The order Olympic – Real Madrid For the Euroleague playoffs, it begins on Easter Wednesday (23/4/2025) at the SEF, with the Piraeus being the favorite and the Madrilen ready to sell their tomato.
Tsous Mateo and Mario Hezonia have dropped Olympiacos, but are ready to fight for a big fight for the Euroleague Final Four.
“We face the best playoffs team. Olympiacos comes from an excellent normal period in which he was able to take a position that deserved, the top. He was playing automatically, being really stable at both ends of the court. He was able to choose the shots needed, with two references to the offensive end such as Fournier and Vezenkov but based on other players who could score at a given time.
Defensively, Olympiacos is truly compact and very well trained, with a coach who always takes full advantage of a team that really plays this way, as a team, that is, a big game and a large series of playoffs, “said the Real Madrid coach.
For his part, Mario Hezonia supported: “We were all waiting at this time of the season, the key. We had a lot of ups and downs to get here, but the most important thing is to get to this point. The team is ready to face this series of playoffs. In recent years, Real’s games with Olympiacos, Madrid and Piraeus have been very important even in the regular season.
Both teams always have very good players and coaches and every time we face each other, you feel the pride of both clubs, which makes these games even bigger.
Olympiacos was the best team in the regular season, but we are in good shape and good pace because we have played a lot of games lately. I think this can help us. We have to continue to play this way. “