Monaco in the Championship final, the title within reach
Roca Team basketball players beat Pau-Lacq-Orthez 3 to 1 on Thursday evening. They are delighted with Villeurbanne in the final of the Elite.
Monaco went to Pau to get their ticket for the championship final this Thursday evening. The Roca Team snatched victory against Elan Béarnais, 85 to 83. They thus conclude the series in the semi-finals 3 to 1 and avoid a decisive match 5 trap at Gaston-Médecin on Sunday.
“We knew it wasn’t going to be easysaid Sasa Obradovic, the Roca Team coach after the match. The way they (the Pau-Lacq-Orthez players, Ed) played and with great temperament showed that. Now we have worked all season to get there in the final.”
We are in a very good position to get what we want.
Sasa Obradovic, Roca Team coach
Next step for Sasa Obradovic’s players: the final against Villeurbanne, the other representative of the hexagonal basket in the Euroleague. But before that, the Monegasques will above all be able to take advantage of a few days of rest to recharge their batteries, while Asvel have already validated their place in the final for three days.
his return to the elite of French basketball, Monaco has since won the Leaders Cup three times (2016, 2017 and 2018)mid-season competition between the first eight of the first leg, as well as the Eurocoupe, antechamber of the Euroleague, last year, but has always failed in the French championship.
In the play-offs, out of five defeats, Monaco lost three times against Asvel : in the quarter-finals in 2016/17, in the semi-finals in 2015/16, and in the final in 2018/19.
This season, Asvel will have the advantage of the field in the final, thanks to their first place at the end of the regular season, a defeat more than Monaco (9 against 8). The first two rounds and the eventual decisive match 5 will thus be played at the Astroballe.
-with AFP