The basketball players of FC Bayern Munich clearly miss the Euroleague play-offs. In the play-in duel with Real Madrid, you cannot replace the top scorer Carsen Edwards-and look at the actually strong season with mixed feelings.
In the end it should be a game for FC Bayern basketball, which decides on the well -being and woe this season in Europe’s top -class Euroleague. This one game that Play-in against Real Madrid on Friday evening (April 18, 2025) should show whether it will be a grandiose season, including its entry into the play-offs and possible duels with the top team Olympiakos Piraeus. Or whether in the end it will be a season with a lot of heights, but yet an average end result.
Favorite Real Madrid clearly too strong for the Munich
The club’s footballers were this week In a similar situation in the Champions League in the quarter -finals on Inter MilanNow the basketball players should do better and move into the round of the best eight clubs in Europe for the third time. But the opponent Real Madrid is a mammoth among the top clubs in Europe, recently missed the quarter -finals 13 years ago. And nothing should change despite the big struggle of Munich, the Spanish capital club won 93:71 (52:33) on Good Friday at home.
From the beginning, the Madrilenen gave no doubt as to who is the favorite in this decisive game, and already ended the first quarter with a 16 -point lead. “It’s hard,” said Munich coach Gordon Herbert after the game, “because we had 32 good games this season. But it is as it is: you have to praise this performance.”
Injury shock: FC-Bayern-Topscorer Carsen Edwards fails
For the Upper Bavaria, there is a strong Euroleague season with a few heights such as the successes against FC Barcelona or Paris Basketball (which will take part in the play-offs) or the Highly dramatic victory in the first game of the play-ins against Red Stern Belgrade Last Tuesday with 97:93 (84:84, 39:46) after extra time. But that also remains that the Munich gave the big throw and, as in the two previous years, did not achieve the top eight. And the truth also includes: their opportunities to move into the play-offs, they already had in the league, the detour play-ins could have been prevented with a victory in Tel Aviv two weeks ago. And so (as with the footballers) the championship is possible – and now urgently demanded at the club that is so ambitious.
Perhaps the team of coach Herbert had lost this game a little before the game on Friday. Finally, it had to accept a bitter damper: the top scorer Carsen Edwards, the outstanding Munich team of this season, was out because of a back injury, he had traveled as a supporter on the side of the side and will be missing in “in the next few weeks”.
Edwards as second Bundesliga professional In the all-euroleague first team
Real against Bavaria – without Edwards, it was even more a huge task: the Texaner shone for the Munich in the Euroleague with an average number of points of 20.5 per game and was appointed to the all -euroleague first team for his performance on Friday. According to FCBB captain Vladimir Lucic (2020/21), he is only the second player of a Bundesliga team who is in the top five of the European premier class. “Carsen had an outstanding Euroleague season, he absolutely deserved this great award,” said Herbert before the game.
As if he suspected what blossomed his team afterwards. Real was much more focused from the start – and, thanks to an outstanding Mario Hezonja (top scorer with 19 points; like FCBB player Shabazz Napier), brilliant. It was 33:17 after the first quarter. And only in the second did the Munich team had the chance to get back again when Real litter could not sink around litter. But on the other hand, the same picture was fatally offered: the Munich team also left the best opportunities on points.
National coach Alex Mumbru and Ex-Real-Star striker Raul in the hall
Edwards and Herbert on the sidelines looked more unfortunate on the floor from minute to minute, because the Madrilenen expanded their lead under the eyes of German national coach Alex Mumbru and the former real and Schalke star striker Raul Gonzalez Blanco. And thanks to their experience and efficiency, they could not take the play-off.
In the end, it was this one game in which the FC Bavaria basketball players were not completely there and the big favorite Real Madrid, whom they were still able to defeat in Munich in January, just documents. Nevertheless, as a whole, they put a strong Euroleague season. Her coach Gordon Herbert also value this late Friday evening.
Source: BR24Sport in Radio 19.04.2025 – 06:55 a.m.
