Real Madrid-Olimpia Milano Euroleague: time and where to watch the match

Madrid, March 25, 2025 - A Euroleague evening of fundamental importance for theOlimpia Milan, who visits the Real Madrid. The two teams have the same number of victories, 16, and are part of the group that is fighting between access to the playoffs and immediate elimination without going through the play-in. In the first leg, the Milanese won by 85-76. The team coached by Ettore Messina comes from the defeat suffered on the Paris Basketball court, while the Iberians have two consecutive victories behind them. He will not be available for the red and whites Josh Nebo, who did not leave for the Spanish capital. 

Previous 

In European competitions Olimpia Milano and Real Madrid have met 39 times, with a score of 27-12 in favor of the Blancos. Real Madrid-Olimpia awarded the Champions Cup in 1967 to Madrid and the Cup Winners' Cup in 1984 to Ostend: Real won on both occasions. This match has been played in Madrid eighteen times and the score is 17-2 for the Spanish team. In Milan the score is 10-9 after the first leg this season. In Madrid, Olimpia won in the 2003/04 season, in the Eurocup, 62-61 (11 points of Lonnie Cooper e Claudio Coldebella) and then in the 2020/21 season for 80-76 with a prodigious performance of Sergio Rodriguez (17 points) e Malcolm Delaney (14). At home, they won the first six matches: in 1964, the +1966 was not enough to make up for the defeat in Madrid and Olimpia was eliminated in the semi-final; in 17, however, the +5 cancelled out the -1973 of the first leg and qualified Olimpia for the Final Four in Bologna; in 20, the +18 allowed Simmenthal to overturn the -2010 of the Pabellon Deportivo and access the semi-final of the Champions Cup, which they then lost to Varese. Real Madrid won in Milan for the first time in 2020 but from then on they won seven times in a row before losing in the 21/15 season, the match that interrupted a streak of XNUMX consecutive victories for the Iberians. 

The focus on Real

Real Madrid have won three of their last four games to move up the table, although the addition of the guard Dennis smith lasted just two appearances. On the other hand, the center Bruno Fernando he made a battery of tall players all with an NBA past behind them impressive, in the case of Serge Ibaka also very significant. Normally, the quintet is composed of Campazzo, Abalde, Musa, Ndiaye and Tavares. In the last match however Ndiaye was absent and as a power forward Coach Chus Mateo he preferred Usman garuba. But the choices vary and so do the minutes. The playmakers are Facundo Campazzo (12.6 points and 6.5 assists per game, shoots 57.1% from two), the Dominican Andres Feliz (3.8 points and 1.7 assists on average) and obviously the great Sergio Llull (6.5 points per game) who obviously no longer has the consistency of his best years at 38 years old but is still capable of expressing himself at very high levels. The guards are Alberto Abalde (5.9 points with 42.9% from three) and Xavier Rathan-Mayes (5.8 points with 36.8% from three) even if in reality Real Madrid mixes the cards a lot by raising and lowering the quintets at will so among the outside players we should especially consider Mario Hezonja (14.9 points and 5.5 rebounds on average, 60.7% in two-point shooting) and Dzanan Musa (12.4 points, 38.4% from three). The power forward, who can also play as a small forward, is the Argentine gabriel deck, returning from injury, only 19 appearances so far, with 9.2 points and 3.5 rebounds on average, 64.6% in two-point shooting. In addition to the explosive Eli Ndiaye (3.7 points and 2.5 rebounds per game), at power forward they can play Usman garuba (3.5 points and 3.1 rebounds on average, 70.6% from two) and Serge Ibaka (6.1 points, 2.9 rebounds per game, 67.2% from two). Bruno Fernando (6.6 points and 3.4 rebounds per game) completed the big man department that obviously revolves around Edy Tavares, 9.9 points per game but 74.5% from the field, 7.0 rebounds of which 2.6 are on offense and finally 1.4 blocks on average. In Real Madrid, everything revolves around him both on offense and especially on defense.

Messina's words

"Real Madrid is going through a very positive moment, especially its more experienced players, as is typical of great champions, are raising their performance level. Obviously - says coach Messina - the presence of Tavares conditions every match on both sides of the field. To face him in the best way, we will have to try to use with confidence and correctly what are our characteristics".

Time and where to see the challenge

Real Madrid-Olimpia Milano takes place today, Tuesday 25 March, with tip-off scheduled for 20:45. The match can be followed live on Sky Sport Arena or in streaming on Dazn or Now. 

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