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Here are some interesting facts about the duel.

Game Facts: UNICS Kazan vs. FC Bayern Munich

### UNICS Kazan

**Roster**
O.J Mayo and Artem Komolov are in line to make their respective EuroLeague debuts.

**Streaks**
Mario Hezonja has scored at least 12 points in nine of his last 10 games.
Hezonja has made at least 1 three-pointer in nine of his last 10 games.

**Rankings**
Viacheslav Zaitcev ranked sixth last season with 1.32 steals per game and Lorenzo Brown was eighth with 1.30 per game.

**Records/Milestones**
Andrey Vorontsevich is in 14th place all-time with 276 games played in the competition. He needs to appear in 2 more games to catch Dimitris Diamantidis for 13th place.

Game Notes: UNICS Kazan vs. FC Bayern Munich

· This is the first-ever EuroLeague meeting between these two teams.

· The two teams played in the 7DAYS EuroCup Quarterfinals in the 2017-18 season. Bayern won the best-of-three series in which the home team won each game.

· Bayern head coach Andrea Trinchieri returns to Kazan where he coached UNICS in the 2013-14 season. He won the Russian Cup with the team, guided it to the EuroCup Finals, and was named EuroCup Coach of the Year that season.

· Bayern forward Vladimir Lucic played under current UNICS coach Velimir Perasovic for a season and a half, from 2013 to 2015, at Valencia Basket.

· Bayern big man Leon Radosevic was still a teenager when he made his EuroLeague debut with Cibona Zagreb. It was Coach Perasovic who made him a full-time starter in the 2009-10 season.

· Bayern swingman Darrun Hilliard made his EuroLeague debut with Baskonia in the 2018-19 season where he played under Coach Perasovic.

· Bayern forward DeShaun Thomas and his UNICS counterpart Mario Hezonja were teammates at FC Barcelona during the 2014-15 season.

· UNICS center Tonye Jekiri posted his career-high with 4 steals playing for LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne against Bayern in February 2020. He dished a career-best 5 assists with Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz against Bayern in March 2021.

· UNICS guard Evgeny Valiev grabbed a career-high 6 rebounds playing for Khimki Moscow Region against Bayern in January of last season.

· UNICS guard Viatcheslav Zaitcev collected a career-best 4 steals playing for Khimki Moscow Region against Bayern last season.

Bayern has played well in the paint this season, making 58.2% of its two-point shots and outrebounding opponents by 1.5 boards per game. UNICS is a team primed to do some damage from downtown.

Keys to victory: UNICS Kazan vs. FC Bayern Munich

Bayern has played well in the paint this season, making 58.2% of its two-point shots and outrebounding opponents by 1.5 boards per game. UNICS has made only 47.7% of its twos and been outrebounded by 6 per game. If Othello Hunter, Augustine Rubit and DeShaun Thomas make sure Coach Andrea Trinchieri's men control the paint in Kazan, it would be a major boost for the visitors.

UNICS is a team primed to do some damage from downtown with the likes of Isaiah Canaan, Marco Spissu, Mario Hezonja, Andrey Vorontsevich and OJ Mayo – the last of whom could debut this week. However, so far UNICS, the shots have not fallen. UNICS is 15 for 46 (32.6%) on threes through two games. If UNICS heats up on Tuesday, it could make all the difference.

Not only were swingmen Mario Hezonja and Darrun Hilliard their respective teams' leading scorers in Round 2, but the two will go head-to-head in Round 3. Both are top-level scorers with similar skills.

Marquee matchup: Mario Hezonja vs. Darrun Hilliard

Hezonja contributes more in rebounding than his counterpart with 4.5 per game this season, while Hilliard has chipped in 3.5 assists and 2.5 steals – plus 3.5 turnovers – per game. Each also tends to draw a lot of fouls due to their attacking nature and if either gets the other in early foul trouble, it could have a significant impact on the outcome. While this will be the first time the two square off, Hezonja scored 14 for Panathinaikos OPAP Athens against Bayern last season. Hilliard has yet to face UNICS.

