Stadium: OAKA
Tickets: 15.000
“We need the victory against Partizan and we take the ticket to the next round” said Zelimir Obradovic after the end of the game versus Siena. Panathinaikos won the Italian team but he couldn’t take the victory with 10 points in order to have the ultimate control about the first place in his hand.
The “green” team didn’t begin well and that was something that made his mission even harder. Siena took the lead with 0-8, and at 8th minute the score was 12-27!!!
Stratos Perperoglou made the difference and with a lot of help from Sarounas Jasikevicius Panathinaikos started his comeback. In the halftime score was 43-45 and everything began from the beginning.
In the start of the second half Panathinaikos take the lead with 54-47, but in the next minutes the “greens” were stressed and that it wasn’t good for them. Siena with several points by Thordon made the 56-60 and until the end of the game Panathinaikos was in front but he couldn’t take the victory with +10 points.
Score by periods: 17-27, 43-45, 62-61, 77-76
Panathinaikos (Obradovic): Spanoulis 13(2), Diamantidis 3(1), Batiste 18, Dikoudis 6, Winston 4, Prcacin 5, Jasikevicious 12(2), Perperoglou 11(1), Chatzivrettas 5(1)
Siena (Pianigianni): McIntyre 15(3), Ilievski 10(2), Eze 6, Carraretto, Sato, Thornton 19(1), Lavrinovic 12, Ress 2, Diener Romero Stonerook 3(1)
