Any incident tonight at the Belgrade Arena sports center in the Euroleague clash between Partizan and Real Madrid could jeopardize the possible victory of the Serbian club, warned the director of the center, Goran Grbovic, for which he asked prudence to fans.
"If an incident occurs, if an object is thrown or God forbid, someone is injured by it, the stands will be emptied in 45 minutes," Grbovic told the Serbian sports website MozzartSport.
“Support Partizan, your club, in this historic moment. Madrid is on its knees, and Zeljko's (Obradovic) team has shown what it is made of and what it can do, ”he said.
Grbovic assessed that the EuroLeague sanctions for the Madrid brawl last week were "shameful", "as if Partizan had started something, and it didn't", but added that there is no need to go back to that.
“Now a new game is coming, which should pass excellently in every aspect. Partizan really has a chance to do something big,” he noted.
He warned that the match "will be watched under a microscope" and that "the smallest possible error will be expected to impose new punishments."
Belgrade must therefore "show itself to the best of its ability", Grbovic asked the fans. "Serbia has always shown hospitality and love, we welcome and love even those we should not love," he concluded.
All the seats of the Stark Arena in Belgrade have been sold for days. The Partizan board has also asked the team's fans, nicknamed the gravediggers, to welcome Real Madrid after the serious incidents last week in the second game in the Spanish capital, which had to be suspended with a little more to go. of one minute for its conclusion due to the brawl between the players.
The Partizan coach, Zeljko Obradovic, also asked his fans to show a good attitude from the stands: "Real must be given a warm welcome and that everything happens with a sporting spirit (...), because the whole world will be watching game tomorrow."
Given the great interest in tomorrow's duel and what the sports press describes as "unprecedented euphoria", Partizan called on fans to follow that game on a big screen on an outdoor basketball court. The MozzartSport portal, which indicates that Partizan "gave two basketball lessons in the heart of Spain" and caused so much interest in the third game that "not even a football stadium would be enough to satisfy the demand" for tickets.
Partizan leads the qualifying series against Real Madrid 2-0 after winning the first game 89-87 and the second game 80-95, and if they win the third game they would qualify for the four-way final to be played on May 19 to 21 in Kaunas (Lithuania). If Real wins, the fourth game would be played in Belgrade on Thursday, May 4.