UNICS dropped to 0-2 on Friday when it lost in overtime to AS Monaco. Mario Hezonja paced the UNICS attack with 17 points and leads the team with 15.5 points per game this season. Coach Perasovic's side could be even stronger this week if OJ Mayo makes his debut.

Bayern lost its home opener against FC Barcelona on Thursday despite 18 points from Darrun Hilliard. DeShaun Thomas added 14 and is the team's top scorer on the season with 14.5 points per game. The only previous meeting between these teams was in the 2018 EuroCup Quarterfinals, when Bayern prevailed in the best-of-three series.

One team will get its first win of the season on Tuesday when UNICS Kazan hosts FC Bayern Munich.

The Take: UNICS Kazan vs. FC Bayern Munich

### High-Gravity Matchups
In a rematch of last spring's semifinal opener at the Final Four, CSKA Moscow earned a hard-fought 100-96 victory over reigning champion Anadolu Efes Istanbul on the road in Sinan Erdem Sports Hall to avenge their 89-86 loss five months ago in Cologne. The difference for CSKA was apparent in what wound up being an equally competitive contest. Scoring around 1.05 points per possession in half-court situations in both games, CSKA tallied 15 points over 8 transition possessions on Friday compared to just 7 points over 4 such possessions back in May. Doing a better job turning defense into offense, CSKA's opportunism switching ends off steals and creating advantages off rebounds ultimately tipped the scales in its favor to stave off a comeback effort sparked by Vasilije Micic's 32 points and 7-for-11 shooting from beyond the arc for Efes.

### Barcelona's fearsome fivesome
While Efes fell to 0-2 with that loss, the champions' resume from last season offers plenty of reasons not to panic. They set the EuroLeague standard on the offensive end and came around defensively in the second half of the season to close out one of the most competitive seasons in league history as the titleholders. While Efes has stumbled early, last season's runner-up FC Barcelona has found itself on the opposite end of the spectrum. Finishing the 2020-21 regular season with the best record and top point differential, Barca has taken a head-start on achieving both feats again this year, thanks in large part to a five-man unit that is establishing itself as the league's one watch through two rounds.

Last year, the four-man unit of Nick Calathes, Cory Higgins, Pierre Oriola and Alex Abrines were on the floor for only 12% of Barcelona's possessions but produced a +79-point differential over the course of the season. That was a higher mark than 12 entire teams and one of the top such point differentials for one unit in recent history. It is still too early to buy into any surefire trends this season, but as the graphic above illustrates, the five-man group of Calathes, Higgins, Nigel Hayes-Davis, Nikola Mirotic and Brandon Davies is already a +21 through two games.

Given the continuity between these groups – indeed, Mirotic and Davies filled a lot of the wildcard minutes as the fifth player in last year's unit – it is not particularly surprising that Barcelona has been able to lean on a familiar recipe for success. However, with this group being on the floor for 27% of all Barca's possessions so far, it is worth wondering if this lineup's early dominance and heavy usage are a sign of things to come for Sarunas Jasikevicius's club and how he will adjust his rotation when Alex Abrines returns from injury.

### Looking ahead to Round 3
Conveniently, Barcelona will host the team currently sitting second in the standings, Olympiacos Piraeus, in Round 3. Allowing opponents to score just 0.72 points per possession, top-ranked among all teams through two rounds, Olympiacos has relied on a strong ability to get stops in taking home wins against Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz and Real Madrid. Going on the road now against Barcelona's lineup of doom, the Olympiacos defense will be put to the test again. It will be particularly interesting to see how Greek powerhouse approaches guarding Nikola Mirotic, who is coming off one of the most efficient individual offensive seasons in EuroLeague history and has scored an absurd 33 points over only 16 possessions to start the 2021-22 campaign.

It only took only two rounds for a marquee matchup to deliver a thriller and for one five-man lineup to emerge as a difference-maker.

Stats Review: Barca's lineup of doom

Panathinaikos OPAP Athens added another weapon to its backcourt on Sunday by signing Yogi Ferrell for the remainder of the season. 

