Barça 71-66 FC Bayern Munich: Made to work hard for the win

Commitment and consistency brought about this win. Barça beat Bayern Munich 71-66 in a game that could have gone either way with both sides struggling in the first half. The home side were more effective after the break, but it took the last 4 minutes for Barça to take the decisive steps to win. Kuric top scored for the game and for Barça with 20 points.

Low scoring start

Defence ruled from the outset, with the first quarter score only 9-9. Bayern managed to go 9-15 up during the second quarter, through steals, blocks, and turnovers, but Barça reacted to go in 28-29 at half time.

Better after the break

Exum and Jukubaitis were more prominent for Barça in the third quarter, helping the home side to go into the final quarter 45-41 up. However, Bayern scored 0-9 to take a 47-50 lead after just 3 minutes of the fourth quarter. Barça responded through Exum and Kuric - 4/4 three-pointers - clawing back the score to 63-61 with 3 minutes to go. Saras' team then saw out the game for their 18th win in this season's EuroLeague (71-66).

Game stats:

FC Barcelona, 71
FC Bayern Munich, 66

Barça: Laprovittola (-), Calathes (8), Hayes Davis (-), Mirotic (13) and Sanli (2) - starters -, Davies (8), Exum (9), Martinez (-), Smits (6), Jokubaitis (5), Nnaji (-) and Kuric (20). 

Bayern Munich: Weiler-Babb (9), George (-), Lucic (16), Rubit (2) and Radosevic (3) - starters -, Thomas (9), Walden (5), Hunter (-), Jaramaz (15), Obst (3), Sisko (4) and Schilling (-).  

By quarter: 9-9 / 19-20 / 17-12 / 26-25

Referees: Luigi Lamonica, Sreten Radovic and Mario Majkic.