There are only eight minutes left in the game and Tango Bourges Basket is 13 points behind on his opponent in the semi-finals of the Eurocup basketball. Galatasaray led most of the game and seemed calm. In front of a standing and noisy Prado audience, the Berruyères set off a fantastic comeback and overthrow the Turks in the final seconds to afford their ticket to the final against Venice, this Thursday, April 7, at 8 p.m.
The most beautiful finish we can do -Alix Duchet
If in the public, we trembled, like Virginie, supporter of Bourges, who confides to having “scared to the end“, Bourges never panicked.”Did we expect this victory, I don’t know, admits leader Alix Duchet. Especially a few minutes from the end. It was just incredible, the most beautiful finish we can do. It’s the heart, and the mind, we have a team that has a huge heart.“Alix Duchet was one of the great architects of the Berruyère revolt in the last period: it was she who inscribed the superb three-point basket that blew up the Prado and passed the Tangos in front of Galatasaray (67-65).
But this last minute of madness does not stop there. Because the Turks equalize (67-67) and even have the match point at their fingertips in the last fifteen seconds. But it’s Bourges that is doing well thanks to a daring counter-attack by Sarah Michel, left like an arrow at the forefront on the recovery of his team. She scored the two-point basket synonymous with victory three seconds from the end of the game. “I don’t even know how we get that ball back” she smiled in the mixed zone.
The Tangos have little time to recover. The final is this Thursday, at 8 p.m. against Venice. The Italians overcame Mersin, another Turkish team, in almost the same scenario as Bourges: they were behind for a long time before reversing the situation in the last two minutes. Emotions guaranteed for the final!