2023-10-12 22:01:24
Nando de Colo’s teammates were crushed this Thursday evening against Partizan Belgrade (88-62).
Villeurbanne lost to Partizan Belgrade (88-62) on Thursday in its home venue at the Astroballe de Villeurbanne for the 2nd day of the Euroleague basketball tournament, thus conceding its second defeat in as many matches.
Asvel is thus starting this new European season as poorly as it ended the 2022-2023 financial year: at the bottom of the ranking with thirteen losses in a row. This series has now been extended to fifteen lost matches and President Tony Parker’s team is already at the bottom.
And the rest promises to be very difficult for the Rhone club which will only play at home one of its next six matches in the Euroleague with in particular two meetings, always delicate to negotiate, in Istanbul next week, against Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe.
To start the 2023-2024 competition, the Villeurbannais lost from the start on the floor of the Red Star of Belgrade (94-73), on October 5, which constituted the third defeat in a row in all competitions after the defeats against Monaco and Saint-Quentin in the French championship for a total of 274 points conceded (91.3 on average). The victory over Nancy (89-64), Sunday in Elite, had nevertheless brought a renewed confidence but Asvel did not at all meet expectations on Thursday against a Serbian opponent with greater potential at the start.
The first half was already very difficult, ending with a deficit of fourteen points (43-29). In the second half, the correction took an even more severe turn with the gap increasing to thirty points (68-38, 70-40) three minutes from the end of the third quarter, reduced at the end of the match to 26 ( 88-62).
Over the entire game, the three-point record was poor (4/25, 16%), fourteen lost balls (compared to ten), nine assists compared to 18 for Partizan. Inside, Asvel suffered a lot, in particular Joffrey Lauvergne was very quickly sanctioned with two faults and preserved while the configuration of the meeting did not allow the other pivot of the team, Youssoupha Fall to bring a better in this sector of play. He did not enter.
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