Christmas game: Lietkabelis didn't let "The Cluj wonder" happen (Highlights)

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Cluj - Lietkabelis 58:68

EuroCup Group B

The match was played live at the TV studio of sportal.bg

The Bulgarian Christmas derby in the Virtual EuroCup (presented by DrWitt) - Martin Ivanov and Lietkabelis won against Georgi Yamboliev and Cluj.

The game end with a68:58 victory for the representative of the Lithuanian team.

At the beginning of the match Cluj led by up to 10 points with an outstanding defense, which is the strength of Yamboliev and Cluj this season so far - by the end of the half, however, Lietkabelis and Martin Ivanov upped the level of attack and with a high-percentage shooting from behind the three point line, they made it back into the game and turned it in his favor .

After half-time the gap became even wider: the djfferential reached 30pts difference in favor of the team with the wine-red jerseys - a final pressure for a turnaround and an attempt for a "Christmas miracles", as Georgi Yamboliev himself stated before, that he will try to make it happen, almost led to a historic turnaround in the last quarter.

Cluj was now 6 ponts behind with about 30 seconds left on the gameclock, but a Jarrell Eddy three-pointer miss for Cluj and a corresponding transition three-pointer on the other side was the dagger of the game, seconds before the end buzzer.

- in the end, Lietkabelis kept up against the final pressure and shot 33% from three throughout the game and the successful attempts, which were mainly in key moments secured the victory

Cluj started to expand their level of attack late on and reached 35% of the three in the overall statistics of the match.

With this victory, Lietkabelis climbed to fourth place but has a lot more games than the head-to-head rivals for entry into the Playoffs (5-8), but an easy match follows on paper against the last in the standings, Samsunspor, which is still without a win (0-6) - Samsunspor will also have to face Cluj, but they are in the 7th position, which sends the team to the "PlayDowns" in the current situation (3-7 wins).