datome, Williams and Thomas – possible initial five; Nunnally, Mahmutoglu, Kalinic, Sloukas, Vesely, Muhammed, Lauvergne.
BARÇA: Hanga, Higgins, Claver, Mirotic and Davies – possible initial five–; Ribas, Smits, Oriola, Abrines, Delaney, Kuric, Tomic.
– ARBITRATORS: Javor, Bissang and Foufis.
– PAVILION: Ulker Sports and Event Hall.