Maccabi Tel Aviv will go up tonight (Thursday, 22:00) to Sal Gaston Madzin in Monaco for the 26th round of the Euroleague.
The Yellows are ranked eighth on the eve of the round with 13 wins and 12 losses, with the French rival ranked three places above them with 15 wins and 10 losses.
"We will do everything to win this game."
Sorkin (Photo: Danny Maron)
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Oded Ketch's players arrived in the French principality yesterday evening and will conduct the shooting training this morning with tactical emphasis, with an additional video briefing on the opponent planned until the game.
Maccabi Tel Aviv have been living Monaco for at least a week, since the last game against Bayern Munich, and believe that they can surprise one of the best teams in the factory.
"Obviously they are favorites, except for one or two teams in the Euroleague, every team that comes here is an underdog," Maccabi Tel Aviv admitted yesterday, "that doesn't mean we don't come to win. There is a game plan, if we execute it properly, there is a chance. There is They have weak points, you have to attack them there."
"We will try to take the energy from the end of the previous game," promised Roman Sorkin, "we thought, watched video and worked on the things we need to fix. We will come prepared. We are in good shape, we won the last game. Every game is important to us, the table is very tight. We will do everything to to win this game. We worked on closing for the rebound, which is something that was important to us - we didn't do a good job in the previous game. We worked on the opponent and ourselves mainly. We come prepared."
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"We are definitely ready."
Martin (photo: Bernie Ardov)
"We know it was difficult for us to get wins in the away games, but we are definitely ready," said Jarl Martin before leaving for the south of France, "We know how important it is to finish the season strongly in order to qualify for the playoffs. We are ready to go and hope to return with a win . We should want it more than them. The coaches have been talking for the last few days about the fact that we start games slowly and come back in the second half. We need to be better, get into things in the first and second quarters and not get into a situation where we have to make comebacks."
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