MATCH OF THE ROUND: Who will keep the perfect score – Zvezda or Budućnost?

Saturday, 05. December 2020 at 13:19

The only two undefeated teams in the 2020/21 ABA League regular season are about to face each other on Sunday evening. It’s Crvena zvezda mts vs. Budućnost VOLI in this week’s match of the round!

Crvena zvezda mts team (Photo: Crvena zvezda mts)

ABA League Round 9, Sunday, 6 December 2020:

CRVENA ZVEZDA MTS - BUDUĆNOST VOLI

Where? Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, Belgrade

When? 18:00

Story of the game: The only two undefeated teams in the 2020/21 ABA League regular season are about to face each other on Sunday evening. It’s Crvena zvezda mts vs. Budućnost VOLI in this week’s match of the round!

We have watched so many epic games between these two teams in the past couple of years. It is enough just to write that Crvena zvezda mts and Budućnost VOLI played in the last two ABA League Finals, while a year before that they faced each other in the semi-finals.

Now it is time for a new chapter of this fierce rivalry and it comes in the moment in which both sides are undefeated in the ongoing season! Crvena zvezda mts have won all of their 8 games so far in the 2020/21 ABA League championship, while on the other side Budućnost VOLI have played 5 games so far and they have triumphed in all of them.

Still, only one team will remain undefeated after the Sunday’s derby and we are eager to find out who will that be.

Match-up in focus: There are so many direct duels that may decide the outcome of this game. Yet, probably the most important duel will be the one between Jordan Loyd (Crvena zvezda mts) and Justin Cobbs (Budućnost VOLI) as each of them is the top scorer of his team.

Also, it is interesting to say couple of words about the duel between Marko Simonović (Crvena zvezda mts) and Luka Mitrović (Budućnost VOLI). First of all, they have played both for Crvena zvezda mts and Budućnost VOLI during their careers.

Before coming to Crvena zvezda mts, Simonović played for Budućnost VOLI from 2008 to 2011 and he was the 2nd best scorer of Budućnost VOLI in the 2010/11 season.

On the other side, current Budućnost VOLI power forward Luka Mitrović played for Crvena zvezda mts from 2012 to 2017 and was the team captain from 2014 to 2017 in the period the red-and-whites have won three ABA championships in a row.

Simonović and Mitrović have won two ABA championships while playing together in Crvena zvezda mts, while now they will be on different sides in the match which is very important for their teams.

Head to head in the regional league: In total 23:21; In Belgrade 19:4.

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