The Champions League has already determined the lead-in times, in which UCAM and Karsiyaka will meet again
With morbidity, and a lot, is how UCAM will begin its journey in 2023. The Champions League has already defined the schedules of its eight ‘play-in’ matches, from which half of the remaining teams will come to the ‘top 16’ to complete. ‘, for which at the moment only the teams that finished first in their respective groups are classified. Among them all Spaniards except the Murcians, the only representatives of the Endesa League who will have to overcome this play-off.
There are already schedules for their duel to the death against Pinar Karsiyaka, which will have three games at most. The first, in Murcia on Tuesday, January 3 at 8:30 p.m.; the second, in Izmir on Wednesday the 11th at 6 p.m.; and finally the third and final game, played only if necessary, again at the Palacio de los Deportes on Tuesday, January 17 at 8:30 p.m.
Murcians and Smyrnaians are already close enemies, despite only seeing each other’s faces in one season in their entire history. But what a season. It was in the 2017-2018 season, when both met in the first group stage where sparks flew in the two matches, to see them again, but now for a place in the ‘Final Four’ and many unresolved quarrels, in the quarterfinals.
Now UCAM and Pinar are struggling to get into the top 16 teams of the league and continue to fight for their goal or to return home. Second possibility, this, which will be a solid disappointment for the fallen in the battle, especially in the case of the Turks, who already fell last year in the play-in (against Tenerife, champion in the end) and that they won this last summer have made a significant investment in their team with high-level signings. See Errick McCollum, one of Europe’s most talented individual goalscorers, 2016 EuroCup Champion and MVP; Ángel Delgado, the best rebounder in the Endesa League for the past two seasons; Braian Angola, who arrives after a misstep in Galatasaray; the Browns ex of the Endesa League, Vitto and Jaylon; and of course Mindaugas Kuzminskas, formerly of Unicaja and the NBA and the most coveted long ‘3’ in Europe in the past.
Source: La Verdad
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