Greens ink playmaker Ferrell

Panathinaikos OPAP Athens added another weapon to its backcourt on Sunday by signing Yogi Ferrell for the remainder of the season. Ferrell (1.83 meters, 28 years old) has spent the past five seasons in the NBA, where he played for Brooklyn, Dallas, Cleveland, Sacramento and Los Angeles Clippers. For his career he averaged 7.7 points and 2.3 assists in 259 games. Ferrell also spent time in the G-League with Long Island and Salt Lake City. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team in 2017. Ferrell will make his European basketball debut with Panathinaikos.



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So what does this 37 represent? The combined number of points that Chris Jones and Elie Okobo have scored in both of the team’s wins.

A week after Okobo poured in 23 points and Jones had 14 in an opening night victory over Zalgiris Kaunas in Round 1, on Friday night it was Jones's turn to lead the scoring with 24 points while Okobo pitched in 13 points in ASVEL’s 67-71 road victory over ALBA Berlin.

"Elie Okobo and Chris Jones are the top two choices to run the backcourt this year in ASVEL. I have full confidence in them," Parker said after the Zalgiris game.

Both guards talked after that game about the bond that is forming between them, and it showed again in Round 2 in the German capital. They both know how to take games over for significant stretches, demonstrated when Okobo scored 6 straight points in a big 0-13 run which turned ALBA’s 24-17 lead into a 24-30 ASVEL advantage.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chris Jones from way downtown with the dagger three 💦🗡️<a href="https://twitter.com/albaberlin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@albaberlin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/7DAYSMagicMoment?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#7DAYSMagicMoment</a> <a href="https://t.co/ag2V9rnu7S">pic.twitter.com/ag2V9rnu7S</a></p>&mdash; Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href="https://twitter.com/EuroLeague/status/1446566017900154887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

And it was Jones who shined in the fourth quarter. His two layups pushed the lead out to 43-57 early in the final frame. ALBA tried to come back and twice got the deficit to 7 points, only for Jones to drain three-pointers each time. The host still refused to give up and the gap was down to 6 points with just more than 2 minutes left when Jones knocked down another long three-pointer. And he then finished off the game for good with 2 free throws with 8.8 seconds remaining.

"We believe in each other. We have confidence. We’re trying to build something right now," said Jones after the road win.

To this point, ASVEL’s guards have built a pretty strong connection which is showing to be the key to the team’s undefeated start. While both can light up the scoreboard in bunches, it might be a big ask for Jones and Okobo to combine for 37 points each game. But it has worked out that way so far. Next up? No less than reigning champion and so far winless Anadolu Efes Istanbul, at home on Tuesday.

The number 37 has been a special one for LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne so far this season. It signifies a major new trust that head coach TJ Parker has quickly developed, and has helped the French club surge to a 2-0 record to start the season.

Chris Jones and Elie Okobo's special 37 connection

ALBA Berlin v LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne (2021-10-08T18:00:00.000Z)

Look back at all the action in the regular season Round 2 by checking out its best photos. Don't miss it!

Cory Higgins and Nick Weiler-Babb - FC Bayern Munich vs. FC Barcelona

Tornike Shengelia - Anadolu Efes Istanbul vs. CSKA Moscow

Mathias Lessort - Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv vs. Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade

Simone Fontecchio with Devon Hall  - Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz vs. AX Armani Exchange Milan

Oscar Da Silva and Charles Kahudi - ALBA Berlin vs. LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne

Donta Hall - UNICS Kazan vs. AS Monaco 

Bryant Dunston - Anadolu Efes Istanbul vs. CSKA Moscow

Kostas Sloukas - Olympiacos Piraeus vs. Real Madrid

Joffrey Lauvergne - Zalgiris Kaunas vs. Zenit St Petersburg

Nemanja Nedovic - Panathinaikos OPAP Athens vs. Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul

Top 10 Photos, Regular Season Round 2

Zalgiris Kaunas announced on Saturday that veteran center Joffrey Lauvergne wil be out for up to six weeks with a shoulder injury.

