{"id":421328,"date":"2025-01-02T11:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T10:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=421328"},"modified":"2025-01-02T11:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T10:17:46","slug":"alba-berlin-as-monaco-match-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/alba-berlin-as-monaco-match-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ALBA Berlin- AS Monaco | Match preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Round 19 of the EuroLeague features ALBA Berlin and AS Monaco, two teams with vastly different objectives this season.<\/p>\n<p>The game is scheduled for Thursday, January 2, 2025, at 8:00 PM CET at the Uber Arena in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>ALBA Berlin, sitting at the bottom of the standings with a 3-15 record, is enduring a challenging season and will seek a morale-boosting win in front of their home crowd. On the other side, AS Monaco tops the standings with a 12-6 record and aims to solidify their position at the summit.<\/p>\n<p>Monaco boasts a high-scoring offense, averaging 86.7 points per game, while ALBA Berlin struggles defensively, conceding an average of 90.8 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>The match will be officiated by Juan Carlos Garcia (Spain), Ioannis Foufis (Greece), and Sergio Silva (Portugal).<\/p>\n<p>Despite the gap in the standings, ALBA Berlin will look to leverage home-court advantage to defy the odds against an in-form AS Monaco. A game full of potential surprises awaits!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Injury Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>ALBA Berlin<\/em>: Matt Thomas and Gabriele Procida have recovered from their injuries and will be available. Louis Olinde remains doubtful due to a foot issue that sidelined him in the last league game. Justin Bean is ruled out.<\/li>\n<li><em>AS Monaco<\/em>: Nick Calathes is set to return after a knee injury kept him out in recent weeks. Jordan Loyd, fresh off a strong performance against Efes, is available. Alpha Diallo remains sidelined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Round 19 of the EuroLeague features ALBA Berlin and AS Monaco, two teams with vastly different objectives this season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":421327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-421328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/GgRpIxgXsAADpHz.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421328"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=421328"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=421328"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=421328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}