Monbus Obradoiro 76-74 FC Barcelona: Agonising loss
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Monbus Obradoiro 76-74 FC Barcelona: Agonising loss

A dramatic game is decided in the home side's favour in the final seconds

Barça have lost in the Liga Endesa at Monbus Obradoiro in a game where the home side were able to punish them for their errors in the final period.

And that was despite a promising start, in which Mirotic led the way to a +6 lead at the end of the first, but the Galicians refused to allow their guests to move too far ahead and the game was very much still on at the break.

Barça tried to impose their greater defensive physique in the third, but they just couldn't grab the game by the scruff of the neck, and going into the last ten minutes were even trailing by a point.

Just when they really needed to make an impact was when things stopped happening. Obradoiro moved to +7 but the blaugrana collapse was immediately reversed by back-to-back threes from Higgins and Satoransk. But the home side somehow managed to hang on, and Barça lost in exasperating fashion.

Next up in a Friday night EuroLeague game with Asvel Villeurbanne at 8.30pm CET.

MATCH STATS

Monbus Obradoiro: Philip Scrubb (15), Thomas Scrubb (13), Muñoz (11), Álex Suárez (3), Vicedo (2),. Blazevic (13), Robertson (11), Guerrero (8), Zurbriggen (-) Paz (-).
Barça:  Satoranski (12), Laprovittola (15), Vesely (10), Pauli (2), Mirotic (14),. Da Silva (2), Higgins (12), Tobey (3), Kuric (2), Jokubaitis (2).
Periods: 22-28 / 40-43 / 59-58  76-74
Referees: García González, Rafael Serrano & David Sánchez.

 

 

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