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Two qualifying matches in the Women's Euroleague conclude on Tuesday. BasketLands and Casademont Zaragoza can win the main table thanks to their confident home advantage.
The Basketlands – Besiktas match will be held at 19:30. This duel is particularly interesting from the Hungarian point of view, as the winner of the group will be DVTK. The French goalkeeper won on Besiktas's court with a score of 84-70. We can already register a double-digit difference in the first half. The biggest difference was 19 units. After 66-47, Besiktas reduced the deficit, but it will be a surprise if they manage to turn the match around in France.
The above statement is true even if Beşiktaş eliminated another big French team, Bourges, during last year’s European Cup campaign, by 19 points. However, that was a different Beşiktaş and a completely different mentality. Here, despite Jalia Hilsman’s 38 points, the virtues that worked last year were still not visible to the Turks. Basketlands shot over 50% from the field away from home, won the rebounding battle 40-36 and had five of their players score at least 10 points. Sixtin Macquet, who is 190 cm tall, scored 15 points and grabbed 6 rebounds. All the virtues that characterize French teams were on display that evening.
The winner of the match goes to Group A. Your notebook is huntingNext to Perfumerias Avenida (ESP) and Famila Schio (ITA).
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The match between Casademont Zaragoza and CSM Constanta will start at 20:00. We saw the Romanian hero Szekszárd in this pairing in the Sió Cup. We got to know a team that was still in its early stages and, despite having a big lead in the first leg of the playoffs, was unable to create a chance for itself in the second leg. After 36-36 at halftime, the scissors opened in the third quarter. For a long time, the gap hovered around 10 points, but Zaragoza lost more in the first half. There is no greater criticism, nor a positive from the winning side, than to show the biggest gap at the end of the first half of a back-and-forth duel. And that is what happened here, when Zaragoza won 75-57.
In Zaragoza, Marchesa Gatling was the most successful with 20 points, but the 14 points each from Helena Puyo and Laia Flores from the home team deserve special mention. With Vega Gimeno's retirement, the dynamics at the heart of Zaragoza's Spanish side will change somewhat, and these flashes here at the start of the season are very important indicators of how the roles will develop. It speaks for itself that at team level, they scored 13 balls and sold only 10 in the encounter in Romania, which also shows the strength of their system. There can't be as many open questions here as there are in the Basketlands-Besiktas duo.
The winner will be placed in Group C alongside title holders Fenerbahce (Turkey), Villeneuve d'Ascq (France) and KGHM Bulkowiec (Poland).
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Tuesday, September 24
19:30 Basketlands – Besiktas – Live statistics, Live video
20:00 Casademont Zaragoza – CSM Constanta – Live statistics, Live video
