A “hellish” match awaits Real Madrid basketball on May 2 at the Belgrade Arena against Partizanaccording to the Informer portal this Friday, which indicates that all the tickets have already been sold after the victory of the Serbs last night in a match that ended in a brawl between the players.
The Partizan players have been received this Friday with shouts of “champions, champions” after beating Real Madrid in the second game of the Euroleague playoff. “Spectacular reception of the gravediggers (as Partizan fans are called) for the heroes”, summarizes Informer the atmosphere at the Nikola Tesla airport in Belgrade this morning. “An army of fans enthusiastically applauded and raised ovations for Dante Exum, Kevin Punter, Aleksa Avramovic and teammates, and coach Zeljko Obradovic,” he adds.
Exum was injured in the brawl last night on the pitch and arrived in Belgrade on crutches. According to the portal, “now no one doubts that the support in the Belgrade Arena for the third game of the series with Real will be hellish”.
Real Madrid lost again last night 80-95 in a game that was left unfinished when at 1.40 minutes from regulation time there was a general brawl between the two teams and in which both benches were involved. After more than ten minutes of deliberation, the referees ended the match. It was an unprecedented decision and the EuroLeague will have to take action.
“The triumph with the shame of Real”, writes the Serbian newspaper Danas, which indicates that the Madrid point guard Sergio Llull “hit Punter, the Partizan captain, out of sheer impotence, in an unsportsmanlike manner”, which triggered the pitched battle.
“Above all, the power forward Guerschon Yabusele was hard, who attacked Exum and caused him a leg injury”, says the newspaper, which indicates that the Partizan players are “one step away from the dream, qualifying for the final to four”, which they will reach if they win one more game.
The sports newspaper Sportski Zurnal headlines “Only Partizan was real”, and assures that the “nervousness” of the Real Madrid players in the face of the good play by the Belgraders “grew until it exploded”.
“There was nothing real, few behaved like this”among the players and fans of the madridistas, comments the newspaper. Partizan beat Real Madrid in the first game three days ago 89-87, and the other two games in the series to qualify for the final four will be played in Belgrade on May 2 and 4.