Euroleague: What Panathinaikos and Olympiacos need for home advantage – The scenarios – 2024-04-05 05:42:20

The 33rd matchday of the Euroleague ends on Friday night, from which, as everything shows, the landscape regarding the final classification of Panathinaikou and his Olympiakou.

The “red and white” ensured their presence in the playoffs by winning hard Red Star in the Belgrade with 89-86, while o Panathinaikos faces tonight the Bayern in the Munich (5/4 21:30). The “greens” locked in their presence in the top six that leads directly to the play-offs after the win Barcelona on her Maccabi.

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Panathinaikos, Olympiacos and the advantage

The “regulator” of the final ranking that the two Greek teams will receive is the Panathinaikos. This is because the greens with two wins in the remaining matches against Bayern and Alba they ensure whatever happens in the other matches the 2nd place and advantage headquarters.

There is also that scenario which can send Panathinaikos with home advantage in the playoffs even if he wins one of the two remaining matches. In this case, the “greens” will turn their sights to Fenerbahcewhich in case he is defeated tonight from Ephesus and beat Olympiakos in the CHEF the last matchday, then he will keep his team Ataman in the top 4. In any other case, Panathinaikos will finish below 4th place.

Considering the above, Olympic is waiting possible lol of Panathinaikos – especially tonight in Berlin – so that he can enter he in the top 4 and take it advantage headquarters in the playoffs. This will of course happen if parallel prevail her Fenerbahce the last matchday in Faliro. In any other case, the “red and whites” will finish below 4th place.

Finally, in… crazy scenario of the four-way tie between Panathinaikos, Olympiacos, Fenerbahce and Monaco (this will happen if Olympiacos win, Panathinaikos 1/2 wins, Barcelona lose to Villeurbanne and Monaco to Bayern), then Panathinaikos will finish 2nd, Monaco 3rd, Barcelona 4th and Olympiacos 5th.

It is recalled that the six teams that “locked” their presence in the playoffs are Real Madrid, Panathinaikos, Monaco, Olympic, Fenerbahce. The teams that will finish from 7th up to 10th place in the regular season they will fight for the two remaining tickets through the play-in process.