After all the previous round games in the Euroleague have been canceled due to the Corona illness in the various teams, the senior European factory will return to activity tonight (Tuesday) – with the partial opening of the double round. So far, nine of the 18 games expected in the next 72 hours have been postponed.
Maccabi Tel Aviv will not be able to host Alba Berlin tomorrow, due to the outbreak of the virus in the German team, which will also not appear for this weekend’s game against Fenerbahce. As long as no other verifiers have been found in the ranks of the Israeli champion, she will be hosted by Panathinaikos on Friday; If two or three more cases are discovered in Maccabi, this game is also expected to be postponed.
Pau is one of the teams to have recovered from the Corona plague, though it remains to be seen how its players’ playing ability will be affected as a result of the complete shutdown, isolation and symptoms of the disease. In a similar situation are Olympiacos, Barcelona and Olympia Milan.
As of this hour, four games from the second round of the week have been postponed. Apart from Alba, Zenit St. Petersburg, Onyx Kazan and the Red Star Belgrade are also completely shut down until next week.
The nine games that will take place in the double round, so far:
Tonight: Fenerbahce – Olympiacos, Bayern Munich – Zalgiris Kaunas, Barcelona – Milan.
Tomorrow: Panathinaikos – CSKA Moscow.
Thursday: Bayern – Monaco, Barcelona – Anadolu Zero.
Friday: CSKA – Wheelerban, Panathinaikos – Maccabi Tel Aviv, Real – Basconia.
The EuroCup is also back in action tonight, after three weeks of pre-arranged break in favor of Christmas and the New Year. Three of the nine games scheduled to take place this week have been postponed, with Gal Makal’s Andorra among the disabled teams, who have meanwhile managed to reappear in the Spanish league.
The Israeli derby between Makal and Andorra and Labloa and Tomer Ginat, in the previous round, resulted in an outbreak of 14 infected (seven in each group). The French have left for Lithuania and will play tonight against Leitkablis.
In the Champions League, there has been a real disruption in the schedules, despite the spacious placement for the entire season. Five of the eight playoff series opened as a sorter last week, while Hapoel Jerusalem was still completing its appearances in the home leg against Menersa.
Tomorrow, the Reds will host Prometay in the opening of the playoff series, while Shiktash and Hapoel Holon will already have their second game. Three series were suspended due to finding verified in some of the groups.