Brutal pitched battle between Real Madrid and Partizan in the Euroleague

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Obradovic’s team passes over Chus Mateo’s (80-95) in a duel that was suspended two minutes from the end after a fight that involved most of the players

If in the first round of the Euroleague quarterfinals Partizan dealt a psychological blow to Real Madridin the second he threw it on the canvas, riddled with the multiples that he proposed Zeljka Obradovic. Except for individual attempts led by Rudy Fernández or ‘Chacho’ Fernández, Chus Mateo’s men never managed to be in a game that derailed in the final moments with a pitched battle that cut the game off with two minutes to go.

The culmination of a fateful night that further heats the hell to which he will have to submit in Belgrade. In the Euroleague, No team has been able to overcome a 0-2 loss in foreign territory. It does not seem that the irregular white team is going to be capable.

When the match seemed doomed to extinction, a very hard free kick by Sergio Llull on Punter led the Partizan player to raise his hand to the locals. The court caught fire and became a ring of giants where Yabusele threw Exum to the groundvisibly stunned. They had to take the Frenchman off the field. The referees were forced to review the bout. The decision was to end the match with two minutes to go. A sad climax to a sad night for Real Madrid.

Chus Mateo apologized to the fans after the game. “We all intoned the ‘mea culpa’ and apologized, but you have to understand that the players are many beats away.”

So did Rudy Fernández, the whites’ captain. “We have to apologize to all basketball fans. It’s something you don’t have to see. I hope this doesn’t happen again,” said the player, who rushed to try to calm the waters by leaving the parquet hugging Obradovic.

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The Serbian coach agreed with the conciliatory tone. “What has been seen today is not good for the Euroleague, for Madrid or for anyone. From today I will make calls so that Madrid has a good reception in Belgrade. We all have to help and I am the first. I want people to talk of basketball”.

The game ended less than two minutes after the expulsions of the players who were on the parquet and those who jumped from the bench, which made it impossible to conclude the game. Significant penalties are expected.



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