The fourth match of the series will take place on Friday in Kaunas at 20:00.
The third battle of the teams started again for the totally inept Kaunas team – the Turks broke away 10-2 in the first few minutes and increased the lead. After the first quarter, Fenerbahce led 25:12.
In the second half, the difference was even increased to 35:16. At that time, Sylvain Francisco, the leader of “Žalgiris”, scored 7 points in a row and the Kaunas team gradually reduced the difference.
After two quarters, Šarūnas Jasikevičius’ army led only with a single-digit difference – 42:35.
At the beginning of the third quarter, after three points by Moses Wright, the difference decreased to 4 points – 38:42.
The Turks reorganized their attack and again pulled away to 56:48, but before the decisive half, Fenerbahce was ahead 62:57.
Shar’s army started the fourth quarter much better and pulled away 68:59. However, after the efforts of Ažuolos Tubelis, the difference in the 6th minute. decreased to 68:70. And the fight is less than 3 minutes away. after A. Tubeli’s four points led 74-72.
After that, the people of Kaunas increased the difference to 79:74, and the opponents with 8 seconds left. reduced the difference to 76:79. However, Kaunas kept the advantage and trailed 1:2 in the series to three wins.
“Zalgiris”: Ažuolas Tubelis 26 (6 rebounds), Nigel Williams-Goss 18, Sylvain Francisco 12 (7 rebounds, 8 assists), Moses Wright 11 (6 rebounds).
Fenerbahce: Wade Baldwin 16, Talen Horton Tucker 15, Devon Hall 14, Tarik Biberovic 10.
After defeating Fenerbahce twice in the regular season, Žalgiris was properly stuck in the playoffs, losing both times in the quarterfinals in Istanbul, 78-89 and 74-86, and falling behind 0-2 in their three-game winning streak.
On Wednesday, the people of Kaunas could not stumble, because otherwise Sharas and his army would put the dream ticket to the final four of the Euroleague in his pocket, and the people of Žalgiris would say goodbye to the tournament and their dream after an 8-year break and fight again in the final four.
During the entire history of confrontations between teams, “Fenerbahce” fought much more successfully, which has 23 wins on its account, while “Žalgiris” – 14.
