Olympiacos successfully defended their Euroleague basketball title with an impressive 100-88 victory over Real Madrid at the O2 Arena in London.

Olympiacos successfully defended their
Euroleague basketball title with an impressive
100-88 victory over Real Madrid at the O2
Arena in London.
Madrid, drawn as the visiting team, took the
early advantage when establishing a 17-point
lead after the first quarter but defending
champions Olympiacos showed their class in
winning the next three.
Vassilis Spanoulis top-scored with 22 points
for the Greek side, and team-mate Acie Law
also netted 20 points to push his team to
victory. Rudy Fernandez kept Madrid in the
match with 21 points, but The Reds proved too
strong in front of the 15,169 crowd.
In the earlier third place play-off match CSKA
Moscow held on to defeat Barcelona 74-73 in
a tightly contested tie and clinch a place on
the podium by a single point.
Marcelinho Huertas had a chance to win it for
Regal in the dying seconds of the fourth
quarter, but the guard missed his jump shot
allowing Moscow to hold on for victory.