Mathieu Warnier, media365: published on Tuesday May 06, 2025 at 10:05 p.m.
After Monaco’s snatch victory against FC Barcelona, synonymous with qualification for the final of Euroligue, Matthew Strazel entrusted his relief when his teammate Mouhammadou Jaiteh already turns to Abu Dhabi and revenge to come against Olympiakos.
Monaco takes a taste in the final oven of the Euroligue. After seeing FC Barcelona return to two victories everywhere, the “Roca Team” tank in front of its audience of the Gaston-Médecin room but the very short victory acquired against the Catalans this Tuesday allows the players of Vassilis Spanoulis to validate its ticket for Abu Dhabi, who will host the event from May 23 to 25. Saw the scenario of this series and this fifth round concluded by the smallest margins, Matthew Strazel did not hide at the microphone of TV monaco that “the feeling that predominates is deliverance”. “Admittedly, there are two games left but it is all the work of a year that is a little rewarded so, necessarily it delivers,” he added. Especially after a match like that, where we fought for 40 minutes. It feels good. Mouhammadou Jaiteh, meanwhile, confided his disbelief in the face of this second qualification for the Final Four in three seasons. “It’s been so long since we’ve been talking about it, since the start of the season, admitted the pivot of the Principality club, which has not forgotten the elimination against Fenerbahçe at the end of the fifth game twelve months ago. Last year, we had a cruel defeat here. I don’t realize it and I don’t know what to say. “When taking stock of this series, Matthew Strazel assures that he was” remembering that it is never finished before a team has three victories “.
Jaiteh: “the objective is not achieved”
“We may have been too beautiful when we led two successes to zero,” said the former ASvel player. They fought, they put us in difficulty. You should never let go as long as it is not over. “As for a possible key to the match used by the” Roca Team “, Mouhammadou Jaiteh assures that” it is the commitment, the intensity “which could make the difference even if” at this level, there is no key “. With 17 points and a 3/3 to three points, Georgios Papagiannis was one of the men of the match. Which makes the Monegasque pivot say that it was “an incredible X factor” in a team that “wanted to win at 100%” even if “at one point, it could have changed in the other direction”. From now on, the Monegasques will turn to this semi-final with Olympiakos which will once again be on their way, as in 2023 in Kaunas with a defeat. While Matthew Strazel assures that his team “will have time to prepare” for this deadline, Mouhammadou Jaiteh first plans “to savor the Final Four”. But the French international does not leave the ambition aside. “Now the goal is not achieved,” he concluded. We will savor this victory and be qualified but we know that we have not yet reached the goal. After a third place in 2023 for its beginnings in the Final Four, Monaco will not go to Abu Dhabi to do figuration.
