Basketball, Euroleague: Virtus Bologna wins again: Asvel defeated 90-83

You see a French team… and you win. Two successes in one week in the Euroleague for Virtus Bologna, who beat Asvel 90-83 on the outskirts of Lyon and climbed a young Euroleague ranking, going positive in the win-loss balance (3-2) while waiting for the values ​​to settle down. On Wednesday, Monaco lost at the PalaDozza. For the en plein win they will need to beat Cremona, at home, on Monday evening. Carsen Edwards is still decisive, first scoring 20 in two quarters and then firing up again when he has to run away in the fourth quarter. At the end of the game they had 36 points: a career high in the Euroleague after 34 last year. Twenty minutes on the court and 2 points for Luca Vildoza, waiting to understand how the affair in which he is accused of injuring healthcare workers will end.

Asvel-Virtus Bologna 83-90

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The game, always in balance, turns only in the fourth quarter when the Vu Nere find the feeling with the three-point shot. After collecting irons in the third quarter, the last period opens with triples from Pajola (4/6 at 40′, all decisive) and Edwards which are worth the first significant break, +7 (64-71) at 33′. A break born from the post-interval resistance, with Asvel always ahead, even on +6 with points from Watson, Lighty and Ndiaye, while Bologna acts as a rubber wall and remains clinging with the gusts of Pajola first (two triples), Smailagic (6 points in a row) and then Jallow (10 points for him), invaluable at the end of the third period to halve the deficit with a three-point play after a ball recovered by the defense. Small happy note because unfortunately there are many more lost, 17, a negative constant of the entire challenge. But in the fourth period there is no story: Bologna proves more solid and Edwards increasingly decisive, possession after possession. Until the triple to make it 75-82 with 2’41” to go which earned the closing credits.

Leadership

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The top scorer of the last Euroleague was also the absolute protagonist of the first half of the match, with 20 points scored in 13 minutes of use. Not enough to arrive at half-time ahead in the score (42-40 for Asvel), thanks to the 10 turnovers which also nullified the 5 extra rebounds collected. In addition to some defensive mistakes, paid dearly against an opponent who scores a lot, especially at home. For the Lyon team, Watson’s 20 points, De Colo’s experience nor Ndiaye’s near double double (7 rebounds) were not enough, while Jackson only had 13 minutes due to an injury.

Asvel: Watson 24, Ndiaye 11, De Colo 10

Bologna: Edwards 36, Pajola 14, Smailagic 13