Zalgiris loses big man Lauvergne to injury


A day after announcing a change on the bench, Zalgiris Kaunas has learned on Saturday that veteran center Joffrey Lauvergne wil be out for the foreseeable future with a shoulder injury. Lauvergne (2.11 meters, 30 years old) had put up 8.5 points and 4.0 rebounds per game over the first two rounds in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season, both of which Zalgiris lost. He hurt his right shoulder during the second of those, at home against Zenit St Petersburg, colliding with an opponent shortly after halftime. He returned to the court but could not continue, and subsequent tests have put his recovery time at four to six weeks.  

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tough news, as Zalgiris loses Joffrey Lauvergne for the foreseeable future. Get well, <a href="https://twitter.com/1JOLOLO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@1JOLOLO</a>! ❤️‍🩹<br><br>📰: <a href="https://t.co/Bu0YPSHyep">https://t.co/Bu0YPSHyep</a> <a href="https://t.co/5njL6EVjkr">pic.twitter.com/5njL6EVjkr</a></p>&mdash; BC Zalgiris Kaunas (@bczalgiris) <a href="https://twitter.com/bczalgiris/status/1446853207414788100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> 

Lauvergne has been a fulltime starter since arriving to the club in the summer of 2020, averaging 10.7 points, a team-high 5.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists last season, when he ranked as the competition's eighth-best rebounder. 


Zalgiris Kaunas announced on Saturday that veteran center Joffrey Lauvergne wil be out for up to six weeks with a shoulder injury.


Zalgiris Kaunas v Zenit St Petersburg (2021-10-07T17:00:00.000Z)

On the road against the reigning Turkish Airlines EuroLeague champions, CSKA Moscow forward Tornike Shengelia stepped up and led his team to a thrilling 96-100 win over Anadolu Efes Istanbul, earning MVP of the Round honors. 

CSKA'S Shengelia earns EuroLeague MVP honor for Round 2


On the road against the reigning Turkish Airlines EuroLeague champions, CSKA Moscow forward Tornike Shengelia stepped up and led his team to a thrilling 96-100 win over Anadolu Efes Istanbul, earning MVP of the Round honors. 

Be sure to take a look at the best plays from Round 2 of the 2021-22 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season!

Monaco's Demahis from halfcourt! Top 10 plays, Round 2, EuroLeague

AX Armani Exchange Milan stayed undefeated by downing Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 64-78 in front of over 7,000 fans at Buesa Arena on Friday. Milan improved to 2-0 while Baskonia dropped to 0-2. Malcolm Delaney led the winners with 13 points, Shavon Shields and Devon Hall added 12 points apiece while Nicolo Melli had 10 for Milan. 

Milan shows Baskonia no mercy, 64-78

Shields also contributed 10 rebounds for a double-double. Simone Fontecchio led Baskonia with 16 points. Wade Baldwin and Rokas Giedraitis each added 14 while Steven Enoch had 10 for the hosts. Melli took over early in the game and Hall struck twice from beyond the arc to help Milan get a 17-19 lead after 10 minutes. Delaney and Hall fueled a 0-10 run which boosted the guests' margin to 30-38 at halftime. Nothing changed after the break, as Milan boosted its margin to 58-68 at the end of the third quarter and then again to 51-66 with under 7 minutes left, enough to seal the outcome long before the final buzzer. 

Shields got Milan going with a three-point play. Baldwin hit a close jumper and Fontecchio added a tip-in but Melli kept the guests ahead, 4-7. Fontecchio capped a 6-0 run with a corner triple that gave Baskonia its first lead, 10-7. Melli kept pacing Milan, and got help from Hall and Dinos Mitoglou to make Milan regain a 13-14 lead. Jerian Grant scored in penetration and Hall buried his second three-pointer, but Giedraitis and Landry Nnoko kept the hosts within 17-19 at the first of the first quarter. Giedraitis ignited the crowd with a wild triple early in the second quarter. Kyle Hines followed a dunk with a reverse layup, but Enoch kept Baskonia within 22-23. Sergio Rodriguez downed a corner three-pointer but Giedraitis and Enoch both dunked to tie it at 26-26. Giampaolo Ricci scored down low and Delaney struck from downtown, giving Milan fresh air at 26-31. Mitoglou added a tip-in and Hall sank one from beyond the arc to make it a double-digit game, 26-36. Delaney hit a jumper but Baldwin kept Baskonia within 30-38 at halftime. 

