Madrid’s reliability at home in the Euroleague playoffs

lthe most decisive moment arrives of the season in key Euroleague: the eight teams classified to playoffs They will fight for the four places that give access to the Final Four. One of those clubs involved in the ointment is the real Madridwho wants to achieve his fourth classification to this quote in the last five seasons. To achieve this, they will have to first overcome the Hapoel Tel-Avivalthough they will dispute their first two games at homesomething that has been helping them a lot since Laso’s stage began…

The Palace, a fortress at the moment of truth

The last chance in which the Madrid did not reach the quarters final of the most demanding competition in Europe was in the season 2011/12the first for the Basque coach on the Merengue bench. Since then, they have always been present.

Another fact that supports the whites is their effectiveness: On only three occasions (2016, 2021 and 2025) have they been unable to overcome it. That is, they have disputed 10 of the last 13 Final Foursomething really impressive. To this we must add that has not lost a knockout in which he has had court factor in favor: in the three times he has been eliminated, They did not have the home field advantage.

Fenerbahçe, Darussafakka, Partizan and Olympiacos, the only ones who have won

This is due, among other things, to the great performances of the Madrid team when they have to defend their court in this type of series: from the 2013they have won 20of the last 25 matches as local in these playoffsbeing Fenerbahce (2015/16), Darussafakka (2016/17), Partizan (2022/23) and Olympiacos (2024/25) the only ones to be able to get something positive from the Movistar Arena. With all this, they have lost only five matches.

Special attention deserves the Fenerbahcecurrent champions of the competition, who They left the Madridistas “blank” in 2016and the Partizanwhich was done with victory in the first two matches of the eliminatory of 2023 which, a posteriori, provoked a reaction in those of Chus Mateo to go back a 0-2 and win the eleventh Euroleague two weeks later.

This year, unstoppable at home: 18-1

Furthermore, to this information to take into account we must add another one that makes the equipment trained by Scariolo be very favorite to add the victory both on Wednesday and Friday: only Panathinaikos has managed to beat them in hisfief throughout the 38 days of the regular league, so, with a balance of 18 wins and only one losshave become the best venue in the competition.

Now, the real Madrid face new ones playoffstheir fifteenth in the last 16 years, and they do it against a team they already they won both games: in the first leg they won 74 to 75 in Bulgaria, while in Madrid, with the Empty Movistar Arenasomething that will not be seen in this series, they beat the Israelis by 92 to 83.