Monaco wants to repair the front
Emmanuel LANGELLIER, Media365: published on Thursday 09 December 2021 at 23:47
Opposed to Olimpia Milan, Monaco wants to return to victory in the Euroleague Friday night after four straight losses.
AS Monaco sees a great challenge on Friday in the Euroleague (8 p.m.). Ranked 13th in the competition, the Monegasque club faces Olimpia Milan with the goal of winning again. Monaco remains in fact on four consecutive losses in the European Cup and will try to revive at home against the Milanese team, 4th in the hierarchy. At home, the record is 4-2, something to be optimistic about against the former leader of the Euroleague who collapsed following, like the ASM, four defeats in a row.
Monaco will, moreover, arrived on the momentum of a beautiful victory won on Tuesday against ASVEL (84-82) in Betclic Elite, which allowed him to return to a success of the leader, Boulogne-Levallois. “After the good match and the victory against ASVEL, the coming of Milan, a great European is a very important event for us to stop the spiral of defeats in EuroLeague. We have to go forward in front of our home crowd and that goes through defense first and foremost. If we are efficient in this area, we can hope to get victory, ”said Rudy Demahis-Ballou, the leader of the Roca Team.
Mitrovic: “We must raise our defensive level to seek great victories on the European scene”
Doubt remains on the presence of Mike James, author of 31 points during the last continental outing against Fenerbahçe before leaving in the last minute, affected in the leg. We imagine that he would like not to miss the reunion with his former club (he had finished top scorer in the Euroleague with the Italian club and 19.8 points in 2018-19), which has posted an impeccable record of 10 victories this season. in as many matches in the Italian league. “Milan are a great club with a great coach and a top-notch squad cut out to play leading roles in EuroLeague. My team reacted well in the league against ASVEL, we have to regret injuries but we hope that Mike James will be able to play. Everyone knows that we have to raise our defensive level to go for great victories on the European stage. This is our challenge ”, assured Zvezdan Mitrovic, the Monegasque coach.