Barça and Anadou Efes faces are seen in the grand finale of the Euroleague, in a meeting that seems historic for both teams. The Blaugrana team is once again in a final of the maximum continental competition at club level, since they suffered greatly to overcome the Olympia Milan in the semifinals, the team of Ettore Messina.
The Barça, trained by Sarunas Jasikevicius, suffered a lot against the Italian team in the semifinals, where he came with an interesting income at halftime, but in the second half the Olympia Milan he pushed too hard to be in the final. He has subscribed to suffer to continue on in the Euroleague, since before the Final four, already had to go to the limit in the quarterfinals, where he beat the Zenith of St. Peterburg in the fifth game in the Palau Blaugrana. He suffered and was very close to being 0-2 in the tie, but he was able to get it out the Barça and now he has all the possible options against the Italian team.
Nikola Mirotic shot the car throughout the match, but without a doubt the decisive man was Cory Higgins, who scored the winning basket in the absence of just 5 tenths, which gave the victory to Barça 84-82, with a jump shot. Pau Gasol returned to leave quality minutes, in addition to the annotation and control of Nick calathes, who ended up with an ankle injury and it remains to be seen if he can reach the final.
The blaugrana team has a very solid path in the Euroleague, since in addition to leaving behind Zenit of Saint Petersburg and Olympia Milan in direct duels, they got first place in the regular phase. Now they will face the Anadolu Efes, who also suffered before CSKA Moscow, which he beat 89-86.
Both teams have met twice in the regular season, both with victory for the Turks. In the Palau Blaugrana, the Anadolu efes won by a tight 86-88, while in IstanbulHe also won 86-79. In this decisive match, the Barcelona will have to give a plus to overcome the Ottoman team.
The Anadolu efes count on the MVP of the regular phase of the Euroleague, the base Vasilije Micic, who went up to 25 points against the CSKA Moscow and it was key in the victory against the Russians. In addition, he is accompanied by quality players such as Shane Larkin, Rodrigue Beaubois or Serçat Sanli, which provides high-level indoor play.
The Anadolu efes finished the regular phase of the Euroleague in third place in the standings with 22 wins and 12 losses, two games away from the Barça, which led the instance of regularity with 24 games won by 10 lost.
Both are the winners of the semifinals that faced them CSKA Moscow and Olympia Milan, who will previously play the match for the third and fourth place of this Final four that is disputed in Cologne.
When is Barça – Anadolu Efes played?
The game is played today, Sunday, May 30, at 20.30 hours
Where to see Barça – Anadolu Efes?
The encounter can be seen by the DAZN platform, which exclusively covers the Euroleague in order to Spain. You can follow all the information about the match live on the Mundo Deportivo website.