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Melli beat the shot clock with a rainbow jumper immediately after the break and soon added a dunk for a 33-42 Milan margin. Hall insisted from downtown and Shields added a reverse layup that broke the game open, 33-47. Fontecchio banked in a jump hook, and got help from Jayson Granger to give the hosts hope at 39-49. Ricci and Rodriguez each struck from downtown, before Fontecchio and Enoch tried to change things for Baskonia, bringing the hosts within 47-57 after 30 minutes.

Shields joined the three-point shootout early in the fourth quarter. Enoch and Giedraitis kept pacing the hosts but Delaney and Mitoglou kept Milan way ahead, 51-66, with under 7 minutes left. Baldwin hit a jumper and Fontecchio dunked but Shields scored around the basket and Milan started to run the game clock down. Mitoglou beat the shot clock with a bomb from downtown that sealed the outcome, 57-71, as Baskonia could not recover in the final 3 minutes. 

Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz v AX Armani Exchange Milan (2021-10-08T18:30:00.000Z)

Despite the loss, Baskonia center Steven Enoch proved he can definitely compete at this level, showing his club's trademark character.

Enoch, a new fan favorite in Baskonia

Enoch only stepped on court for 12 minutes, but he finished with 10 points and 6 rebounds - three of those on the offensive end. Enoch also ignited the crowd with his energy and with one of the most spectacular plays of the night, a high-flying alley-oop slam, proving that his connection with Jayson Granger can pay dividends in the near future.

This is what the protagonists of the game had to say after the dust settled.

Messina on win over Baskonia: "My players defended like crazy"


### Ettore Messina, AX Armani Exchange Milan
"I think my players had a very good defensive game. They defended like crazy for 40 minutes and rebounded pretty well. On offense, I think we shared the ball enough to win. It was a good shooting night for us but we kept moving the ball and made some important shots down the stretch, when it was very important. To win in Vitoria is always very difficult, and it is an important win for us. We are very, very happy. It is good that they followed my instructions - I would be in trouble if they wouldn't do that! Seriously speaking, in these days, the EuroLeague so challenging. You see there has been already a coaching change after two games. Two games, a coach has already been fired. This is not a good day for coaches, and of course, clubs are fully free to do whatever they think it is right to do, I am not questioning that. I am just saying that the EuroLeague is so challenging that every game is so important, every possession is so important, that to come out with a win tonight from my players means a lot and I am very, very grateful."



### Dusko Ivanovic, Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz
"It was a tough game. From the very beginning, Milan played well, better than us. They played defense that gave us trouble on offense from the very beginning. We didn't circulate the ball well and didn't find clear options on offense, but even with all that, we were almost in the game. We had a very bad shooting percentage, outside shooting, and needed to hit more. We needed to score 75 points to win. With so few points, it is very difficult to win. It is clear that the best way [to solve this situation] is playing better defense, run the break and find easy fast break points and the the game is much easier. I believe that we had one fast break tonight, off a steal. This is very difficult. We need to play faster to have these 10-15 easy points."



### Shavon Shields, AX Armani Exchange Milan
"They are a really tough team. They play well and were taking away what we like to do but I think everybody contributed tonight, which was good. This is a tough place to play, a tough place to win, but we got the job done. That was amazing [Baskonia fans giving him an ovation after the game]. I am really grateful for the love that they showed me. I really loved my time here. We ended with a championship, so I think I brought something pretty nice to the city, I was a part of something, so I appreciate my time here and I look back on it, it was really fun."


