poor operation by Asvel, beaten at home by Milan despite De Colo and Maledon

Despite the good performances of Nando De Colo and Théo Maledon, Villeurbanne lost to Olimpia Milan (75-66), Thursday at the Décines-Charpieu Arena, during the 19th day of the Euroleague.

The half-time score was 36-32 in favor of the Italian club, 11th at kick-off, which has a record of ten wins for nine defeats while Asvel has lost eleven times for eight wins.

This result does not eliminate the Rhone club from the race to qualify for the play-offs, 15th, but has two successes from the first play-off. Over the last eight days, the Villeurbanne team has nevertheless won five times.

De Colo sets a record, five faults for Maledon

Against Milan, Pierric Poupet's players stood up to their opponents until the end. The first quarter ended with a parity result (19-19) before the Milanese took a four-point lead at half-time after winning the second (17-13).

Asvel won in the third quarter (19-15) during which it took a lead of five points (49-44) carried in particular by Nando De Colo who scored 22 points with an 8/8 in throws francs, a statistic which makes it the best in the history of the Euroleague in this exercise. De Colo also had eight fouls and dished out six assists.

For his part, Théo Maledon scored eighteen points and gave seven assists but his exit one minute and ten seconds from the end for five personal fouls was an additional handicap for his team trailing by six points to just over two minutes from the end.

And in money time, Nikola Mirotic (18 points) largely contributed to making the difference in favor of Milan.

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