İZMİR (AA) – Burak Gören, the head coach of Aliağa Petkimspor, which guaranteed to qualify for the play-in before the last matches of the Basketball Champions League Group B, stated that they are happy to play play-in on their way to the last 16 rounds in their first season in the European cups.
Aliağa Petkimspor, which beat the Polish team King Szczecin 90-63 yesterday in Group B, where the leading team will directly advance to the group stage of the last 16 rounds and the two teams following the leader will play-in for the last 16 rounds, received a play-in visa. In the group where the last champion Unciaja directly advanced to the last 16 rounds, Filou Oostende from Belgium also qualified to compete in the last 16 rounds.
In the play-in, the second place of Group B will play with the third place of Group A, and the third place of Group B will play with the second place of Group A. The teams that will take the 2nd place in their groups will gain the advantage of the field and the team that will achieve 2 wins will enter the last 16 rounds.
The ranking will be determined according to the Filou Oostende-Aliağa Petkimspor match in the group, which will be played in Belgium on Tuesday, December 17th.
– Head Coach Burak Gören’s opinions
Aliağa Petkimspor Head Coach Burak Gören, in his statement, reminded that in November, when they had a difficult fixture, they lost 3 consecutive matches in the Turkish Insurance Basketball League, apart from the Unicaja matches in the Champions League.
Gören stated that they had a chance to win the matches in the Basketball Super League, but they could not do it, and said:
“Losing repeatedly had an impact on the team. We reacted as a team against King Szczecin by making a very serious contribution and with a very good cooperation. We need such victories to gain momentum again. We got an important result in terms of the club’s history. We started with the Champions League qualifiers. We won all the matches in the group stage, except the Unicaja matches, and earned the right to play in the last 16 rounds. We are very happy for this, and I would like to thank my players and the whole team for their efforts. “I do.”
