Two old rivals to close Round 11 – Crvena zvezda Meridianbet vs. Cibona
Crvena zvezda Meridianbet and Cibona have had numerous epic clashes in their historic rivarly, while this Monday evening they will meet again in Belgrade.
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2024/25 AdmiralBet ABA League Round 11, Monday, 9 December 2024:
CRVENA ZVEZDA MERIDIANBET - CIBONA
Where? Belgrade Arena, Belgrade
When? 20:00
Story of the game: Crvena zvezda Meridianbet and Cibona have had numerous epic clashes in their historic rivarly, while this Monday evening they will meet again in Belgrade.
Crvena zvezda Meridianbet want to continue their impressive winning run in the AdmiralBet ABA League that now stretches to 7 games. Also, they will seek to continue with just fantastic home-court results against Cibona as the Belgrade giant has so far defeated their Zagreb rivals in 20 out of 21 home games in the regional competition.
On the other side, Cibona definitely can not be happy with their results in the 2024/25 season as they have won just 2 games out of previous 10 rounds and they are sitting just a win in front of the last-placed Mornar-Barsko zlato. Yet, the Wolves have recently became significantly stronger as they signed contract with Luka Šamanić who spent part of his career playing in the NBA. Maybe Šamanić is the one who will help Cibona make much better results in the rest of the season.
Match-up in focus: We have just mentioned how important Luka Šamanić's transfer might be for Cibona, while we have already seen how much Filip Petrušev’s return to Crvena zvezda Meridianbet was important for this club.
And these two 24-year-old power forwards will have a direct duel this Monday evening.
Both players spent some time in the NBA, both players have recently returned to the league and both players are hungry to show their full potential.
Head-to-head score in the regional league: In total 34:12; In Belgrade 20:1.
