Two games and at the end, perhaps, the first title of the year for Tango Bourges Basket. The Berruyères basketball players face this Tuesday, April 5 the Turks of Galatasaray in the semi-finals of the Eurocup. Kick-off 8 p.m. at home, at the Prado de Bourges, which hosts all of this Final 4. The two halves take place this Tuesday, starting at 5 p.m. with a clash between Mersin (Turkey) and Venice (Italy). ). The final and the match for third place will take place on Thursday 7 April.
Leaders in the French championship, qualified for the final of the Coupe de France, the Berruyères can rely on an excellent dynamic this season, which had however started badly with the immense disappointment of not playing the Euroleague. For the first time in a quarter of a century, Bourges failed in qualifying. Returned to the Eurocup, the Tangos distinguished themselves there suffering only two defeats – including one in the first quarter against Basket Landes – for 11 victories.
“The most interesting begins and we can’t wait“said Iliana Rupert, one of the centerpieces of Bourges. “We have all experienced cutthroat matches (…) that’s what we like, this adrenaline, this pressure.” If Bourges has already won the Eurocup once (2016, at the Prado), Galatasaray has two (2009 and 2018). The Turkish team also won the Euroleague once, in 2014, against three times for Bourges. It is therefore two very fine winners of European basketball who compete for a place in the final.