### Nicolo Melli, AX Armani Exchange Milan
"I am happy because we won, because the team played well. This is the most important thing. Why we came here, why we practice. This is the only thing that matters. Every time you come to Vitoria and play against Baskonia, it is very tough. The gym is a tough gym, plus with the fans back in the arena, it was a special game. But we came here and approached the game well besides maybe the first minute, when the other team impacted more the game, but we handled the game very well."



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Long-distance shooting and ball movement made the difference in this game. Milan buried 12-of-27 shots from downtown (44.4%) and finished the game with 17 assists. 

Milan shoots better, circulates the ball

On the other hand, Baskonia hit 4-of-26 three-pointers, with the lowest shooting percentage from downtown at home (15.4%) since November 13, 2014 (15.0% 3FG vs. Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade). Baskonia was also limited to just 7 assists, tying the team’s fourth-worst mark at home in EuroLeague history. 

It was a close battle for 15 minutes until Milan improved its defense and made the difference as Baskonia went scoreless for almost 4 minutes. 

Milan makes run, stays way ahead

Meanwhile, a backdoor layup by Giampaolo Ricci sparked a 0-10 run in which Malcolm Delaney and Devon Hall each struck from beyond the arc. All of a sudden, Milan led 26-36 near halftime and the guests did a great job on keeping a safe margin from that moment until the final buzzer. 

In a Turkish Airlines EuroLeague classic decided in the final minute, Olympiacos Piraeus held off Real Madrid 74-68 in a jubilant Peace and Friendship Stadium on Friday night. The win improved Olympiacos to 2-0, while Real dropped to 1-1. 

Olympiacos holds off Real, improves to 2-0, 74-68

Neither team held a lead bigger than 6 points until Olympiacos used a 9-0 run midway through the fourth quarter to open a 70-59 margin. Real answered and got within a single possession in the final minute, but the Reds held on thanks to a basket from Sasha Vezenkov who paced the hosts with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Tyler Dorsey finished with 12 points in victory. Nigel Williams-Goss scored 16 for Real, and Walter Tavares had 15 points and 6 rebounds.

The offenses were not clicking in the early going, and the teams traded baskets when they did score. Tavares, Adam Hanga and Guerschon Yabusele netted from close range for the visitors, while Tyler Dorsey sparked the Reds early. Vezenkov used a pair of offensive rebounds to add 5 points to Olympiacos's tally, and help make it 13-10 after 10 minutes. Sergio Llull hit a transition triple to open the second quarter, but the Reds answered with a 6-0 run capped by a mid-range jumper from Kostas Sloukas. Giannoulis Larentzakis hit the first three-pointer for the hosts, but Williams-Goss scored twice at the other end to keep Real close. Both offenses picked up as the teams kept trading punches. Sloukas had a long jumper and Georgios Printezis delivered his trademark floater at one end, but dunks from Tavares and Vincent Poirier got Real within a single point, 28-27, and Williams-Goss scored 5 points to put the visitors up 30-32. Olympiacos regained the lead with a corner triple from Shaquielle McKissic, but Thomas Heurtel's baseline jumper gave Real a 35-36 halftime lead.

Tavares had a three-point play to extend it to 37-41 early in the second half, but Kostas Papanikolaou answered with a triple. After Papanikolaou and Yabusele traded threes, Hanga put Real up 40-45. But Vezenkov and Sloukas combined to scored the next 6 points, all from close range, to restore the hosts' lead, and Dorsey's long-range dagger made it 54-52 after three quarters. Tavares opened the fourth quarter with an alley-oop dunk, but Vezenkov and Larentzakis hit back-to-back triples before a three-point play from Hassan Martin made it 65-56. 

A three-pointer from Dorsey then opened up the first double-digit lead of the night, and his jumper made it 70-59 with under 4 minutes to go. The hosts kept Real at bay with its defense, allowing just 4 points in the next two minutes, before Tavares dunked and Heurtel made a second-chance triple with 48 seconds left that got the visitors within 71-68. But Vezenkov scored at the other end, and the Reds prevailed.

Olympiacos Piraeus v Real Madrid (2021-10-08T18:00:00.000Z)

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