It’s getting closer. We are all waiting for the day when we will be able to enter stadiums and halls, with authentic and unrecorded noises heard on TV screens. Today (Wednesday) it was announced that Maccabi Tel Aviv will take advantage of the cultural outline and bring in up to 300 fans for the home game against Urbani Nahariya this coming Monday.
Meanwhile, the team is preparing for its return to the Euroleague. After the double victory over Hapoel Holon, and with a backlash in the form of five consecutive victories, the Israeli champion returned to the European factory. After nearly a month of postponements and constraints, the champion will meet Milan from the top of the factory tomorrow (Thursday). Omri Caspi will not take off with the Yellows for Milan, but will have a full training session. Scotty Wilbkin will play with a bandage on his finger. Just before, Yannis Sapropoulos and John Dibertolomao lined up in front of the microphones at the traditional press conference.
“We play against a quality team, a team with the second best defense in the league,” he began Yannis Sapropoulos. “We need to be defensively prepared, and not give them a chance to hurt our offensive flow. This is a war, and we need to come up with energies and concentration.”
Yannis went on to say: “The games we played in Israel put us at a good pace. We did not have one game a week, we played back-to-back games, high-intensity games. It is important that we play with high energies, and in the last games we did well.”
John Dibertolomao He added: “It’s exciting to return to the Euroleague after the break. Milan will challenge us, they play good basketball. Waiting to get back on track again. Personally, returning from injury has been a difficult process. Physically I think I am getting better, but we need to keep working. “12 Euroleague games to try and get into the playoffs. This is our first Euroleague game after a few weeks, it’s good we had games in the local team to keep fit.”
Oz laser Concluded: “In the cup we had a problem in intensity, but it has nothing to do with preparation. We train very hard, it will not affect, we all understand the importance of the game, how much energy and fighting will affect. This is a team with a lot of offensive abilities, we will have to continue the last one”.
