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Euroleague: Monaco muzzles Asvel after a rough match

Monaco is touching on the Euroleague play-offs, thanks to its success in Villeurbanne (87-77) on Thursday after a clash as messy as it was uncertain, during the 32nd and antepenultimate day of the regular season.

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Euroleague: Monaco muzzles Asvel after a rough match

Monaco is touching on the Euroleague play-offs, thanks to its success in Villeurbanne (87-77) on Thursday after a clash as messy as it was uncertain, during the 32nd and antepenultimate day of the regular season.

Even if their competitors were faultless, a single success at home against poorly ranked teams would be enough to seal the Roca Team's qualification for the final phase and therefore their return to the Euroleague next season. Whether against the Lithuanians of Kaunas (11th) next week or Bayern Munich (15th) the following.

In the meantime, between Villeurbanne and Monaco, the neo-classic remains one-way, at least this season since it is the fifth Monegasque success in as many confrontations. And even the tenth in a row: the Roca Team has not lost since the coronation of Asvel during the fifth match of the final of the 2022 French championship.

For the Rocher club, the ambition of top-4 in the regular season is intact and it can even dream of second place in the event of a setback by Panathinaikos in Bologna on Friday (8:30 p.m.). After a fanfare start (23-12) at the end of the first quarter), Sasa Obradovic's men completely lost track upon returning from the locker room.

Particularly approximate from a distance, they had to wait for their 13th attempt behind the arc for it to finally open their 3-point counter with less than two minutes remaining in the third quarter. It was Elie Okobo (16 pts in total), the former Villeurbanne resident and MVP of the 2022 finals, who unlocked it. His winning shot, followed by a second immediately, initiated the comeback of the Monegasques, then trailing by 11 lengths (61-50).

Despite a beautiful basket, from a shot from a good two meters behind the halfway line and enhanced by a free throw for a foul, Nando De Colo will have to wait one more game and three points to overtake the Greek Vassilis Spanoulis (4,455 pts ) as runner-up to Mike James, nervous but author of 12 points on Thursday, in the ranking of the best scorers in the history of the Euroleague (4,523 pts). It will probably be next Thursday, on the floor of his former club Valencia

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