Can FMP Meridian end their 5-year wait for a win in Bar?

AdmiralBet ABA League Round 13, Tuesday, 3 January 2023:

MORNAR-BARSKO ZLATO - FMP MERIDIAN

Where? Topolica Sports Hall, Bar

When? 17:00

Story of the game: In the final match of the 1^st part of the 2022/23 AdmiralBet ABA League regular season, Mornar-Barsko zlato will host FMP Meridian in Topolica Sports Center, Bar.

Mornar-Barsko zlato did not really finish the previous year in a good way as they lost the last 3 games in the regional league. The boys from Bar have therefore drooped out of the Playoffs zone and with the overall score of 4-8 they have only two wins more than the last played MZT Skopje Aerodrom. This is not something that the orange-and-blue troops hoped for at the start of the 2022/23 season, but there is still plenty of time to fix things… Starting with the match against probably the most pleasant surprise of the season FMP Meridian this Tuesday evening.

FMP Meridian have the score of 9-3 and they ended the year 2022 at the 4^th place on the standings. The Panthers are having a dream season so far and they are not planning to stop now as they have a really good chance to make it to the Playoffs for the 2^nd year in a row. Yet, they are now traveling to the town in which they haven’t scored a win since October 2017. FMP Meridian have lost the previous 4 road games against Mornar-Barsko zlato and they now want to finally end that losing streak.

Match-up in focus: Oh, we can hardly wait to watch the duel between Daron Russell (Mornar-Barsko zlato) and Trent Frazier (FMP Meridian). These two marked the 1^st half of the season as some of the best foreign players that have arrived in the AdmiralBet ABA League for the 2022/23 season.

Russell is currently the league top scorer with 27.9 points per game, while Frazier is holding the 4^th place on this list with 18.8 points per game.

Head-to-head score in the regional league: In total 7:5; In Bar 5:1.